What Scottish Recovery Consortium does

Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is a Scottish registered charity (Charity No. SC041181) and company limited by guarantee that supports, represents, and connects addiction recovery across Scotland. Headquartered at 30 Bell Street, Glasgow, it operates nationally — not regionally — and works with recovery at every level, from grassroots communities and lived experience individuals through to Scottish Government policy. Its mission is operationalised through a portfolio of distinct but interconnected programmes rather than a single product: a national network of 41 recovery communities and Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (LEROs); the Lived Experience Representative Network (LERN); the National Recovery Advocacy Network (NRAN); a Moodle-based CPD-accredited Learning Platform offering five courses; MAT Standards Experiential evaluation; Prison and Healthcare Recovery work; research hubs covering Women in Recovery, Digesting the Evidence, and Recovery in Scotland; and the Charter of Rights for People Affected by Substance Use.

SRC runs a small staff team of approximately 13 people under CEO Tracey McFall, supported by a volunteer base of 398 active volunteers contributing roughly 2,789 hours weekly across Scotland. Its flagship events — Recovery Walk Scotland (annual, ~2,000+ participants) and the National Recovery Conference (launched June 2025 in Perth, also ~2,000 attendees) — provide mass visibility and grassroots engagement, while the Cross-Party Manifesto for a Recovery-Oriented Scotland 2026–2031 (launched March 2025) positions SRC at the policy interface. Free services include all training, resources, publications, and community events, eliminating price as a barrier to participation.

The revenue model is grant-funded rather than commercial. SRC is financed through charitable grants from bodies including the National Lottery Community Fund, Corra Foundation, Scottish Government (including the National Development Fund), and Public Health Scotland, with no disclosed commercial product revenue. The organisation operates across a hybrid segmentation: primary beneficiaries are individuals in recovery (a persona segment), while key institutional stakeholders include LEROs, Scottish Government departments, Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs), Public Health Scotland, and the Scottish Prison Service. Go-to-market is community-led and rights-based, relying on co-production, lived experience voice, and national representation rather than direct sales.

Name

Scottish Recovery Consortium

Legal name

Scottish Recovery Consortium

Website

https://scottishrecoveryconsortium.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Scottish Recovery Consortium is a Scottish charity that supports, represents, and connects addiction recovery across Scotland. Through programmes such as LERN, NRAN, MAT Standards Experiential, and a CPD-accredited Learning Platform, it bridges grassroots recovery communities, lived experience organisations, and national government policy.

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akta.pro rank

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (813410), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Substance Use Recovery & Harm Reduction Support Services (BPAGAEAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Peer Support, Recovery Coaching & Sober Living Services (HLAFACAN)

Keywords

• Addiction recovery support
• Recovery community development
• Peer recovery advocacy
• Recovery training programs
• Substance use recovery

Headquarters

HQ city

Glasgow

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Charitable Funding and Grants: SRC operates as a registered Scottish charity (Charity No: SC041181) funded through grants and partnerships with government bodies including Scottish Government, National Lottery Community Fund, and Public Health Scotland.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Scottish Recovery Consortium is a Scottish charity that supports, represents and connects recovery communities across Scotland. It delivers training and CPD through the SRC Learning Platform, develops and coordinates Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (LEROs), runs advocacy and policy programmes (LERN, NRAN, Charter of Rights, Rights in Recovery), and convenes national flagship events such as Recovery Walk Scotland and the National Recovery Conference.

Product overview

Scottish Recovery Consortium operates as a nonprofit organization supporting recovery from substance use across Scotland, offering a diverse portfolio of interconnected programs and services rather than a unified software product. Core offerings include: the SRC Learning Platform (Moodle-based CPD-accredited online learning with 5 courses); LERN (Lived Experience Representative Network) for gathering collective lived experience voices; NRAN (National Recovery Advocacy Network) for rights-based advocacy; and LERO (Lived Experience Recovery Organisations) national group. The organization provides research hubs including Women in Recovery Hub (6 themed research areas), Digesting the Evidence (15-year evidence review), and Recovery in Scotland (national mapping of recovery communities). Events include the flagship annual Recovery Walk Scotland and National Recovery Conference. Training programs include Rights in Recovery sessions and the Recovery Development Programme. The organization also runs Freed Up Events (alcohol/drug-free social events), MAT Standards Experiential work, Prison and Healthcare Recovery support, and advocacy campaigns including My Recovery Gave Me and Rewriting The Media.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 2,174 people supported every week by recovery communities
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• REACH AdvocacycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Partnership to deliver the National Recovery Advocacy Network (NRAN), combining rights-based approach, advocacy, and lived experience skills to train qualified rights-based advocates embedded within independent advocacy organisations across Scotland.
• Scottish Prison ServicecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for 'Recovery from Within' activities, bringing lived experience, prison service and healthcare closer together to achieve recovery vision for Scottish prisons.
• Public Health ScotlandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for MAT Standards Experiential work - SRC trains and supports locality interviewers with lived experience to gather feedback and feed experiential data into national Quality Improvement Programme.
• Scottish GovernmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment partner for MAT Standards implementation, Residential Rehabilitation Working Group, and various policy initiatives including Rights, Respect and Recovery strategy implementation.
• SHAAP (Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on Cultivating Cultural Recovery Pathways for Black and Asian Communities event in Edinburgh, bringing together policymakers, practitioners and lived experience representatives.
• Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs (SFAD)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on Rewriting the Media project to explore media portrayal of addiction and recovery, and ongoing partnership on advocacy work.
• BAC-INsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Cultivating Cultural Recovery Pathways event focusing on recovery pathways for Black and Asian communities in Scotland.
• WithYou ScotlandsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerHosting the Charter of Rights for People Affected by Substance Use on their website as the official online home for the charter.
• Various Recovery Communities and LEROscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork of 41 recovery communities and multiple LEROs across Scotland - co-producing national conference and ongoing recovery initiatives.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Cranstoun: Cranstoun is a UK charity providing recovery, criminal justice, and substance use services. Its combination of recovery community support and criminal justice pathways closely mirrors SRC's prison recovery and community development programmes.
• REACH Advocacy: REACH Advocacy is a Scotland-wide independent advocacy network and SRC's strategic co-development partner on the National Recovery Advocacy Network (NRAN). Both organisations share a rights-based, lived-experience-anchored approach to advocacy and training.
• Turning Point: Turning Point is a UK social enterprise delivering substance use, mental health, and recovery services nationally. Its scale and integrated recovery support model make it a direct comparable for SRC's national-coordination-plus-direct-service portfolio.
• Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs (SFAD): SFAD is a Scotland-based nonprofit supporting families affected by substance use. It directly partners with SRC on the Rewriting the Media project and operates a comparable lived-experience-led advocacy and support model within the Scottish recovery ecosystem.
• Change Grow Live (CGL): CGL is one of the UK's largest substance use charities delivering recovery services under contract to local authorities. While much larger than SRC, it competes for the same Scottish commissioning relationships and serves overlapping recovery populations.
• Phoenix Futures: Phoenix Futures is a UK charity specialising in residential and community-based recovery from drug and alcohol dependence. Its recovery-focused programme model parallels SRC's community development and prison-to-community pathways work.
• WithYou: WithYou is a UK-wide substance use charity providing recovery support, treatment, and family services. It hosts SRC's Charter of Rights online and operates comparable recovery-focused services across the UK, making it a closely aligned direct peer.
• BAC-IN: BAC-IN is a Scotland-based recovery organisation focused on Black and Asian communities. SRC partners with BAC-IN on culturally-specific recovery pathways, and it shares SRC's lived-experience-led, community-organising approach.
• Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP): SHAAP is a Scottish medical-professional advocacy organisation addressing alcohol harm. It co-hosts events with SRC such as the Cultivating Cultural Recovery Pathways initiative and operates within the same Scottish policy and recovery advocacy space.

Broad incumbents

• Faces & Voices of Recovery (FAVOR): FAVOR is a US-based national recovery advocacy organisation focused on mobilising recovery communities and changing public policy. While operating in a different geography and policy environment, its mission and recovery-community organising model parallel SRC's LERN and Recovery Walk Scotland work.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/srconsortium
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/ScottishRecovery0
• Facebookfacebook.com/ScottishRecoveryConsortium
• Instagraminstagram.com/scottishrecoveryconsortium
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/scottish-recovery-consortium

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