• Trauma and the body

    Published On: 05/23/20257 min read

    O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee! Macbeth, Shakespeare Development Officer Rachel Osborne explores the physiological implications of trauma with reference to The Body Keeps the Score, considering how this ...

  • Psychological safety: The bedrock of “great work”

    Published On: 04/25/20255.9 min read

    Building on our the last blog post “Embracing Failure”, this article focusses on the importance of creating psychological safety, particularly to help fuel thriving organisational practice and performance. Overview Psychological safety is the belief, in ...

  • Embracing Failure

    Published On: 03/18/20254.8 min read

    We need a radically different approach to failure. So argues Matthew Syed in his book “Black Box Thinking” as he presents the need to reframe failure as an essential springboard for growth. Drawing on this ...

  • Forgiveness and freedom

    Published On: 02/14/20255.6 min read

    Forgiveness and freedom: the most difficult of all lessons  Founder Mike Farrington explores how we might support young people in their deeply personal choices about processing traumatic experiences.  Introduction   “The picture [above] is seared into ...

  • Benefits of hosting

    Published On: 01/14/20253.1 min read

    10 benefits of being a Supported Lodgings hostOur amazing Room to Spare hosts love the energy and vitality of having a young person around, being a part of their life story, sharing the dog walking ...

  • Generation Z

    Published On: 11/19/20246.2 min read

    Our western culture and Generation Z Generation Z (– young people born between 1997 and 2012) are being observed with curiosity and concern. Sometimes coined ‘Generation Anxiety’, they seem to be manifesting mental health problems, ...

  • Mental Health, Care Leavers and You

    Published On: 10/24/20244.2 min read

    The Care Cliff This month we were delighted to be able to officially launch our partnership with BetterHelp that will enable 100 care-experience young people (18-30) to be able to access free, weekly, online therapy ...

  • Back To School

    Published On: 09/23/20243.2 min read

    Back to School: The Difference Following a nail-biting but successful A-level results day in August, two young people from our Supported Lodgings scheme have headed to university to embark on their undergraduate studies.  This includes ...

  • Ten things to do

    Published On: 07/25/20245.6 min read

    “Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love”. These are the words of psychiatrist and leading expert on trauma-informed care Bruce Perry. We wholeheartedly agree but how do ...

  • The Teenage Brain

    Published On: 06/11/20248.1 min read

    Adolescence (from the Latin adolescere or ‘to grow into maturity’) is widely understood to mean the period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult. In ...