Datus Enabling Recovery

About Datus Enabling Recovery

DATUS Enabling Recovery is a grassroots peer-led charity that was conceived, founded and developed by a group of individuals in recovery in 2007.

All our services are delivered by individuals in recovery and we believe this is a significant factor in our success at engaging with stigmatised groups. Being peer-led means that DATUS, while still delivering a professional service, ensures that representative from its core beneficiaries, are not only represented but active at board level and within the staff team.

DATUS was born out of supporting individuals who suffer from addiction. We have established a versatile system of independent and anonymous involvement and consultation.
We believe that if you intend on benefiting a group of people, then those individuals should be as actively involved as possible in the design and delivery of the support offered to them. We believe in the principal of “no decision about me, without me”.

As a group of individuals we seek positive change, a sense of hope and optimism. We need more than fancy brochures and web sites, only to then engage with a support service and feel like a number being processed through a machine driven by contractual targets.

This principal and the lived experience of people accessing services that were not person-centred led to the creation of DATUS in 2007.