Calton Athletic recovery group was founded in 1985 in the East End of Glasgow as a football team and social club composed of recovering drug addicts. In 1991 the group moved into its first premises to establish a base and run run a day recovery programme.

The day programme was set up for addicts who wanted to quit drug and alcohol. To take part in the programme clients had to remain drug free from alcohol, drugs and criminal behaviour. They received individual and group counselling and take part in character building activities. Calton Athletic had a record number of 112 clients completing the program in one year. As well as guiding the programmes graduates into training and Employment there was also the provision of continuous aftercare in the form of evening meetings and weekend activities if anyone required it.

There was also a woman's service that offered counselling and activities for female addicts with a particular emphasis on re-entering employment. This project produced 20 new runners each year for the Glasgow woman's 10km race.

The pinnacle of the female project was when Calton Athletics' female recovering addicts took to the catwalk.

Davie Bryce gets the keys to the mini-bus