SUIT - Service User Involvement Team

13/02/2026

Our Women's Peer Support Group are having a great time every Monday taking part in yoga, which is delivered by yogawithcate.com
The yoga will continue for the next 4 weeks if you would like to come along and take part.
The group runs from 12:30pm - 2:30pm and is available to anyone open to SUIT or Recovery Near You, no referral necessary.
If you would like information about this or any of our other fantastic groups, contact SUIT on 01902 328983

05/02/2026

Wellbeing and Mindfulness announcement!

SUIT are excited to welcome Yoga with Cate to our Peer Led Women's Group, on Monday's from 12:30 at Recovery Near You 's Connaught Road Recovery Hub!

Cate will kindly be delivering yoga sessions suitable for all levels during the Women's Group for the next few weeks. You can view Cate's website here:

https://www.yogawithcate.com/

SUIT would like to say a special thanks to Cate, who is a patron and supporter of our

Yoga with Cate: Yoga classes for all levels in Wolverhampton. 121 coaching available to support your home practice. Available for collaboration projects.

03/02/2026

The next monthly Mental Health Peer Support Group will take place on Friday 6th February, 10am–12pm at Rethink's The Hub - Wolverhampton Train Station

The group will provide a safe space for peers to connect, share and signpost for support 💙

SUIT - Service User Involvement Team Rethink Mental Illness Wolverhampton Today

28/01/2026

A quick reminder that David's exhibition is live at The Spotlight Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery showcasing his fantastic animation work , developed with Asylum Art Gallery & Studios Ltd

24/01/2026

22/01/2026

To find out everything about our lived experience recovery organisation in Wolverhampton, click here to visit our website:

https://www.suitrecoverywolverhampton.com/

You can self-refer to our service, apply to be a volunteer, find details for Wolverhampton’s drug & alcohol treatment service Recovery Near You , and read all about our mission and values.
Read our teams’ powerful stories of recovery, Polish & Punjabi support with the Cultural Engagement Team, inspirational work with the Creative Arts Hub including collaborative work with Asylum Art Gallery & Studios Ltd & Geese Theatre Company , UK SMART Recovery meetings, upcoming events and announcements, harm reduction information, mental health signposting, and our partnership work with Recovery Near You.

SUIT are a project of WVCA - Wolverhampton Voluntary & Community Action

SUIT ,Service User Involvement Team Wolverhampton Welfare & Recovery Support for vulnerable adults in addiction services, experience driven volunteers peer mentoring, volunteer

21/01/2026

21/01/2026

On Tuesday, Marcus & Christiane were at the British Library in London with Dame Carol Black, for an incredible milestone in SUIT's history!

SUIT's contribution to "Lived Experience Recovery Organisations: Peer Generated Epicentres of Personal Change and Collective Transformation" appears alongside other innovative and inspirational lived experience testimonies from leaders of 's nationally, and has been created by Dr David Patton, Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Derby & Dot Smith of Recovery Connections who launched New Central Media publishing together.

The event at the British Library saw the book deposited in the British Library, ensuring that the work it contains from contributors including SUIT, becomes part of the national archive and is recognised as a meaningful contribution to the knowledge of lived experience.

“This is a significant milestone in the journey of lived experience models of support with regard to recovery from addiction,” comments Marcus Johnson, SUIT Project Manager. “As part of WVCA - Wolverhampton Voluntary & Community Action, SUIT has been supporting those in recovery for 20 years. To have our work recognised in such a prestigious publication really does validate, not only what we do here in Wolverhampton, but what the LERO movement is achieving nationally.”

A huge thank you to Dr Ed Day, Dr David Patton, and Dame Carol for being absolute champions on the heroic mission to change the addiction recovery landscape.

20/01/2026

20/01/2026

Head to Wolverhampton Art Gallery this Saturday 24th January to see the first residency of Asylum Art Gallery & Studios Ltd [P R O] F I L E alternative art school featuring SUIT client David!

The project, delivered by Asylum Artist Quarter, and funded by Arts Council England, gives SUIT clients an incredible experience, undertaking a programme where they can access artist studios, skills workshops and develop their artistic practise within a program of activity co-designed with the cohort.
Through multiple showcasing opportunities the focus is to raise the profile and experience of the individuals to enter the professional sector and include their lived experience in the cultural ecology of the city.

https://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/whats-on/asylum-alternative-art-school-profile-david-johnson/

Visit Wolverhampton Art Gallery from Saturday 24th January, 2026, to view SUIT Recovery Near You client David’s animation work titled
“Joey the Fish”.
"In Johnson’s analogue animations, Joey drinks and drives, is caught, taken to the police station, banned, and forced to adapt to a slower way of moving through the world — catching the bus for three years. Told with restraint and subtle humour, the narrative reflects lived experience: moments of poor judgement, accountability, and the long, often unglamorous work of change.”

The installation is a deep dive into David’s lived experience of struggles with alcohol and its consequences, and how he swam to the top again.

We are so proud of David, and cannot wait to see his exhibition!

16/01/2026

🔥NO SMART GROUP TODAY🔥
Unfortunately, there will be no SMART group down at The Hub on Connaught Road today, Friday 16th January, due to the final stages of the refurbishment of the building. There will also be no Men's group this week.
Normal groups will resume on Monday morning.
For more information about this or any of our other recovery support groups, contact SUIT on 01902 328983