Overview This year has been one of significant growth, consolidation and international development for Ubuntu Academy of Coaching. We have continued to advance our mission of professionalising lived experience by expanding our education, strengthening partnerships and increasing our impact across the United Kingdom, South Africa, Zambia and Uganda. Expanding the Professional Pathway One of our most significant achievements has been the expansion of our professional training pathway. What began as a Sober Companion programme has evolved into a comprehensive route from Sober Companion to Peer Recovery Specialist, Certified Professional Recovery Coach, Systemic Wellness Practitioner, Case Manager, Facilitator and ultimately our Master's programme. During the year, we trained more than 50 learners. Our principal organisational partnerships included Recovery Connections, Sankalpa Ireland and the Epic Restart Foundation, providing a strong foundation for continued training delivery, workforce development and organisational growth. International Delivery and Access Internationally, we moved beyond relationship building into active programme delivery. We launched the University of Zambia Collegiate Recovery Programme in partnership with the University of Zambia and continued our second year of work with the Hope Foundation Uganda, supporting 79 students through education and development. In Zambia, we established a formal company so that we can invest more directly on the ground, strengthen local leadership and create a sustainable base for future development. In South Africa, the Foundation Clinic in Johannesburg became a contracted provider to Discovery Health. This enables eligible patients to receive fully funded treatment without an additional self-payment gap, widening access and reducing the financial burden placed on families. This directly reflects our philosophy that effective treatment should be available to all without creating further hardship for those who support them. Harley Street and Ethical Private-Sector Practice We also opened our Harley Street office in London. Through our partnership with MAUNi in the Netherlands, including MAUNi-GGZ.nl, we are bringing our knowledge and experience into the private sector in an ethical and professional way. Our purpose is to improve treatment outcomes while protecting person-centred care, professional integrity and the values that underpin recovery. Technology, Resilience and Intellectual Property We have continued to use technology to advance our vision and mission of curing the world of addiction by making treatment, education and recovery support more accessible. Artificial intelligence has become an important part of our training programmes, and we have invested in developing our own platform on top of our Google for Nonprofits infrastructure, with relevant governance, compliance and professional safeguards built into its design. Developing our own applications makes us less dependent on external service providers and strengthens organisational resilience. When Workplace by Facebook closed, we lost ten years of institutional knowledge. That experience demonstrated the risk of relying on third-party platforms for essential organisational memory. By developing and governing our own systems, we can better preserve knowledge, support learners and practitioners, and protect the continuity of our work. Our digital development also includes immersive and virtual-reality environments, including the Epicurean Garden developed through MAUNi Tech. Our work is licensed through MAUNi.app and related international platforms, allowing us to expand globally while protecting our intellectual property assets and the integrity of our programmes. We believe technology should strengthen human connection, not replace it. Eight Master Coaches What I am most proud of this year is the certification of eight Master Coaches who completed a demanding two-year professional journey: Emma Buttress, Charlie Morrison, Robson Banda, Bruno Tomaselli, Paulo Pinto, Garth Rogers, Fatima Titus and Mureepa Jadwaat. Their achievements demonstrate that lived experience, when supported by structured education, supervision and high professional standards, can lead to leadership across community services, clinical practice and international programme delivery. This is proof that lived experience is not simply a personal story or a token contribution. It is a professional asset capable of transforming services, organisations and communities. Their progress also reflects our commitment to inclusive leadership, including the advancement of women and people from diverse backgrounds into positions of clinical, operational and community responsibility. Accreditation and National Alignment We achieved Best Practice Accreditation in the United Kingdom through CLERO, the College of Lived Experience. This independent recognition confirms that our work is aligned with national best practice and supports the aims of the UK's Harm to Hope strategy by helping to professionalise the lived experience workforce. It also places us firmly within the emerging fourth sector: a new economy that brings together statutory services, responsible private enterprise, charitable purpose and community knowledge to create sustainable social impact. Looking Ahead As we enter the next reporting year, our focus is on sustainable international growth while maintaining the highest standards of professional practice. Following the establishment of our company in Zambia, we will continue investing in local leadership and expanding recovery coaching and workforce development across the region. We are preparing to establish a presence in New Zealand and to expand our operation in Australia, where we have built a strong foothold over the past seven years and now have the foundations in place for further growth. We are also looking towards the United States, building on our relationship with the University of Utah and the Recovery Resilience Programme. This creates opportunities for education, research, professional exchange and the wider international recognition of lived experience as a disciplined and valuable field of practice. Alongside this geographical growth, we will continue investing in AI-enabled education, professional standards and digital infrastructure through our partnership with MAUNi and MAUNi-GGZ.nl. Our aim is to widen access responsibly, protect our intellectual property and organisational knowledge, and ensure that innovation always serves the human relationship at the heart of recovery. Our Purpose Our vision remains as bold today as when Ubuntu Academy was founded: to contribute to a world where recovery is possible for everyone, where addiction is no longer a life sentence, and where people with lived experience are recognised not for where they have been, but for the hope, leadership and wisdom they bring to others. The greatest lesson from this year is that investing in people creates lasting change. By bringing together statutory services, charities, communities and responsible private organisations, we are helping to shape a professional fourth sector that is credible, collaborative and rooted in impact. At its heart, all of this is rooted in Ubuntu: the belief that 'I am because we are'. That understanding underpins everything we have built this year and everything we hope to build next. It reminds us that recovery is strengthened through community, leadership grows through service, and our greatest achievements are those we build together. As Director, I want to thank our learners, graduates, partners, volunteers and supporters. Together, we are demonstrating that lived experience and professionalism, hand in hand, can transform lives, improve services and build stronger communities. “I am because we are.” Ubuntu.

Our CIC continues to prioritise stakeholder engagement through multiple avenues: Collaborative Service Delivery: Through our work with ROAR, Recovery Connections and international partners, we actively involved local stakeholders in co-designing and delivering services tailored to their community needs. Training and Empowerment: Stakeholders were engaged in case management training, contributing to local capacity building in Hartlepool and other areas. Support and Partnership: Stakeholders have also supported our CIC by providing emotional and therapeutic support to our director and consultants.This has fostered mutual support within our stakeholder network. International Collaboration: In Uganda, Zambia, South Africa, and Ireland, we have worked directly with community leaders, organisations, and local participants to build and sustain community recovery initiatives.

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