📣We are looking for up to three new Trustees to join the Blue Cabin board! Find all the details here: wearebluecabin.com/latest/recru...

We're so happy to welcome Rohima Celine to the Blue Cabin board as a Trustee! Rohima first joined us last year as a trainee Trustee and she's now a full member of the board💙 Here's a bit more about Rohima: wearebluecabin.com/people/rohim...

NEW: Time Never Stops is a new virtual exhibition, showcasing art made by care-experienced young men in HMP Deerbolt. Find out more and explore the exhibition now: wearebluecabin.com/latest/time-... @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

NEW: We’ve been working with @cfabuk.bsky.social and @tlswuk.bsky.social International to develop guidance for life story work practitioners, social workers and interpreters working with refugee and asylum seeking young people. The resources are free and you can access them at the links below ⬇️

Our monthly Blue Cabin newsletter, with all our latest news and opportunities, will go out next week. If you'd like a copy in your inbox, sign up here: eepurl.com/hyAth9

Alison McGowan is a puppeteer and a child psychotherapist; Nic Golightly is a graphic artist who dabbles in design and illustration. Both are associate artists with Blue Cabin and have been paired together as part of our ‘buddying’ system.

As a small charity, with staff working from home, we’ve faced some challenges in calculating our carbon footprint and starting our #sustainability journey. Find out how we’ve overcome them here: wearebluecabin.com/latest/3-cha...

If you attended our Creative Aid event last year you'll have met Andy West - and he's behind this current, highly acclaimed drama which you can see on the BBC now:

Happy new year everyone! Here's a whistle-stop overview of just some of Blue Cabin's work in 2024/25. Want to know more? We've collaborated with the brilliant team at tialt to produce our full impact report and you can see that on our website now: wearebluecabin.com/our-impact/b...

Care experienced young people in Newcastle worked with Blue Cabin associate artist, Nic Golightly, to make this brilliant Happy Zine, filled with things that make them happy. Enjoy! See their full zine here: wearebluecabin.com/project/make...

Can letters help us say things that might be difficult to discuss in person? In this episode of our podcast, Ciara McClelland from shares her perspective on letter-writing techniques. Listen online, or wherever you get your podcasts: creativelifestorywork.com/resource/pod...

Once again we've collaborated with tialt to look at the impact of Blue Cabin's work over the last year, and we're all very proud to share this year's impact report. wearebluecabin.com/our-impact/b...

❄️The Blue Cabin office will be closed for a two week break, from Monday 22 December 2025 to Friday 2 January 2026. We'll be back from Monday 5 January. We wish everyone a peaceful, restful time this Christmas and New Year! ❄️

Blue Cabin is helping to preserve the legacy of theatre company Curious Monkey – including a set of films exploring different perspectives on family contact within the care system. Find out more about the films here: wearebluecabin.com/resource/cur... @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social

Rohima is a trustee-in-training with Blue Cabin. Find out how Rohima’s using her own lived experience to help shape the role of trustee: wearebluecabin.com/latest/bring... #CEP

How can a charity like Blue Cabin gather data on energy usage and sustainability when we all work from home? Find out how we overcame this and two other challenges we’ve faced in our sustainability journey: wearebluecabin.com/latest/3-cha...

Care-experienced young people in #Gateshead have the chance to try their hand at a range of art forms, supported by professional artists – thanks to funding from the Gateshead VCSE Fund at the Community Foundation North East. wearebluecabin.com/latest/gates...

Our latest podcast episode is out now!

Just over six months ago, we welcomed four new faces to the Blue Cabin team: our Care-Experienced Consultants. Now, Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha shares what it’s been like for her to take on this new role. wearebluecabin.com/latest/what-... #CEP

If you'd like to see creative work like this brilliant film more often, you can signup to receive our monthly newsletter here: eepurl.com/hyAth9

Here is another brilliant short film which care-experienced film-makers in Northumberland made this summer, working alongside two of Blue Cabin's associate artists, Alison McGowan and Laura Degnan. We're proud to present...Puppets' Got Talent! youtu.be/KA3Q3C_h4Wk?...

You might know that our director, Jenny Young, was invited to attend the launch of the Global Charter Launch for Children’s Care Reform in New York last month.

It was an honour to represent @bluecabin.bsky.social for this prestigious award. The #CYPNowAwards showcase innovative and outstanding practice in the children's services sector. We were rubbing shoulders with amazing people and organisations.

Three of our team, Lucy Ridley, Katie Doherty and Carol Bowden, were absolutely honoured to pick up a Children & Young People Now award on Friday for our This is the Place project. #CYPNowAwards @bowders.bsky.social

🎉🎉This is the Place has been named as the winner in this year's Children & Young People Now awards' Early Years category! 🎉🎉 We're so proud of everyone involved in this project; thank you Children & Young People Now for this wonderful recognition 💛

We are very excited to be at the @Children & Young People Now Awards tonight! Our early years music-making project, This is the Place, is a finalist in the Early Years category. Here are project manager Lucy and musicians Carol and Katie in their finery! #CYPNowAwards @bowders.bsky.social

We weren't winners this time but loved seeing Blue Cabin up on the big screen. Congratulations to all of this year's winners!

Our team are out and about today! Senior Operations Lead Becky and Trustee Sedil are with Investors in the Environment in Peterborough. Today's the Sustainability at Work panel, followed by the Investors in the Environment 2025 Awards (which we're shortlisted in🤞)

Piercing The Sky is a celebration of artwork and creative writing by care-experienced young artists in HMP Deerbolt and we’re proud to be able to share artworks from it. You can explore the online exhibition here: wearebluecabin.com/resource/pie... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk

Blue Cabin's Care-Experienced Consultants challenge, shape and strengthen our work, and help make sure that care-experienced voices are heard. Here’s Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha with an insight into her first six months in the role. wearebluecabin.com/latest/what-... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk

As well as this week's Investors in the Environment (iiE) awards, we're looking forward to the Children & Young People Now Awards, where our early years music-making project is shortlised 🎉 #CYPNowAwards

Meet Rohima Celine, a creative professional and care leaver who will join Blue Cabin’s board as a trainee trustee. #Careleaversmonth wearebluecabin.com/latest/bring... @becomecharity.org.uk

How can lived experience help shape, challenge and strengthen the work of a charity like Blue Cabin? Here’s the opinion of one of our Care Experienced Consultants, Jane McPhail. wearebluecabin.com/latest/how-c... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk

📙 Our Book of the Month was recommended by one of @bluecabin.bsky.social's Care Experienced Consultants, Jane McPhail - thank you Jane! It's 'In my own words' by Lillybelle, and puts you in Lillybelle's shoes as she reflects on her own adoption journey. creativelifestorywork.com/latest/in-my...

3 challenges we’ve faced in our sustainability journey: find out more from two of Blue Cabin’s sustainability champions, Jane Gray and Amy Armstrong: wearebluecabin.com/latest/3-cha...

📽️ Grab a cuppa & enjoy this short film by young people in Northumberland 📽️ Care-experienced children learnt puppetry and film-making skills with our associate artists, Laura Degnan & Alison McGowan - and here's their first film, Puppet Song! youtu.be/ASnuMi5BcuU?...

💌Every month our Blue Cabin newsletter includes all our latest opportunities and news. Want to get a copy in your inbox? You can sign up here: eepurl.com/hyAth9

It's #TrusteesWeek and we want to thank our brilliant team of Blue Cabin Trustees for their time, support and expertise which they generously give, to help Blue Cabin. Thank you Adam Kent, Adele Brown, Alexandria Bradley, Catherine Hearne, Mark Dibble, Sedil Kilic and Wendy Price 💙

🌿 Blue Cabin has achieved Silver Investors in the Environment accreditation! This is our second year working with Investors in the Environment and the team has supported us to embed positive environmental action throughout the organisation. wearebluecabin.com/latest/silve...

How can a play co-created with women in HMP Low Newton help young men in HMP Deerbolt make sense of their own stories? Here’s @openclasp.bsky.social's @catrinamc.bsky.social with an account of a screening in Deerbolt Prison, as part of our Creative Aid project. wearebluecabin.com/latest/open-...

Thank to everyone who came along to our online event last week, exploring artworks created by care-experienced young men in Deerbolt Prison. If you missed it, you can explore the virtual exhibition of their latest work here: wearebluecabin.com/resource/pie... @thoughtfulp4c.bsky.social

We've been exploring the resources that Winston's Wish have available for people affected by grief and bereavement. They have a wonderful toolkit for teens and young people which you can access here: www.talkgrief.org/grief-toolkit @winstonswish.bsky.social

🎖️Award opportunity! The Chris Drinkwater Award is open for entries now, celebrating collaborations between education and the arts, to address health and wellbeing in primary schools. Find more info here, via @northeastmuseums.bsky.social: www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/learn/chris-...

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Blue Cabin’s work with care-experienced people is rooted in #socialpedagogy – a relationship-centred way of working which seeks to recognise and promote individual potential.

Issue three of Sounding Board, the Journal of Community Music, is out now, and it includes a look at Blue Cabin's use of supervision with creative practitioners. Take a look: sway.cloud.microsoft/GfcP759XDVV5... @bowders.bsky.social

Explore a virtual exhibition of artworks by young men in Deerbolt Prison, and join us as we reflect on what it means to create art as a care-experienced person in prison. This free event is open to all - book your spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pages-of-m... @saperep4c.bsky.social

⭐ Six funders back Sunderland film-making project: Find out how six different funders are opening up new skills for young people in Sunderland.

Meet Becky Young, Blue Cabin’s new senior operations lead! Becky will oversee the smooth running of Blue Cabin and will help champion our trauma-informed approach. Welcome to the team, Becky! 💙 wearebluecabin.com/latest/new-s...

✉️ At our training day on early years music-making we wrote postcards to send to ourselves, to remind us to put what we learnt into action! Thank you to everyone who came along, and look out for your reminders coming through your letterboxes soon! 💌