EACH ONE, TEACH ONE –
April 23, 2025 – A mother-of-two who was helped by a rehabilitation organisation said she is “overrun” with gratitude now her life is back on track. “Every woman deserves opportunity and if my hands being held out to that woman is enough … I’ll continue to do what I do,” Sophie said.
The Nelson Trust was founded in Brimscombe in 1985 as a residential rehabilitation centre for men and women struggling with drug and alcohol abuse, before expanding to four treatment centres in Stroud and nine women’s centres in 2010.
The trust launched an “informed gender responsive approach” after staff at the rehabilitation centre realised that a lot of women who were seeking treatment had “significant histories of trauma”.
They also found that much of the trauma was linked to domestic abuse and some mothers may have had their children removed from their care.
