Yesterday Andy & Matt travelled to knowsley council to deliver x 2 2 hour keynote / training for social care, teachers, professionals from Knowsley Council It was a brilliant day engaging over 300 practitioners ensuring the session was engaging, interactive, real, informative and also FUN - YES we need to see more fun in social care as well as raise great practice and people [...]
Yesterday Director Matt was on the road at 5am, travelling solo to Barnsley, booked by the Youth Justice Team at Barnsley Council to deliver Smash Life training on the power of language and the words we use with young people and the words we write about them in reports. Andy who usually joins Matt was also booked to deliver training elsewhere that day so this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We are super excited to inform you that Smash Life Line Grant Funding is now available for young people in Shropshire to apply for that you maybe supporting! The first transfer window for applications will begin on February 1st 2024 and close on 15th March 2024. All the information and details on how young people aged between 14-25 can apply is on our Smash Life [...]
Children’s Interactive Talks Feedback! We absolutely LOVE engaging, interacting and inspiring children who are walking the path we did in care. Early January our mentor Courtney, Matt and Andy and travelled to Halifax Timeout Childrens Homes Ltd and spent a lovely day delivering fun, inspirational, engaging and informative sessions to a number of children in Timeouts care at the most wonderful of settings We [...]
We have WON another Award! The Smash Life Experiences Team Collected their award from The very First Shropshire Music Awards this week with the ceremony being held at The Place Oakengates Theatre Telford with around 300 people in attendance. We invited some of our fantastic partners to enjoy the evening with us as they have been integral to what we are trying to build here [...]
We are delighted to announce we have appeared in Social Work News in an article where we were both interviewed about our upbringing and our values in relation to our practice and why we do what we do! You can read the article by zooming into the image attached to this article or visiting the social work news website and visiting page 36 in [...]
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