Changing Relations

Changing Relations We are an arts education and training company that provokes thinking around gender equality, gender

Having some good chats with teachers at inclusion conference 😁
19/05/2026

Having some good chats with teachers at inclusion conference 😁

Getting ready for our stand at Schools North East Inclusion conference next week with some lovely new flyers about our s...
15/05/2026

Getting ready for our stand at Schools North East Inclusion conference next week with some lovely new flyers about our schools workshop offers (thank you Megan Watson 🤩).

Looking forward to chatting to lots of teachers!

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Eeeeee!Our new website is finally live!!!This has been such a huge amount of work over a really long period of time.Than...
13/05/2026

Eeeeee!

Our new website is finally live!!!

This has been such a huge amount of work over a really long period of time.

Thanks so much to Vida Creative for making it look so fab 🤩

Take a look folks - https://changingrelations.co.uk/

11/05/2026

Changing Relations is recruiting schools to take part in our A is for Amy education programme which addresses young people’s experiences of domestic abuse.

A is for Amy is a film which tells the story of Amy who experiences domestic abuse at the hands of her boyfriend and how, with the support of friends, trusted adults and external services, she escapes the abuse.

Checkout the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Rsvi6hB_o

The film is used as the basis of an education programme which uses creative stimuli and activities to help young people:
⭐Understand what healthy and unhealthy relationships might look like
⭐Recognise different forms of abuse and neglect
⭐Understand that abusing someone is a choice and that other choices can be made
⭐Understand the importance of positive friendships
⭐Understand where and how they can access help

A is for Amy was coproduced with young people and, although fictional, is based on young people's experiences and observations.

The programme that sits beside it was developed with young people, teachers, school pastoral workers and youth workers.

The programme is appropriate for young people in school years 9-13 and is suitable for delivery in a variety of different formats (e.g. full class, small groups and drop down days).

It is designed for school staff to be able to deliver in house.

Training for teachers/pastoral teams and access to all programme resources will be provided free of charge to participating schools in academic year 2026-27.

Changing Relations will be holding online information sessions for interested schools on Wednesday 17-06-26 at 4pm

To attend the information session and/or find out more about the programmes/how to participate please contact:
[email protected]

The A is for Amy programme is generously supported by funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation , Arts Council England , North East Combined Authority , NHS, The National Lottery Community Fund , BAM Construction Ltd, Barbour and Gaunless Gateway.

Just want to take a moment to shout out to our gorgeously fabulous facilitation team - - beautifully captured for us ...
04/05/2026

Just want to take a moment to shout out to our gorgeously fabulous facilitation team - - beautifully captured for us here by the lovely .

These lasses have worked SO hard over the last academic year, consulting with our partner schools, carefully considering how to achieve learning on some really sensitive themes in a way that is fun and engaging. They're brought all their creativity and reflective thinking to the table to develop beautifully layered, iterative schemes of work that gradually build up children and young people's social emotional skills and insight. The timeline was super tight and the pilot delivery has been intense.

Particularly massive shout out to Sarah who has taken the lead on our education programme development, tirelessly pulling all the threads together behind-the-scenes, which she will in the next months be collating into educator toolkits to support the next phase of our A is for Amy / Sometimes it Hurts programme delivery, whereby we hand over to school and youth group partners to deliver what we have developed for themselves.

Can't wait to see it all come together.

Lasses you should all be very proud 💖 💖 💖

hereI know we've already done an "oooh we won an award" post. But look - it came with a trophy!!!Here we are with our l...
29/04/2026

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I know we've already done an "oooh we won an award" post.

But look - it came with a trophy!!!

Here we are with our lush Primary School partners at St John's School in Benwell, reviewing the last term of pilot delivery of our Sometimes it Hurts programme with their KS2 children as well as our partners at Copeland Road Primary School in West Auckland and Edmondsley Primary Academy near Chester-le-Street.

It was so moving to hear about the children's development of a really nuanced and complex insight into emotions, including how it can be possible to feel conflicting feelings at once and the strategies they can use to soothe themselves and support their friends.

And to feel how much our partner teachers appreciated what we had shared with them and how keen they are to continue implementing this content in the next phase of development where it will be on them to deliver in place of our wonderful creative facilitators and .

Very proud.

But also slightly embarrassed that everyone told me I had to do a pose with the trophy as if I was holding the FA Cup 😆

Thanks so much to the North East Museums & North East and North Cumbria Child Health and Wellbeing Network teams for our lovely Chris Drinkwater award trophy! We are very chuffed.

Did you know that it's the International Day for Health and Safety in the Workplace tomorrow?We just thought we'd drop i...
27/04/2026

Did you know that it's the International Day for Health and Safety in the Workplace tomorrow?

We just thought we'd drop in to flag our upcoming Invisible Visible Management Workshop which aims to help you reimagine disability and create a workplace culture that enables all of your staff to thrive.

The workshop is based around Invisible Visible - a digital exhibition we supported artist Hope Caitlin to develop that explores disability and the barriers to workplace inclusion.

Our Management workshop will use Hope's beautiful artwork as a creative way to explore our understanding of disability in the workplace, considering the challenges faced by those with experience of disability but also the unique contribution they are able to make.

We aim to:

🫶 Foster a deeper understanding between professional leaders and disabled employees, creating a space of safe and inclusive communication
🫶 Enable you to recognise the often invisible barriers that prevent your disabled employees from thriving
🫶 Identify actionable steps to improve work life balance as it pertains to disability and chronic illness

Thanks so much to for hosting this in-person workshop -

🏛️ in the lovely Learning Centre attached to the Palace Green Library
🕰️ on Tuesday 2nd June from 12pm - 2pm

We just have 4 places left so don't miss out!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/invisible-visible-management-workshop-tickets-1985058992884

If you would be interested in a webinar iteration of this workshop please drop us a DM and we'll make a plan to schedule something together online as an alternative option where this feels more convenient / accessible 🙏

hereAfter years of seeing disinvestment in the arts across our education system - not seen as the best choice to lead y...
24/04/2026

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After years of seeing disinvestment in the arts across our education system - not seen as the best choice to lead young people into the careers we supposedly want within our economy - I was cautiously optimistic to read this article citing Alan Milburn's current review into young people and work -

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/20/exam-obsessed-school-system-unprepared-work-alan-milburn

This bit in particular jumped out at me -

"He also argued that in a fast-changing labour market, schools needed to do more to equip young people with “communication and collaboration skills, agility and creativity” alongside formal qualifications."

Creativity you say?!?

I would so love for our education system to fall back in love with arts subjects.

Whether or not they lead to a career in the culture sector...

(side note - this is a sector that makes a valid contribution to our economy 😊)
.. there are some really important skills for life (and work) that are developed through art, music, drama, creative writing, design...

They allow us to use our brain in different ways. To take an explorative approach that is useful for problem-solving. To see things from different perspectives, which enables ideas for new approaches to entrenched problems.

At Changing Relations we love to use the arts as the tool for exploring tricky topics because it feels less didactic, that we're not telling people how to think on subjects they tend to have strong feelings about.

But we also know that the very act of developing a young person's creative muscle is valuable to their ability to think in a workplace context where reproducing knowledge is just not enough.

More arting please!!!!!

Come and join us!!!This is just a little reminder of the deadline for submitting applications to join our Board as a Non...
22/04/2026

Come and join us!!!

This is just a little reminder of the deadline for submitting applications to join our Board as a Non-Exec Director with a view to becoming a Trustee as we transition to charitable status.

Please send a written application...

🕰️ by midnight on Mon 4 May

📧 to [email protected]
..telling us why you are interested in joining our Board, outlining the key skills, understanding, and experience you could bring to our organisation in no more than 600 words.

The rest of the blurb is here - https://changingrelations.co.uk/board-recruitment-2026/

Credit to for the lovely illustrations showing our current Board who will be sifting through everything that comes our way 😄

Looking forward to hearing from you folks!

Kate here...In the coming weeks we have reflection days with the educators (teachers, youth workers, pastoral staff, cre...
20/04/2026

Kate here...

In the coming weeks we have reflection days with the educators (teachers, youth workers, pastoral staff, creative facilitators) that we have been working with on our A is for Amy – Sometimes it Hurts project.

I am trying to prepare these days to make sure that we can learn the absolute most we can from them. Prepping for things like this feels like it shouldn’t be all that time consuming, but it really is. I realise that I am trying to distil a huge amount of information that sits in my head into a format that will facilitate discussion. It’s so important that we all think about the good and the bad…and the things which are just OK too.

I’m also speaking to some of the children and young people about their assessment of the programme so that their perspective can be woven in too (on top of the observations that have been made along the way of their engagement and the things they have said). If I’m honest – these conversations are some of my favourites because they really know how to tell it how it is! 🙃

The careful consideration, the different perspectives – this is what makes sure that we can create an education programme that really meets the needs of the children and young people participating in it and the educators who will deliver it.

[Image shows one of my favourite reflections, it's an art work at Baltic in Gateshead and it makes me smile every time I visit. The mirror is placed at the bottom of their stairwell and the further you go up the more endless the stairs look in the mirror]

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