SOS Buses and Festivals

Festival & Events Welfare Services

Open Road operates experienced festival welfare services and event welfare services throughout England. Find out about our Festival Welfare services and Event Welfare Services and get in contact to arrange our support: 01206 369782 Read more

SOS Buses

Open Road operates SOS bus services in Colchester High Street and Chelmsford City Centre. Our specially adapted buses are on site at weekends to provide a safe haven and medical support to people who need it. Read more

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Finance Assistant

The role of the Finance Assistant is to provide highly organised and accurate finance and administrative support to the Finance Manager and members of the Senior Management Team.

Young Person's Substance Misuse Worker

As the Young Person's Substance Misuse Worker, you will be responsible for the assessment and management of a caseload as well as the delivery of both structured and semi structured interventions in both one to one and group sessions.

Cara Hayes Recovery Tree

Therapeutic Artist Cara Hayes paints large canvas for Open Road Chelmsford

COVID-19 Organisational Risk Assessment

What we do

Open Road is an established Drug and Alcohol Recovery support charity in Essex and Medway. Open Road provides a variety of services to support individuals on their journey to recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.

Finance Assistant

The role of the Finance Assistant is to provide highly organised and accurate finance and administrative support to the Finance Manager and members of the Senior Management Team.

Open Road's Steve scoops national award for social change

Open Road's Criminal Justice & Welfare Area Manager Steve Wood has won the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Social Change Awards 2020.

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Reach out to Open Road and start your journey to recovery today.

Young People's Services

We offer a young people's Drug & Alcohol services from age 10 - 18 and beyond (25) for those in looked after care across Medway. Within Essex, we work with our partners EYPDAS as part of the Childrens Society.

Coronavirus - Services Update

An update to services provided by Open Road in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Make a referral

If you are a professional working with a client who requires support around their drug or alcohol usage, then make the referral here.

Colchester Centre

Open Road's Colchester site is our longest established treatment centre, conveniently located in the town centre. We offer open access for anyone who would like advice, information, support, assessment and access to more formal treatment.

Open Road headlines welfare services at Latitude

Open Road returned to provide welfare services at Latitude in 2019. Read the article to find out how we got on.

Chelmsford Centre

Open Road's Chelmsford centre is located in Mansard House, on New London Road. Our Open Access service provides the opportunity for support, advice and information on a daily basis. We can do Personalised Assessments on the same day, which will signpost the service user to effective interventions and treatments.