Matt & Andy Smith will be hosting the National Children Homes Award Ceremony in Birmingham later this year as part of the CHA 2026 Conference. A huge thank you to Mark and the team at the Children’s Homes Association for inviting us to be part of such an important event. We genuinely can’t wait to bring a little bit of that Smash Life energy to [...]
Director Matt was flown to Poland by The Informed Perspective (Jenny & Penny) to host a conference at the American school of Warsaw - Jeremy Indika delivered the conference and it was entitled 'Are You Really Listening?' - tickets were bought by parents and young people . It proved to be a powerful event where Matt not only hosted but shared elements of his journey [...]
We are delighted to announce that we are to feature in this months Foster Talk magazine - which has a 40,000 subscription base - we are so grateful for this opportunity to share our messages to foster carers who are looking after amazing young people now - pick up your copy today or read it online ! Thank you for the opportunity Foster Talk [...]
Andy & Matt went down a storm at the first ever annual Gateshead Virtual School Conference ! The lads travelled up north to deliver a powerful and dynamic keynote talk to a room full of professionals and the feedback has been amazing ! The lads have been booked for lots of training and keynote talks in 2025/26 and can't wait to get out there and [...]
The Art of the Possible: The Children's Homes Association's 2025 Annual Conference Following the resounding success of our 2024 conference, we're thrilled to announce the CHA 2025 Conference, taking place on 1-2 July 2025 at the stunning Belfry Resort and Hotel near Birmingham. This promises to be our most inspiring, energising, and empowering event yet. Here's why you won't want to miss it:Transformational Learning and Networking 🔹 Two full days packed with expert [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Foster Carer Training Feedback! Last Friday Matt & Andy we’re invited to spend the day with foster carers from Nexus Fostering in Telford We were able to use our lived experience and our many years in social care working alongside professionals and foster carers to deliver training which we hope educated, informed and inspired. We loved our time with the foster carers - sometimes like [...]
Directors Andy & Matt were in London delivering a Keynote talk for teachers, designated teachers and professionals at the Ealing Council Virtual School Conference. It was lovely to deliver a “Through the eyes of a child in care” talk to remind everyone of the realities many children that are suffering in life face - challenges we face and STILL see - beyond the school gates [...]
Smash Life didn't stop during Easter ! Andy, Matt & Smash Life Mentor Dee started off in Dudley to deliver the second Smashing Life Into Independence Project to post 16 young people in care. Workshops on budgeting , car maintenance, cooking, independent living schools and much more were delivered over a two week period to an enthusiastic group identified by Dudley Virtual School - big [...]
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