Help to design and shape future alcohol support services in North Northamptonshire
Drug and alcohol support24 June 2025
North Northamptonshire Council's Public Health team is looking for your help to design and shape future alcohol support services which best meet the needs of its residents.
They are asking for residents who are interested to complete a short anonymous and confidential online questionnaire on the council’s website.
The multiple-choice questions centre around drinking frequency, consumption and behaviours. The team is also keen to have an insight into locations where residents consume alcohol, and where they buy it. They are also looking to discover if challenges including Dry January or Going Sober for October are successful in our area and whether or not they have a longer-term effect. Key to the survey are also questions around possible harmful drinking and where residents might currently turn to if they feel they need support.
Residents feedback will inform and support future planning and design of alcohol support services and help them:
- understand levels and patterns of people’s alcohol intake which can vary significantly between different populations
- compare these local results with national surveys conducted
- take effective action on alcohol-related harms and identify key priorities for improving services and planning future support
The Public Health team is keen to hear from people living across North Northamptonshire to help us gain an insight about people’s drinking behaviours and patterns, including the reasons people choose not to drink alcohol.Cllr Barry O’Brien, North Northamptonshire Council’s Executive Member for Health and Leisure
Your views will be included in an Alcohol Needs Assessment which provides valuable insight into how alcohol use, misuse and dependency is impacting the local population's health and wellbeing with additional evidence gathered from data provided by local and national partners, stakeholder views and research.
Your responses will be carefully analysed and combined with other data to guide decisions about funding, service improvements, and future planning. All answers are anonymous, and no one will be able to identify you from your responses.
This survey closes at 23.59 on 27 July 2025.
Please visit the Council’s Drug and Alcohol support website page which has information about current support services and how to contact them, should you need to seek any professional support if you feel your alcohol intake is causing problems or alternatively discuss with your GP.