We were delighted to be invited by Worcester Virtual School to deliver our post 16 smash life into independence project to young people in the care system. The four days were fun and full of education , we forcussed on lots of topics for the young people like healthy eating, budgeting, car maintenance, relationships, managing loneliness and mental health, team building games, inspirational talks [...]
Well we are gearing up for our third year of running our Smash Life & Bridge Cheese Funday event on Saturday 20th June 2026 in Shropshire! Working closely with Bridge Cheese a company with a huge heart and Telford & Shrewsbury Virtual School Teams our staff team can't wait to support the day . Creating memories for children in care who may never had the [...]
Last week Matt travelled to Barnsley and delivered to over 100 professionals at Barnsley Council social care staff development forum. The theme was Language, the words professionals use, how they write, record why it matters, how things are recorded & how it feels from a care experienced professional reflecting on what was said & written in our files - it becomes your internal voice… Matt [...]
We are delighted to announce we will be speaking at ARC's South West Regional Conference in Bath in July 2025. The theme of the conference is relationships and belonging and we can't wait to jump on stage and deliver another motivational keynote speech with some powerful messages based on our lived experience and combined 50 years in practice with young people in and out of [...]
As we head into half term we have some woodland days to look forward to with young people and our amazing smash life staff team! We have kickstarted the year with loads of training , keynote talks and mentoring as well as our Dudley post 16 group work ! So if you have a group of young people or a staff team who would benefit [...]
Smash Life We Really do appreciate this feedback from Shropshire Council Virtual School regarding our “woodland experience” for children We BELIEVE in not just talking about connection and relational approaches BUT modelling this when it matters the most - SO the children FEEL it. A connection is earned through repetition and the children feeling safe, secure, valued and around adults invested in them. We LOVE [...]
We are very fortunate we have developed our mentoring service over the last six years. We have been mentioned in two Outstanding OFSTED reports for Children & Young Peoples Services. We have also supported well over 1000 young people in that time in mentoring and our group work projects. So when our old corporate parent who we have been working alongside and supporting young people [...]
Smash Life Welcome back everyone to the Academic Year 2024/25 - we have certainly arrived back with a BANG ! We were invited on Monday to travel to Dudley and deliver our “Through The Eyes Of A Child In Pain” training to Milking Bank Primary School & a neighbouring school - it was lovely to provide this training to the WHOLE school as supporting, caring [...]
OFSTED RATED OUTSTANDING! Smash Life were delighted to be informed by our wonderful virtual school partners at Telford & Wrekin Council that the Children’s Services had been rated ‘Outstanding’ by a recent OFSTED inspection. Why are we shouting about this? Smash Life was given its first opportunity by this local authority when a lot of other doors closed and professional’s waved away the ‘Lived [...]
Fresh off Andy & Matts appearance alongside Ashley John Baptiste at The ARC National Conference in Birmingham (see feedback in the image) the lads then travelled to Manchester to deliver a keynote to Professionals from The Department For Education. These professionals write the policies that the whole education school system/professionals must follow ! Andy and Matt made sure to deliver a passionate talk, taking vital [...]
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