The EDGE is a social enterprise that provides a welcoming and supportive community space, promoting community-led recovery to support people to turn their lives around. Additionally, The EDGE is run by individuals who are on this challenging journey themselves.
The EDGE Recovery hub is managed by Gail and the Cafe managed by Sarah, both with lived experience of addiction and alcoholism. The other members of staff work in the kitchen, baking the fantastic homemade goodies that are sold on site.
The EDGE receives no statutory funding, but luckily, they have someone on their Volunteer Board of Directors who is able to write a funding application on the back of an envelope and be successful! Their aim for the coming year is to become self-supporting through the Cafe, outside catering and hiring of the meeting room.
They are passionate about Recovery, their own and others, and food. The EDGE likes to think of itself as a yes place. In the five years they have been open, and more so since the pandemic, the Cafe has become more of a community hub, although still with its focus on recovery from addiction and mental ill-health.
The Recovery hub offers a wide range of regular activities, from Tai Chi and Yoga to drumming, games, quilting or knitting. There’s also an Edgy Men’s and Edgy Women’s group.