Testimonials

I have been using POW for 9 years and have found it a great help to me, it is a safe place where I can have a talk get a cup of tea and something to eat, even use the gym and have a shower. I have just enrolled in an anger management course which is helping me, also the G.U lady is great, there are no horrid examinations and it is very quick.

I have also had acupuncture quiet a few times which I really love, it is so relaxing and it is all in the comfort of POW and POWs client mentors. I have had loads of 1-2-1 sessions with most of the staff at POW, they have all been a great help to me not forgetting those in the office. I have been very lucky to get home visits and have been picked up and dropped off sometimes which is a great help to me as I have a hell of a lot of issues getting out of the flat. I just want to say a big thank you for all the help I have had off everyone at POW they are a very special team and I hope they never close down cause I don't know what I would do without them, thanks.

I had over 20 years drug use and said good place to come, medication helped out a great deal, was helped with the chance to go to rehab and received good advice.

The team at POW are very supportive and easy to approach with most problems. There is always someone to talk to. The environment has a relaxed feeling and there is always a cup of tea and something to eat if required.

I am currently using the counselling service. I find this helpful as I have a lot of issues. POW is helping me work through these and I see her 1 hour a week. Thanks to all the team for their support throughout the years I've used this service.

I'm C and I'm going to write about my life and the people who helped and cared for me through some really hard times.

Well I moved up to Nottingham about nine months ago, I was working the beat and one of the girls told me to go to POW to clean myself up, so I did and that's where I met Sue.

Sue was this big inspiration to me she was this amazing woman who had been where I was going a good twenty years ago previous and she tried her best to help me along with the others but I just wasn't ready yet, but at least I always knew they was there for me .

But I still tried to go and see them almost every day for condoms and some one to talk to and stuff and when I left there I went straight out to work. So that's how my life worked for me at the time I got up went out to earn a quick Ł20 for gear, had it then went to POW, sat with them for a bit as I had started to trust them, and when I left I went straight out for more gear and a stone.

In that time I had been attacked twice, but I still had to work as it happened one day I was lucky and I got picked up by the police they sent me to prison for breach of a DTTO, it was the first time I'd been to prison so I really was scared and I was withdrawing.

As it turned out I went to prison for 5 weeks the day I got out at court they gave me 4 months to sort myself out. So I was just as stuffed, they kicked me out at court knowing that I had no money, no where to live, no methadone, no clothes etc. So you guessed it I went straight back to the life I knew (street life), and so far the next two and a half moth that was my life and then one Tuesday night I got attacked pretty bad, something really bad happened to me that night, my life really did flash before my eyes and to tell you the truth there wasn't much to see.

Any way when I woke up in the morning I really wanted to sort myself I went to see POW, this women showed me that I have still got plenty of life to live and told me that if I could believe in myself again then I could do anything and that what I'm trying to do.

For the last 4 weeks I have stuck to my methadone script, I haven't worked the streets, I'm going to probation for all my appointments, and four days a week I'm doing keep fit, with a volunteer at POW.

Last but not least I am seriously thinking of going into rehab, things are really looking up for me at long last and it's all thanks to a bit of motivation and a lot of help from people who really do care.

So a big thank you to everybody at POW and here's to the next chapter in my life.