Decision details

That the Cabinet Member for Health and Communities :

a)   Agrees to the award of Recovery Month Grants to a total value of £7,482 for Recovery Month activities to six organisations as outlined in section 4.7 of the report.

          b) Notes the grants will be funded from the Public Health Grant         for activity taking place across the county during Recovery month    in September 2022.

The six applications meet the criteria for Recovery Month grant funding and the events can promote recovery activities in Derbyshire in Recovery Month in 2022

Alternative options considered were:

·        Do nothing - one option would be to not run the Recovery Month grants program this year. This would however mean that Derbyshire does not take part in a nationally recognised event promoting recovery, and the associated benefits to people in recovery from Substance Misuse living in Derbyshire would be lost. If Recovery Month events do not go ahead, recovery, and celebrating the achievements of people in recovery, will not be promoted on a significant scale, stronger recovery communities will not be built and associated stigmas will not be challenged.

·        Another option would be to provide grants to host large scale events as part of Recovery Month, as was done prior to 2019. As aforementioned however, this was resource intense and time consuming to organise. In addition, smaller recovery organisations from other parts of the county would be struggling to take part in a meaningful way, and recovery would not be promoted county-wide.