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Every year, the extended Nacoa volunteering team gets out on to the streets of Bristol to help organise Upfest, Europe’s largest Urban Art Festival. The festival started as a small fundraiser in a local bar in Bristol, and has grown into a national phenomenon, covering over 2 miles of Bristol streets and attracting over 40k …

This year’s Volunteers Awards Evening was graced by the presence of the Deputy Lord Mayor of Bristol Councillor Lesley Alexander and Nacoa Patron of 16 years, Tony Adams. Hilary Henriques welcomed friends, supporters, members and volunteers who joined together to celebrate 28 years providing information, advice and support for everyone affected by a parents drinking, …

This week the government announced that they will launch the UK’s first ever strategy to help children affected by parental alcohol misuse. Under new plans announced by Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt today to help identify and support at risk children more quickly. A funding package has been proposed that will aim to: …

University College London are looking for young people to advise on a research project on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). They are looking for young people (up to 22 years old) with experience of ACEs, including anyone ‘living in a household where there is/was substance abuse, alcohol abuse or illegal street drug use or abuse of …

Public Health England have this year scheduled an unprecedented event for their Annual Conference concerned with supporting ‘Children of dependent drinkers and drug takers’. We are delighted to see that, off the back of our Parliamentary campaign with Liam Byrne, such Government bodies are acknowledging that significant harm is caused to children and young people …

Children of Alcoholics Week 2018 – because no child affected by their parent’s problem drinking should ever feel alone. Shame. Fear. Guilt. Cold nausea. All words that might readily come to mind when you think of alcohol dependency. What if those words weren’t coming from the drinker, but instead from their 8 year old son …

The festive season can be difficult for families blighted by alcohol problems. Christmas and New Year is meant to be a time of celebration and togetherness, making it doubly sad for children living under the shadow of parental alcoholism. It can be a distressing time, reinforcing feelings of isolation and a sense of being different. …

Nacoa CEO, Hilary Henriques MBE, appeared on Woman’s Hour (25th May 2017) as a feature guest for their ‘series on people who grew up with an alcoholic parent’. Hilary was a co-founder of Nacoa, and has been its CEO for the entirety of its 27 years helping people affected by their parent’s drinking problems. It’s …

From 22nd May, BBC Radio 4 is running a week-long series of features focusing on children affected by a parent’s drinking. The programme’s reporter, Jo Morris, said, “We asked you to get in touch if you had been affected by this subject, and many of you did. Over the series we will be hearing about …

This week, Nacoa welcomed the Shadow Home Secretary, Jonathan Ashworth MP. Taking a break in his busy election schedule, Jonathan visited Nacoa’s Bristol offices to lead a discussion on the problems faced by children affected by their parent’s drinking. It also offered a chance to celebrate the success of the All Party Parliamentary Group on …