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For most people across the UK, the holiday season is a time for coming together as a family and celebrating the turning of another year. However, for children living in a home where addiction is a problem, Christmas can be a time of real concern and fear. Nacoa’s helpline will be open every day over Christmas, …

To kick off 2020, a team a ladies from across the UK are embarking on a challenge to complete 1 million steps each for children affected by their parent’s drinking from 1st Oct to 31st Dec to raise money for Nacoa. A few of these wonderful women have decided to share their stories and reasons …

It’s #AlcoholAwarenessWeek. The week of the year where we are all encouraged to speak properly about alcohol. This year’s theme is ‘Alcohol and Me’. It is managed every year by the fantastic charity, Alcohol Change.  Find out more about their Alcohol Awareness Week activities here. Nacoa will be speaking throughout the week for everyone affected …

We are very proud to announce that our ‘Some Mums and Dads’ leaflet has been ‘highly commended’ by the British Medical Association at the BMA Patient Information Awards 2019. ‘Some mums and dads drink too much’ is a leaflet that provides vital information and guidance for anyone affected by their parent’s drinking, both children and adults. …

Camilla Stroem Henriksen’s directorial feature debut, Phoenix, will be released in cinemas around the UK this Friday 13th September 2019. It is a spellbindingly brilliant depiction of a young girl attempting to hold hers and her brother’s life together as mum’s and dad’s demons tear her world, and sense of reality, apart. Phoenix is set in …

Over the past few years, we have been so proud to see the Nacoa message travelling far and wide. We want to let as many of the 2.6 Million children affected by their parent’s drinking in the UK know that they are not alone and Nacoa is here. We couldn’t do this without inspiring supporters. …

Tallaght Stadium is set to host a major celebrity football match in August raising funds and awareness for Nacoa Television personality Calum Best, son of legendary Northern Ireland and Manchester United player George Best, is one of the driving forces behind the ‘My Tribute’ game, which is due to be staged on Sunday 31st August at …

This weekend, a group of 25 Nacoa volunteers will brave the 6 Dales Circuit in the Peak District to raise funds and awareness for children affected by their parent’s drinking. It is a gruelling and beautiful 27 mile walk up and down hills across the Derbyshire dales. The trip has been organised by long-time Nacoa …

Following the tremendous success of Nacoa patron Calum Best’s first ‘My Tribute’ celebrity charity football match for Nacoa, he wen’t on ITV’s good morning Britain to announce his next event. Calum is a wonderful speaker about his own experience as a child of an alcoholic parent, and speaks wonderfully also about what we should do …

One of the achievements we are most proud of in recent years is Nacoa’s role in rapidly increasing the public awareness and media coverage for children affected by their parent’s drinking. Working with newspapers, TV and radio, Nacoa volunteers are often out in force on the airwaves shining a light on what it’s like growing …