ESCAPE is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the initial self-help group that was the beginnings of our charity. We are trying to raise funds to enhance our Respite provision for Families Affected by a Loved Ones Addiction.

The families we support are living highly stressful lives and even the smallest break accessing activities in their local community along with others who are experiencing similar problems can make a significant difference to their mental health and wellbeing and reduce their isolation.

Please donate any amount you can to help us to provide the respite opportunities and support these families so desperately need.

One of our beneficiaries wrote the poem below which demonstrates what the support we provide means to people:

Friends

“Just Walking Each Other Home

Connected by Chance, friends by choice

Helping each other grow stronger

Making sure they hear our voice

Hope where we felt none

Laughter to chase away our tears

Smiles we thought had gone

For some of us for years

Strength when we lost ours

Keeping down that inner scream

Safe to be vulnerable

Turning nightmares into dreams

Words I heard that touched my soul

Yet our world to you, must be unknown

“At the end of the day

We’re all just walking each other home”

Friends taking care of each other

Connected no longer alone

Just walking this path together

Walking each other home.