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I began UROCK youth Company in 2005 when I realised Young people benefit from an arts environment which supports them socially. They come to our group from across the city and the educational primary /secondary divide. Being part of the company means they make full commitment to the idea of exploring “The Arts” they try everything and they attend for 3 hours every Saturday morning. Sessions are based upon creative approaches and every student is encouraged to think independently and…

Radio 590 is your Peterborough City Hospital Radio. Broadcasting 7 days a week, daytime and evening to 610 patient bedside TVs on audio channel 28.

Radio 590 can also be listened to at Costa Coffee, The Transport Lounge, WH Smith, Toujours and within the Atrium Reception area.

Why not call 01733 676777 to request a tune and dedicate messages or chat to us all live on air…

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Mine's a pint of hypocracy please landlord..

Thanks to all of those ChangeMakers who made it to the first meet-up earlier this week.

Among other things, we used the ‘open space’ discussion to talk about:

• The CSR Forum developing in the city and how this could link in with the existing efforts of businesses and volunteer groups, for instance the Rotary Club and Churches Together.

• Peterborough in Transition, a new project being spearheaded by The Green Backyard and…

Talk about 'recovery groups' can often lead to a discussion of 12 step based groups, SMART groups, service-user groups and so on. These types of groups are fairly easy to understand from the ‘outside’ and thanks to the media portrayal of some recovery groups, there can sometimes be a narrow view of them. They can follow particular formats, they can have certain traditions or rules and they can aim for specific outcomes that may be measurable.

But there are also those recovery groups…

If you've got a moment, why not take a look around the Places for All website?

Hosted by a team of University of Sussex researchers and arts practitioners funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, working in partnership with Citizen Power, the website brings together pictures, words, film and theatre drawn from Peterborough residents’ stories.

The team have been collecting photographs, memories…

Tuesday 17 January saw several members of the Citizen Power team descend onPeterborough Town Hall for the …

Do you live in Bretton, or know someone who does?

Could you spare 15 minutes to help Citizen Power, the RSA and local partners to improve wellbeing and connections in Bretton?

Please fill in this short survey [https://www.s2.onasurveys.com/register/register_user.php]…

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, YOU KNOW!

ONE thing I find astonishing about Peterborough and its planners is the way the latter have failed to make the most of the River Nene that flows through the city. Or at least they have failed to make the most of it for the majority of the population...…

Michaela Jones contributes this week’s guest blog exploring how social anxiety can act as a barrier to recovery. Michaela is Community Director for Wired into Recovery.

Read it and more @: http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/category/recovery/ 

Check out my new blog on our work in Peterborough: http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2011/uncategorized/serendipitous-recovery/

I can't begin to tell you how brilliant the 'expressing recovery' activities have been.…

I was at an interesting social media roundtably thing on Tuesday all about whether connecting neighbours can make areas better places to live.  In the context of this, we discussed how sometimes social media, i.e. leaving posts or comments on websites, blogging and tweeting can be a daunting thing to do, particularly if you hold a public office and you've got a media team who at arms length from the action 'do that' or if you are in an organisation with a strict communications policy when…

It has been quite an eventful week for the Recovery Capital project in Peterborough which accounts for the semi-radio silence on the blog front.  But as the week draws to a close I thought I would share some of the excitement and ease you into the weekend.

On Monday I took six people in recovery to the Key Theatre in Peterborough to meet the writer, Director, p…

The second guest blog to the RSA Recovery blog has been contributed by Russell Webster. Russell explores the role of methadone in recovery and the different attitudes towards it.

What do you think?

Add you thoughts to the blog at http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2011/recovery/holiday-methadone/

In remarkable paper Transforming Behaviour Change there are many parallels to recovery from, for the purposes of my blog, addictions. The author, Jonathan Rowson opens with a request for a deeper discussion about the increasingly important relationship between neuroscience, behaviour…

Massive overcrowding, high rates of re-offending, and an estate largely built for a Victorian-variety punishment and retribution. Not the most stable of foundations on which to build a ‘rehabilitation revolution’ or even the watered down proposal for working prisons. They're not new challenges either. But the responses are getting interesting!

I’m sure we all have our own idea about what prisons are for, usually falling within the trusty ideals of punishment, retribution or…

Link to the original blog on the RSA website - http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2011/11/01/introducing-amie-recovery-interns/ 

This is my very first blog post (inside and outside of the RSA) and it seems fitting that my opener is on a subject about which I am fiercely passionate.

As one half of the Recovery Capital Project internship team, my focus over the next 3 months will be to come up…

We have launched a new RSA blog dedicated to the varied subject of recovery.

Please follow the link below to read, reflect, and respond to our first contributor, Professor David Best.

The blog, entitled "Lions Lead by Donkeys," is a challenge to all involved, at all levels, with respect to…

You may have heard that CRI have won the tender contract to provide all adult drug treatment services across the city. CRI already work in the city providing the Drug intervention programme and have made themselves available to answer any questions you have about what the new recovery services will look like from 1st January 2012.

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