New Roads Ahead is built for four groups of people — and we help you work out if it's the right fit.
Whether you're working through alcohol or drug use, early in recovery or several months in, NRA gives you a group, a workbook, and a set of tools to hold steady and build forward.
Referrals come through VIA Recovery Charity and other drug and alcohol services — and you can self-refer too.
If you're on a sentence plan or a drug rehabilitation order, NRA is designed to sit alongside probation, not on top of it. The programme can form part of structured reintegration.
Probation officers can refer directly.
NRA works as part of GP referral pathways — particularly for people whose health is being affected by early addiction, low mood, poor routine, or social isolation.
Your GP or referring clinician can get in touch to discuss suitability.
If services haven't reached you, or you've stepped back from them, NRA can still be a door you walk through. You don't need to be in another programme to start with us.
Self-referral is welcome. So is a referral from a family member, friend, or community worker.
That's fine. You don't have to be certain before you get in touch. We have a pre-engagement conversation with every potential participant to check fit, understand what else is going on, and make sure we're the right next step — for them and for the group.
If we're not the right fit, we'll help signpost to something that is.
Whichever door fits — referral or conversation — here's where to start.