About Bridge
On April 1st 2026, Bridge became part of Inspire.
Inspire is a collaboration between six community organisations, offering inclusive and accessible support to help anyone in West Northamptonshire make informed choices about their wellbeing.
Inspire is here to provide you with options around your alcohol and drug use. Whether you want to quit entirely, reduce your use, or learn how to be safer, we can support you. We can also provide support to those affected by someone else’s substance use.
We take pride in offering a safe, inclusive and easily accessible service for everyone. Whether you’re reaching to a drug and alcohol service for the first time or are a regular visitor, you’ll find it simple to access the resources, information, and treatment you need.
Bridge is a lived-experience recovery organisation (LERO). More than 90% of our staff have personal experience of drugs or alcohol misuse: either their own or a close family member. That experience is incorporated into everything we do and it has helped us grow to be the agency we are today. Starting in 2005 as a small peer mentoring service we have grown to over 20 staff providing recovery services including activities provision, housing and employment advice, support from recovery workers, voluntary opportunities and, of course, peer mentoring.
WHAT WE BELIEVE:
This project is based on several ideas:
- We believe that people who have experienced substance misuse problems have a role to play in helping others. Their experience and understanding should not be wasted when it can be used to support people trying to recover from their own substance misuse.
- We believe that the experience and learning that mentors gain should be a valuable aid to them in their personal or career development.
- We believe that peer support is a useful addition to other interventions and not necessarily a replacement for them.
- We do not believe that any particular approach to helping people is better or worse than others.
- We believe that recovery is something that people do themselves. We will do our best to help but we do not take responsibility for the outcome whatever that may be.
- We believe that physical and other activities can be a useful aid to recovery.
- We believe that other organisations and individuals are doing valuable work in this field and we wish to work with them whenever appropriate.
Our Partners
Turning Point is a leading health and social care organisation. With over 60 years’ experience of providing services for people with complex needs, including those affected by drug and alcohol use, mental health problems or those with a learning disability. Turning Point is a social enterprise, reinvesting their surplus to provide support for those who need it the most.
West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) is the local authority responsible for delivering public services and governance across West Northamptonshire. Public health, as part of this remit, focuses on protecting and enhancing the health of the population through prevention, education, policy, and targeted interventions.
Framework has been providing housing and support services to homeless and vulnerable people since 2011. In that time it has invested heavily to increase the quantity and quality of accommodation available to homeless people. As a charity and registered social landlord working across the East Midlands, Framework delivered housing, health, employment, support and care services to around 18,000 people in the year to March 2023.
Family Support Link is a small charity that has provided support for families affected by someone else’s drug or alcohol use across Northamptonshire since 2007. We provide 1:1 and group support to both adults and children/young people harmed by someone else’s use of substances, along with a telephone helpline and events and activities in the school holidays, and group and 1-to-1 parenting support for parents who use substances themselves.
Double Impact supports people to recover from drug and alcohol dependence and reintegrate into the community. We specialise in generating full recovery through peer support, learning, volunteering and employment.
All referrals are now taken through the main Inspire Website.
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