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 [...]
Smash Life Directors Andy & Matt travelled to the North East last week to deliver a powerful honest lived experience and professional keynote talk and a one hour interactive training session at a Primary School Headteachers Conference in Gateshead. Delivering an interactive session where participants had to work together to think about ares of their practice where they had to self reflect and work together [...]
Last week we made the long trip to Northumberland and provided a keynote speech at the @nlandcc virtual school conference. We presented on “Relationships and Language that cares” to professionals from social care, early help and schools from the area” We were able to weave stories, strategies and inspiration from: - Our childhood in care / lived experience (feeling how others connected and what they [...]
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 [...]
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 had the privilege to travel to Wilmslow & attend Care Today Leadership conference and deliver a motivating and empowering keynote. It was lovely to be invited after a representative from Care today saw us deliver at the Children’s Homes Association conference earlier this year. Care Today are the largest family run residential childcare organisation in the UK and have been working extensively [...]
Affinity’s Got Talent !! 🎤🎶🎸 Matt woke up super early and travelled down South heading to Ingatestone Hall the home of the fantastic AFFINITY FOSTERING SERVICES LTD as he was booked by this amazing company to deliver a motivational interactive talk to all the foster / birth children from the families that this super company that goes the extra mile support ! The weather was [...]
Andy & Matt recently travelled to Derbyshire to deliver a powerful keynote around education to lots of professionals from schools who attended the Derbyshire Virtual School Attachment Relational Aware Schools Conference. Andy and Matt are on the ground in schools every week along with the Smash Life staff so designing a talk which gives key points of learning for staff around education is one Smash [...]
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 [...]
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