Essex Recovery Foundation is a new community-led commissioning body (registered charity) set up by Public Health at Essex County Council together with Social Finance. It aims to produce sustained recovery for people experiencing drug and alcohol addiction across Essex.The funding will be used to employ key staff to help continue and expand on these services. These will include a Service Improvement Lead to work with providers and build knowledge and capabilities a Community Lead to build the community empower its voice and lead destigmatisation and a Development Lead to collate the learnings from this innovation.