Aquarius Life
In 2014, Aquarius Life was born through a partnership with a large automotive organisation where we provided specialist support to people in employment.
As a result of this partnership, we noticed the prevalence of these issues for people that are in work. We also recognised that very little specialist support is offered by organisations to help people cope with these issues, stay employed and ultimately lead healthy lives (also supported by data that suggests over 80% of people with alcohol issues don’t access local treatment services and over 70% of people experiencing substance use issues are in employment – Public Health England).
Our mission
Aquarius Life is a social enterprise that applies commercial approaches to deliver on the Aquarius core charitable objectives.
The goal of the service is to provide tailored programmes that help to prevent and overcome the harms caused by alcohol, drugs and gambling through the delivery of cost-effective specialist services.
For Aquarius we aim to;
- Improve access to our existing services.
- Reach people that might not access our existing services.
- Use education as a preventative approach.
- Provide alternative income streams to core funding.
We provide;
Policy support and consultancy
Training, workshops and webinars
Support sessions
Through delivery of our services we;
- Raise awareness of the dangers related to alcohol, drug and gambling issues in the workplace.
- Encourage and enable employers to recognise the challenges behind the issues and take positive, practical steps to support valued employees and team members.
- Reduce the stigma attached to these issues and encourage / enable people to come forward for support.
- Provide education to help prevent issues from arising.
- Use 1:1 support to help people understand their behaviours and find alternative ways to cope.
- Prevent financial loss to employers by addressing issues.
- Reinvest any surplus income from the service into in our charitable community services
- Support your organisation in achieving its corporate social responsibility commitments.
Inspiring individuals
Aquarius is a founding partner of Recovery Focus, an expert group of charities inspiring recovery together in the fields of mental health, drug, alcohol and gambling support, and domestic violence.
As a charity, all income made by Aquarius Life goes directly back into Aquarius’ charitable services, allowing us to support more people on their recovery journeys.
Policy and strategy
We write and implement alcohol, drug and health and wellbeing strategies and policies.
Training delivery
We deliver skills training and awareness programmes.
Support sessions
We provide on and off site 1:1 and group psychological support.