Estimated Price

£2,000

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Project Summary

Freedom Fighters vision is to address the urgent need for trauma-informed care and recovery services in Ayrshire and across Scotland. We offer counselling and recovery support to the disadvantaged, most vulnerable and isolated due to their unresolved trauma and mental health issues. Our purpose is to create opportunities for those who have suffered trauma or addiction and to find healing, release, and restoration through one-to-one counselling. We also offer support groups and workshops.

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Project Description

We held a lived experience panel where we invited service users, volunteers and those in the local community to come and share what activities they would like to see delivered here at the Trauma Recovery Hub. The project the group came up with was: FREEDOM FIGHTERS GUIDE TO SURVIVING AND THRIVING THROUGH TRAUMA. A year long, 3 phased project focusing on creatively addressing these three outcomes: 1 Uncover the pain playing out in their story 2. Recover what's been lost. 3. Find a life worth living. We aim to offer creative opportunities to achieve these outcomes through filmography, creative writing and equine therapy. The panel suggested we film a docu-series around the real life stories of those accessing our services who've not just survived but thrived through the traumatic things that have happened to them. The funding will go towards creative practitioners: a film-maker, a creative writer and a horse owner, each delivering 3 sessions each at £200 per session so a total of £1800 and £200 for materials and teas, coffees and refreshments. This ensures specialist skills are brought directly into the community while also supporting the local economy and building long term creative capacity. Each art form provides a different route for participants to process trauma, giving multiple ways to engage depending on individual needs and stregths. These costs represent fair industry rates, ensuring quality and sustainability.

The community we support is mainly the recovery community, individuals recovering from alcohol, drugs or adverse childhood experiences (ACE's) which leads to issues later on in adulthood. Even though we work mainly with the recovery community the trauma recovery hub is all inclusive to the whole community and welcomes everyone. Our aim is to reach as many people as possible in the community who are experiencing loneliness, isolation and poor mental health.