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Mainliners
does this through a variety of flexible methods and interventions.
A key remit of our
work is information and education delivered through training,
conferences, events, outreach and via the website. Our front line activities encompass street outreach and fixed site service delivery.
In fact, we have just been awarded a green flag across a range of areas for our SMART service from the National Treatment Agency (NTA) !
Mainliners
will celebrate its sixteenth anniversary in 2006.
The
organisation is bigger today than at any time in our
history, both in staff complement and premises for service delivery. The staff team numbers currently circa 30 with an additional compliment of 10-15 volunteers at any given time. We have permanent bases in New Kent Road (London), Streatham (London), Croydon
(London), Bath Street in Glasgow and Academy Street in Edinburgh. In addition,
services are delivered at a number of satellite bases in the
boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark in south London.
Historically, Mainliners service delivery was primarily
London based, largely due to the demographics of drug use
in the capital and particularly in relation to the problems
faced by inner-London boroughs. Our south London
focus began to shift in 1997 with the establishment of the
UK Hepatitis C Resource Centre. As the name implies, this
'virtual centre' has a nationwide remit and utilises
Information Technology to provide a full range of information
and services via the Internet, email and telephone in addition to working directly with professionals and members of the public.
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