Philosophy.

StreetScene is a registered charity, set up in 1990. It's main purpose is to help people suffering from the disease of addiction.

StreetScene is made up of men and women who are dedicated to this aim. We believe that everyone who has this disease deserves the opportunity to change their life. That we are here to offer hope, help and opportunities for this change to take place and begin to repair the damage caused by addiction.

We believe that people have the ability to change and are entitled to a quality of life. We believe that we can support people in this change with knowledge, experience, respect, care for people's needs, and a safe and secure environment.

We believe that addiction is a huge problem throughout society. All of us at StreetScene do what we do because we want to make a difference. As a charity, we are not set up to make a profit, but to use all our resources to provide the best provision we can, with quality, care, respect, and the ability to treat each person as an individual at their time of need.

Most of the staff have personal experience of both addiction and recovery - either their own or a family member - and are involved in this work because they care about individual's battles against this disease.

Aims & Objectives

Our aim is one of continual improvement. Continual monitoring of what we do, looking for new ways to meet people's needs effectively. We also aim to expand our services to meet needs which so far we haven't tackled. All of this with the heolp of the people who come to our units telling us what we can do to improve, whilst always remaining focussed on our main aim of helping peple suffering from addiction to recover.

StreetScene is a charity funded by community care money and donations from various charitable trusts. The charity is run by a Board of Trustees and a Steering Committee who are responsible for all policies, finance, employment matters, and the premises run by StreetScene. During your time here, you will meet the Trustees, one of whom visits each unit every month. Please feel free to ask them or tell them anything you feel about the running of the unit.