ReCoCo is a radical mental health recovery college, entirely peer led and coordinated. Our courses, workshops, groups and events have been developed and run by people who themselves have used services and have their own stories of hope and recovery. This means that all of our staff have lived experience in some form or another.

Almost all facilitators for our courses and drop-ins come up from our student body and many of our courses and drop ins are developed with/by our students and volunteers. As an organisation we do not concentrate on diagnosis or pathology, and instead focus on the individual and their needs, helping them to realise the strengths they already have in surviving adversity, and to build upon these.

Furthermore, we do not discharge, students can come and go as they need and are able. They can even become volunteers, Therapeutic Enablers, facilitators and more!

We believe that the best placed person to help, is often someone who has had a similar experience to your own. Throughout the college we provide opportunities for education and peer support, creating spaces for mutual learning, developing hope and aspirations and realising and building upon existing strengths and talents.

We try to create a place for everyone, somewhere those who have felt isolated by their mental distress can find belonging, acceptance, connection and friendship.

We believe in the power of peer-support and lived experience and provide a focus for peer leadership, peer support and recovery orientated practice.