Richmond Fellowship has been making recovery reality for more than 55 years. They have come a long way since those early days when they set up with one therapeutic community in Richmond, Surrey.
They are now one of the largest voluntary sector providers of mental health support services in England.
Most recently they have grown their organisation into a partnership of like-minded charities, working together to inspire individual recovery nationwide. Their new group, called Recovery Focus, officially launched in October 2015.
Its membership is made up of 2Care, who joined in 2011, CAN and Croftlands Trust, who joined in 2013, My Time, who joined in 2014, and Aquarius, who joined in 2015.
Richmond Fellowship is a registered charity, a company limited by guarantee and a registered provider of social housing.
In 2011, 2Care, a voluntary sector provider of mental health rehabilitation and recovery specialising in supporting people with high and complex needs, joined Richmond Fellowship. In 2015, their partner My Time, became a fully integrated division of Richmond Fellowship. It’s an award-winning, pioneering and innovative service user led multi-lingual community mental health service provider working in the Midlands and the Isle of Wight. And in 2016 their Cumbrian-based partner Croftlands Trust also became a fully integrated part of Richmond Fellowship.
All organisations are part of Recovery Focus, a new group of expert charities being built to inspire individual recovery nationwide. By bringing together partners with strong individual services, innovative approaches, and flexible local presence, they can draw on a wide range of expertise from around the UK.They make this a reality not just at the local level but at the personal level too.
They have a track record of more than 200 years of developing and running personalised services that work with people with mental health, substance misuse and other complex needs to achieve their ambitions. Each partner organisation has its own rich history of success but together they believe they can lead the way in evidence-based recovery pathways that they can tailor to meet local and individual need.
Richmond Fellowship is overseen by the group Board which leads, directs, monitors and controls its activities as part of the wider group. Operationally, Richmond Fellowship is led by two managing directors.
