NT LIFE Recovery College

NT LIFE Recovery College NT LIFE Recovery Colleges is for people aged 18+ primarily living in the North Tyneside area with lived experience of mental ill-health.

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Eeh, I’m starting to get a tad excited about our 2025 12 Days of Christmas starting on Monday!! 🎅🎄🙌😁Christmas jumpers ou...
27/11/2025

Eeh, I’m starting to get a tad excited about our 2025 12 Days of Christmas starting on Monday!! 🎅🎄🙌😁

Christmas jumpers out of the loft ✅
Christmas earrings ✅
Christmas shoes ✅
Christmas tattoos ✅
Christmas scrunchies ✅
Christmas jarmas ✅
Anything & everything tacky ✅

Right, I’m off to write an NT LIFE song for you all to sing…. 😂

Who’s ready??

Some fab advice on shopping safely this Black Friday and Christmas season guys 😊
27/11/2025

Some fab advice on shopping safely this Black Friday and Christmas season guys 😊

Who’s ready for our NT LIFE’s 12 Days of Christmas? We’re not quite, but we’re getting there 😂Here’s our Mandy prepping ...
26/11/2025

Who’s ready for our NT LIFE’s 12 Days of Christmas? We’re not quite, but we’re getting there 😂

Here’s our Mandy prepping for Michael Bauble Day on Monday 😁

Eeeeeeh, excited muchly!! 🎅🎄🎅🎄

See you all over the next 3 weeks - feel free to look as utterly Christmassy as you dare to…. Nothing is ‘over the top’ in December 😁

Our craft group getting their Christmas groove on this week, making these fab decorations. They’ll look even fabberer wi...
26/11/2025

Our craft group getting their Christmas groove on this week, making these fab decorations. They’ll look even fabberer with some fairy lights on ❤️

🎄CHRISTMAS GONK GIVEAWAY!🎄Handmade by our absolutely legendary volunteers (powered by tea, biscuits, and the sheer joy o...
25/11/2025

🎄CHRISTMAS GONK GIVEAWAY!🎄

Handmade by our absolutely legendary volunteers (powered by tea, biscuits, and the sheer joy of crafting tiny bearded creatures).

Do you know someone who deserves a bit of festive magic?

💛 Someone you’re grateful for…
😔 Or someone who’s had a tough time and needs a little lift…
😂 Or someone who just really needs a small Nordic creature staring at them with encouragement?

Nominate them below👇(Please don't put any personal deets in the comments, send addresses to julie.bishop@voda.org.uk or ali.donkin@voda.org.uk!

Tell us why they’re brilliant or why they need a cheer-up gonk in their life.

✨ Why we’re doing this:

Practising gratitude is proven to boost mental wellbeing — it strengthens connection, reduces stress, and makes your brain do that warm fuzzy thing.
So let’s spread a bit of that around like magic Christmas fairy dust 🪄🧚✨

We’ll choose a handful of nominations and deliver a gorgeous, handmade Christmas gonk to your chosen person. 🎁🧙‍♂️

💬 Drop your nomination in the comments!

💖 Let’s fill this thread with kindness, appreciation, and festive silliness 🎅🎄

30/10/2025

If anyone has any clothes to donate Walking With in North Tyneside are in need

🍄🍁Things are feeling all autumnal here at NT LIFE in amongst all the monks and then look at these little lush mushrooms!...
23/10/2025

🍄🍁Things are feeling all autumnal here at NT LIFE in amongst all the monks and then look at these little lush mushrooms! One of our participants from our Nurturing Nature Connection course loved the whittling so much in the last cohort they've gone and bought their own knife and have created this fab little collection!

Now all we need to think of is what the word is for a collection of mushrooms...we have a herd of elephants, and gaggle of geese...get your suggestions in on the comments and we'll pick the best one next week!

Wow!! Massive congratulations to North Shield’s very own Sam Fender!! 👏👏🙌🙌Sam does so much for our town and deserves thi...
17/10/2025

Wow!! Massive congratulations to North Shield’s very own Sam Fender!! 👏👏🙌🙌

Sam does so much for our town and deserves this so much, no matter how shocked he was 💙 Good on you Sam Fender

13/10/2025

‼️ Deadline Reminder ‼️

Can everyone remember to fill out the form on your course confirmation email by 5pm today please?

Thank you 😊

As if we had a ladybird infestation on Wednesday 😳 Well, we had 5 ladybirds, but that’s a lot for someone scared of all ...
11/10/2025

As if we had a ladybird infestation on Wednesday 😳 Well, we had 5 ladybirds, but that’s a lot for someone scared of all things flappy, innit?! 😖

The culprit? Our Men’s Group’s G, who kindly brought in some bunches of grapes he’d grown in his garden…. Who knew that inside bunches of innocent-looking grapes, would lurk an army of flippy-flappiness?! 🤢

Not dramatic at all, me….

Here’s a pic of G with his grapes of wrath…. Please don’t be nice again G, I’m on the edge 🙈😂

Please note: no flippy-flappies were harmed in the making of this post, they were all safely returned to the great outdoors (where they belong!!!!) by the lovely Dan 😁

I’m not paid enough for this stress mind…. I need a holiday…. Or protective clothing…. Or a holiday…. Or a holiday…. Or a holiday….🤪

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109-110 Howard Street
North Shields
NE301NA

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 5am
Tuesday 9:30am - 5am
Wednesday 9:30am - 5am
Thursday 9:30am - 5am
Friday 9:30am - 3am

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NT L.I.F.E is the Recovery College for North Tyneside.

Recovery Colleges offer educational courses about mental health and recovery which are designed to increase students’ knowledge and skills and to help them feel more confident in self-management of their own mental health and well-being.

For a person, with lived experience of mental ill health, this may help them to take control and become an expert in their own well-being and recovery and move on with their life despite their mental health challenges. This will hopefully help them to achieve or work towards whatever is meaningful in their lives.

Delivered in a safe and friendly community setting, courses and workshops are co-produced and designed by individuals who have lived experience of challenges with their own mental health, and who want to pass on their LIFE learning, skills and knowledge to help others.