In this personal blog, Chantel, Recovery Navigator at The Forward Trust, reflects on this year’s Emma Urquhart Cup and the power of friendship, remembrance and recovery.
The Emma Urquhart Cup has become so much more than a football match. It’s a day where people come together, put differences aside, and celebrate friendship, recovery, community and remembrance. And Saturday 13 June was exactly one of those days that reminded me exactly why recovery matters
For a few hours, none of us were defined by our pasts. We weren’t ex-prisoners, people in recovery, or individuals carrying trauma and loss. We were simply friends coming together to remember someone we loved and to celebrate what recovery can look like.
The football was brilliant, but the real success of the day was seeing people laughing together, sharing memories, creating new ones and supporting one another. What stood out to me most was the atmosphere. There was a genuine sense of warmth and connection throughout the stadium.
Everywhere I looked, people were talking, reconnecting and building friendships that may never have happened if recovery hadn’t brought them together.
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