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2 years drink and drug free 🏆❤️🏆 Hi I’m Tom, and I’m in recovery. I am now 2 years clean. From the age of 14 up until 25 I used drugs heavily. What started as a bit of fun soon took complete hold of my life. I couldn’t live without substances on a daily basis. I hit many low points in my life thinking things can’t get much worse than this but they always did. Towards the end of my using I was having regular seizures, I was as thin as a skeleton, and my self-worth was nonexistent. I had no direction in life, no purpose or ambition, I was ruining my families lives. I had succumbed to the reality that I was probably going to die this way. That’s when I reached out to Jericho House. I was very lucky that 6 weeks later after calling up Jericho everyday I was offered a bed. I walked into Jericho house a broken boy with no idea what to expect. I was so scared about the journey ahead of me and the change I would have to go through. I was greeted by the friendliest people with hugs all round and so much support from the moment my foot stepped through that door. During my time at Jericho house I was taught to love myself through the help of others loving me. I was taught to be myself I didn’t have to wear a mask anymore and try be something I’m not. I was scared that because of my age I wouldn’t be able to get through this and maybe I didn’t have it as bad as others. But, I was told addiction doesn’t discriminate it doesn’t matter how old you are, what your life circumstances are, where you’ve been, or what you’ve done addiction brought all of us in there to the same place… our knees. That gave me hope for the first time in years! So, I completed the 6 months, I did my 30 days of aftercare, then I went onto volunteering at Jericho house giving back to the place that had saved my life. They told me life would just keep getting better and they were right! Some of the jericho lads formed a band I managed to get involved in that. I was offered a voluntary roll at the living recovery roasters where I now roast coffee to support Jericho House. I’ve recently got my first part time paid job roll at safe and sound as a youth mentor which I am loving, I have amazing relationships with my family today, I have the best most supportive friends. My life has completely changed and it’s all thanks to Jericho house! Thank you to my Jericho family! #livedexperiencerecoveryorganisation #communitysupport #unityisourstrengh #HopeLivesHere #thankyouforyoursupport #ChangeIsReal Foundation Derbyshire TOYOTA The National Lottery Community Fund Living Recovery Roasters Derby Homes Derby City Council BBC Derby Rachie Kay @top fans

Thanks to Becky Measures and the team at BBC Derby for having us in again ❤️ We thought it was just a recorded radio section we were doing but turns out they were putting together a bit of a video recording for east midlands today ( regarding Jericho winning the ‘community make a difference award 2025 ) We are told it will probably be going out after main news on Tuesday night ( if you want to check us out ) 😁 Rachie Kay and Tom were awesome 👏👏👏 Foundation Derbyshire TOYOTA Living Recovery Roasters Derby City Council The National Lottery Community Fund Sons of Jericho Derby Homes BBC Music Introducing

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A MASSIVE THANK YOU 🎸 We want to send a huge thank you to Gav and the entire team at Practical Intelligence (PI Guitars) for building a beautifull guitar for us ♥️ An equally massive thank you goes to Barrd Partnership for generously sponsoring a guitar for Jericho House. Your support means more than words can say. The fact that the guitar is ethically sourced and built using recycled materials perfectly reflects the values of sustainability, care, and responsibility that we all share. This partnership is a powerful example of what happens when community, creativity, and compassion come together. We are incredibly grateful to be part of it. Thank you from all at Jericho House drug treatment project Derby 🤘♥️🙏♥️🤘 #thankyouforyoursupport #unityisourstrengh #HopeLivesHere #communitysupport #livedexperiencerecoveryorganisation