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Media Breakfast at the Financial Times – Forward CEO shares his reflections on the first session

Generously hosted by the Financial Times, The Forward Trust led our first media breakfast on Thursday 3rd April.

Recognising the exceptional: Forward Staff & Volunteer Awards 2025

The Forward Trust were delighted to celebrate our incredible staff and volunteers yesterday (9 April 2025) at our annual staff awards.

Celebrating Employability and Entrepreneurship: The Forward Trust’s Annual Dragon’s Den Event

In collaboration with the Financial Times, The Forward Trust’s enterprise team hosted their second ever ‘Dragon’s Den Event’ today (Thursday 3 April 2025) at the Financial Times offices in London. The event featured three of Forward’s enterprise clients who each pitched their own business to a panel of ‘dragons’, which included Forward’s Chair of Trustees, Tony Adams.

Celebrating Community Garden Week at The Forward Trust

As the first week of April marks Community Garden Week (April 1st – April 7th), I am excited to celebrate the power of gardening in transforming lives, fostering well-being, and strengthening our connection to nature. This annual event shines a spotlight on community gardens and their role in bringing people together to cultivate not just plants, but also a sense of purpose, peace, and sustainability.

• Recovery support
• Mental health support

Forward connecting more with RECONNECT

In 2021, The Forward Trust were given an opportunity to deliver East of England RECONNECT services across the Norfolk & Suffolk. Soon after, this also included Essex.

• Recovery support
• Drug & alcohol support

HMP Millsike: Forward Trust working in partnership with MITIE and People Plus

This week marks a landmark in the history of The Forward Trust. We have been empowering people and families to break the cycles of addiction or crime to transform their lives since 1991 – and we are now proud to be part of the launch of the latest new prison to be opened in England – Millsike in North Yorkshire.

• Drug & alcohol support
• Family support
• Employment support
• Forward Connect (peer-led community)
• Housing & resettlement support
• Mental health support
• Probation support
• Recovery support

Back Together Again! You’re invited to the Clouds House reunion June 2025

You’re invited to the annual meeting of minds on Saturday 14 June 2025 at the Wiltshire homestead for the Clouds House reunion.

Wastewater Analysis shows shocking spike in Ketamine consumption 

Since 2021, the Home Office Wastewater Analysis Programme (WWAP) has taken samples from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) across England and Scotland to calculate the quantity of illicit drug consumption. 

Beyond International Women’s Day – Enhancing opportunities for women at Forward

In this new blog, Rosie Watson, Forward’s Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Coordinator, talks about the important changes we’re implementing across the organisation to improve support for women at Forward, inspire future leaders, and enhance the overall accessibility of our services and support provision for our female clients. 

Tackling gambling-related harm as a public health concern

Yesterday, Forward was proud to participate in a conference presented by Breakeven in Southend-on-Sea to raise awareness of gambling-related harm as a public health concern.