Recovery Rovers: Community helping people around the world

PAUL has 12,000 TikTok followers who tune into his live morning and evening sessions to listen to him speak.

He added: “I am not your average TikTok user who monetises from the platform, for me, it’s about giving people information.”

Mr Simmons has a large number of UK and American listeners visiting his Pauldrugmentor account and is a huge Bristol Rovers fan so calls his community ‘Recovery Rovers’.

“I worked with the Bristol Rovers Community Trust BTEC students, the Kickstart program run by Bristol Rovers and I’m in talks with the local schools to see how I can help the children avoid county lines and all drug-related behaviour,” he added.

Today, he is “living his best life” after finding a place in society where he can encourage others to turn their lives around.

He said: “When I was homeless in Broadmead all I ever wanted was someone to love me and to have a place to call home.

“Now, I have that dream and I am able to use my past as a warning to others who are on the edge of wasting their lives. I am living the best life with my partner Zasha and my beautiful boys Frankie (eight) and Lindon (six. Helping others is amazing.”