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🎬Great to see 2 of our Pro-Eternal team on the same end credits together!
✂️Beautifully edited by our Peter with the stunning drone/landscape shots in the Bethesda- Eryri/Snowdonia area filmed by Marcus. 🎥
Murder at the Post Office.
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📣So, well... I have a bit of an announcement to make....
I've been included on the New Year's Honours List and I'm being honoured with an MBE.🎖️
As I opened the letter and saw ‘Cabinet Office’ at the top, my hands started to shake as I read that I would be receiving an MBE for:
‘Services to Addiction Recovery, to Ex-offenders and Tackling Homelessness'
It was, and still is an incredibly surreal moment in a very strange life that I’m experiencing. My life seems to have gone from one extreme to another and I’m so very grateful for the few people who never gave up on me when I was a homeless addict, they saved my life and helped to get me into recovery. Since then, I owe a debt of gratitude to many many more people who have supported me, and now Eternal to create something very beautiful, wholesome and extremely powerful that supports people out of extreme adversity, gives families their loved ones back, creates positive ripple effects throughout our communities and on a global scale.
We don’t all make it into recovery, in fact those of us that do are very much in the minority. Most of us relapse, cross-addict and/or die. We set up Eternal Media because when I got clean in 2014, there was nothing for people in recovery. There were projects that I could’ve got involved with, but I would’ve had to mix with people in addiction, and after 25 years in Heroin and Crack addiction, I just wasn’t strong enough to do that. There was no provision for people just in recovery, there still isn’t very much at all in North Wales 🏴. (💜 NWRC💜🏴)
I see the MBE as very much a shared honour for all of us whom managed to find our return ticket from hell and made it into recovery… All of us that by some miracle didn’t die and now help others out of addiction, just as we were once helped.
My story has a cast of hundreds that have helped me, especially my family and the most profoundly talented and incredible team at Eternal… and I can never thank everybody enough.
My hope is that the honour helps to create new opportunities for people to find sustainable long-term recovery with us, new partnerships, for us to roll out more Eternal projects across the UK and to help stop the utterly avoidable daily tragedies of our most vulnerable dying on our streets and behind closed doors to addiction.
Addiction is a life and death condition. Recovery is at the heart of everything we do, Eternal is the 'Life After Addiction', we strive to make recovery accessible, fun and an attractive option for people trapped in the horrific and distilled misery cycle of addiction.
I’m so incredibly proud that they gave Recovery an MBE!
Marcus Fair… MBE🎖️
'(That’ll take a bit of getting used to!🙈)'
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Update
I'm completely overwhelmed by everybody's comments 😭
Thank you all so much for your kind words and continued encouragement.
Hope to catch up with everyone soon!
Wishing everyone the most fantastic 2026! 🎉
Love
Marcus and team Eternal💜
💜💜💜Christmas can be a difficult time for many people. For some, alcohol and drugs can play a bigger part at this time of year, and mental health can feel harder to manage. You are not alone.
If you are struggling with substance use or your mental health and would like support, Penrhyn House at North Wales Recovery Communities is here to help.
Penrhyn House
Llandegai Road, Bangor, LL57 1PZ
Phone: 01248 352771
Email: contactus@nwrc.info
Penrhyn House offers a wide range of recovery support, including mutual aid meetings such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous and SMART Recovery, as well as men’s and women’s groups.
There are also wellbeing and social activities available, including gym sessions, football, gong bath, mindfulness and creative activities.
Other local and national support is also available:
DAN 24/7 Wales Drug and Alcohol Helpline
0808 808 2234 or text 81066
C.A.L.L. Mental Health Helpline (24 hours a day)
0800 132 737 or text 81066
Caniad (North Wales mental health and substance misuse support)
0800 085 3382
Alcoholics Anonymous Helpline
0800 917 7650
Narcotics Anonymous Helpline
0300 999 1212
Cocaine Anonymous Helpline
0800 612 0225
Samaritans
116 123
For urgent mental health support through the NHS, call 111 and choose option 2.
Support is available and recovery is possible. Please reach out if you need help, or share this post with someone who may benefit.
Imagine walking into an art gallery and seeing your own photos on display …
That’s just what happened to this band of Recovery In Focus photographers when we launched an exhibition of their photography at @storielbangor . Congratulations to you all!
Huge thanks to Storiel for their continued support of this project, a massive acknowledgement of the value of Recovery in Focus and of these photographers.
Recovery in Focus is a unique therapeutic project that uses photography to explore individual stories of recovery from addiction. On this ten week project, participants learn photography skills alongside building a strong recovery toolkit.
Recovery in Focus is funded by the National Lottery.
~ Jill
Dychmygwch gerdded i mewn i oriel gelf a gweld eich lluniau eich hun ar ddangos …
Dyna'n union beth ddigwyddodd i'r criw hwn o ffotograffwyr Recovery In Focus pan lansiwyd arddangosfa o'u ffotograffiaeth yn @storielbangor. Llongyfarchiadau i chi gyd!
Diolch yn fawr iawn i Storiel am eu cefnogaeth barhaus i'r prosiect hwn, cydnabyddiaeth enfawr o werth Recovery in Focus a'r ffotograffwyr hyn.
Mae Recovery in Focus yn brosiect therapiwtig unigryw sy'n defnyddio ffotograffiaeth i archwilio straeon unigol am adferiad o gaethiwed. Ar y prosiect deg wythnos hwn, mae cyfranogwyr yn dysgu sgiliau ffotograffiaeth ochr yn ochr ag adeiladu pecyn cymorth adferiad cryf.
Mae Recovery in Focus wedi'i ariannu gan y Loteri Genedlaethol.
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#therapeuticphotography
#recoveryispossible
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Storiel
We’re delighted to announce that a new exhibition of Recovery in Focus photos will be on display at Storiel in Bangor from mid November. These will be photos taken by the groups RIF#7 and RIF#8, plus a couple of guest appearances from RIF#6!
We’d love you to join us at the opening of the exhibition on Tuesday 18 November, 1.30pm, at Storiel. Come along and meet the Eternal Media team and our band of recovery photographers. Everyone is welcome.
Huge thanks to @storielbangor for their support of Recovery in Focus, and for curating this exhibition.
~Jill
photo credits
Stephen Deyes
Sophie Robinson
Tony Ormond
Saffron Roberts
Tamara Phipps
Emily Kelly
Storiel
North Wales Recovery Communities
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Thanks for coming to see us Lesley Griffiths and for taking the time to support us! 💜💜💜It was great to catch up with Marcus Fair, MD and founder of Eternal Media, at their HQ on Borras Road and to congratulate him on receiving a prestigious award.
As part of its 30th anniversary celebrations, The National Lottery awarded 30 ‘Game Changers’ from nominations across the UK. The title recognises the trailblazers, celebrating the outstanding contributions made in their field, and Marcus was awarded a Game Changer award for his work in the community.
Marcus survived a 25 year heroin and crack cocaine addiction, vast swathes of homelessness and multiple prison sentences before turning his life around and founding Eternal Media. The not-for-profit enterprise is an award-winning provider of training in media and filmmaking for individuals who have overcome addiction.
As part of the National Celebration, seven of the chosen Game Changers were invited to sit for portraits painted by the artist Luis Gomez De Teran.
The portraits were exhibited at the Blue Bridge in St James’ Park in London and Marcus’ now sits proudly at Eternal Media’s base in Borras.
Read more about Marcus' incredible achievements here: www.eternalmedia.co.uk/game-changer-award/#more
Taking in the photo displays currently on show around Colwyn Bay as part of the Northern Eye Photography Festival.
We were blessed with a wonderfully sunny day as RIF folk from Wrexham, Rhyl and Bangor came together for a day of creative exploring.
~ Jill
Oriel Colwyn
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