Our Mission
To provide men and women completing a minimum 9 month Christian drug or alcohol rehabilitation programme with the support they need to gain life skills training through education and work based placements to live an independent drug free life.
Horizon Life Training is a Christian Charity in Harrogate offering 12 months separate residential accommodation for men and women to help rebuild and transform their lives by facilitating bespoke education training packages and work based placements. Horizon Life Training is the perfect move on option for motivated men and women who have completed their residential rehabilitation programme and wish to add functional and vocational qualifications to their portfolios.
The Transforming Journey
Reaching Out
With a message of God’s love and hope to those trapped in a life of addiction. We are all someone’s son or daughter who deserve a second chance.
Relieving
By giving the opportunity of a minimum of 9 months residential rehabilitation placement at one of our partner rehabs. Offering freedom from addiction and finding a life lived for Christ.
Re-educating
The opportunity to continue this transforming journey – by developing learning skills through education packages to attain employment, becoming and restored as a contributing member of society.
Restoring
By finding fulfilment in employment and developing the life skills needed for independent community living. By gaining a sense of worth through an understanding of our identity in Christ.
How It Works
Working with training providers such as Harrogate Adult Learning, the Higher Education Colleges in Harrogate, Leeds and York alongside local businesses, tradesmen and the care sector, we facilitate bespoke training packages for our residents based on their personal motivation and chosen career path. We partner with local businesses who have offered placements in plumbing, joinery, landscaping, electrics, construction, health & social care roles, hairdressing and retail. However, this is not a closed list and if your goal is in another field, we will investigate the opportunities in our area on your behalf.
It is important to note that all our placements follow a volunteer work ethos, we can never promise work based placements will lead to paid or permitted work although some of our residents have been very successful in this area. We believe every individual is unique and we work closely with applicants and their advisors to ensure suitability at the point of application.
Local Church Community
We are a Christian Charity and foundational to our residents’ lives are their local churches. Navigating your future with local pastoring is essential for a successful life. We encourage applicants to visit churches in the local area even before they are enrolled and to choose a church family for the duration of their stay at Horizon Life Training. Below is a button with quick links to churches our residents have attended. These are not the only churches in Harrogate. You are welcome to search for your church preference at findachurch.
Outreach
Horizon Life Training partner with Teen Challenge Leeds. TC Leeds Outreach started in the year 2000 based in Leeds city centre on a double decker bus with the upstairs fitted out as a coffee bar. Their mission is to rescue men and women off the streets of Yorkshire out of a life of substance abuse and into a life restored living in Christ. This work continues weekly with teams of volunteers from local churches together with Horizon Life residents, who visit a variety of different towns and cities throughout Yorkshire sharing the gospel offering a message of hope to those who have no hope and promoting the work of Teen Challenge rehabilitation centres.
“This is how much God loved the world: He gave His Son, His one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in Him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending His Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in Him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust Him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to Him.”
John 3:16-18 The Message Translation Copyright © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
Who Can Apply?
Are you a Christian completing, or have you just completed, long term drug or alcohol rehabilitation? Do you need an additional platform following rehab to gain the confidence and life skills to get back into community? Do you wish to achieve a specific trade or career pathway and build your CV? Do you have the motivation to take on and achieve a Level 2 vocational training qualification in the community such as an NVQ or similar within 12-months? Are you motivated to volunteer/work in a placement within your chosen trade or career and have the ability to study in your free time without being prompted? Then Horizon Life Training may be for you.
Don’t be intimidated if you have little or no qualifications. If you have the determination to improve your life skills/CV, we are here to support you. One of our previous residents, who came to us struggling with literacy skills, went on to complete his NVQ L1 in Health and Social Care and continued in his studies after leaving HLT. Another resident, after 35 years in addiction, was diligent to give his time in a retail placement which gave him the confidence to move to a placement in a local care home and achieve an NVQ L2 in Health and Social Care.
“I know what it means to lack, and I know what it means to experience overwhelming abundance. For I’m trained in the secret of overcoming all things, whether in fullness or in hunger. And I find that the strength of Christ’s explosive power infuses me to conquer every difficulty.”
Philippians 4:12-13 The Passion Translation Copyright © 2017 by BroadStreet Publishing® Group
The Team

Bernie
Centre Manager

Jacqui
Support Worker

Mark
Support Worker

Neil
Admin Officer

Sammi
Intern
Words From Past Residents
“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus”
Philippians 1:6 The Berean Study Bible Copyright © 2016 by Bible Hub
How To Apply
All referrals and interested applicants please download our application form using the link below. Please complete the form and have your senior support worker or pastoral support complete the endorsement on the last page.
Email completed applications to admissions@horizonlifetraining.org.uk or post it to the address found in the form.
All eligible applicants will be contacted and invited to attend a taster week. You will reside at the relevant Horizon Life Training centre where we will arrange a variety of volunteer placements to give you a flavour of what is on offer. You will also have the opportunity to attend an outreach evening along with a visit to a local church on the Sunday giving you a full week’s experience of life in the centre. Following a successful taster week, you will be offered a 12 month placement. It is important to note that we can only take those who are committed to maintain our strong Christian ethos and agree to follow our strict no smoking, no drinking and no substance use policy.
COVID-19 NOTICE
In step with government guidelines, Horizon Life Training have put measures in place to protect our residents, staff and business users. Visits to our sites are by appointment only. Since the guidelines are updated from time to time, please call us to enquire current procedures. Taster weeks are currently suspended. For all new applicants – once we have received your completed application form we will make contact to advise of the next steps.
Horizon Life Training is an independent registered charity no. 1134335 and incorporated company no. 06995906. We are thankful for the generosity of our local community and those from further afield who make our ministry to men and women coming out of addiction possible.
Contact Us
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Kennel Hall Farm Men’s Residence
01423 560841
Bramall House Women’s Residence
01423 779655