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Blue Cabin
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Blue Cabin helps care-experienced children build better, stronger relationships through artist-led creativity.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 19h
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...

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 1d
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...

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Pages of my life: Art, care and conversation
Join us for a thought-provoking workshop about art, identity and expression
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 2d
⭐ Six funders back Sunderland film-making project: Find out how six different funders are opening up new skills for young people in Sunderland.
Six funders back Sunderland film-making project - Blue Cabin
Support from six different funders has been brought together to enable care-experienced young people from Sunderland to learn new skills in film-making.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 5d
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! 💙

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Becky Young has joined Blue Cabin in the new role of senior operations lead.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 7d
✉️ 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! 💌
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 8d
As part of our Creative Aid project, working with care-experienced young men in HMP Deerbolt, Open Clasp Theatre Company visited the prison to screen their Key Change production. Open Clasp’s Catrina McHugh MBE describes what happened:

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 12d
The Blue Cabin team is growing! We’re so happy to welcome Becky Young to the new role of senior operations lead.

Meet Becky and find out more about her here: wearebluecabin.com/latest/new-s...
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Becky Young has joined Blue Cabin in the new role of senior operations lead.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 13d
This new episode of our @creativelsw.bsky.social podcast is out today!
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Creative Life Story Work @creativelsw.bsky.social · 13d
Think you're not a creative person? This episode of the Creative Life Story Work podcast is for you!

We talk to graphic artist Nic Golightly, who explains how everyone can take steps to incorporate creativity into direct work with children & young people. creativelifestorywork.com/resource/pod...
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 15d
The Alchemy Foundation, The Percy Hedley 1990 Charitable Trust, Sir John Priestman Charity Trust, Sunderland City Council, Margaret and Dorothy Gordon Memorial and Pattinson Estate Agents (both via The Community Foundation) — thank you all!

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Six funders back Sunderland film-making project - Blue Cabin
Support from six different funders has been brought together to enable care-experienced young people from Sunderland to learn new skills in film-making.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 15d
We’d like to thank the six brilliant funders who are supporting our latest project with care-experienced young people in #Sunderland.
Six funders back Sunderland film-making project - Blue Cabin
Support from six different funders has been brought together to enable care-experienced young people from Sunderland to learn new skills in film-making.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 20d
The artworks and film looked incredible and ensured that the voices of the care-experienced children and young people we support were heard and that their creativity was showcased - on a global stage!

Here are some photos from yesterday and we hope to share more soon. #UNGA80
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 20d
The event was hosted by Dame Barbara Woodward, the UK's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, with Catherine Russell, executive director of UNICEF, and Rt Hon David Lammy MP. We especially valued hearing the voices of people with lived experience of care at the event as well.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 20d
In advance of the event, we sent to New York artwork and creative writing by young men in HMP Deerbolt in County Durham, and a short film called All About Adoption, made by young people in Tees Valley.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 20d
Our director Jenny was invited to attend the launch of the Global Charter for Children’s Care Reform - she was honoured to represent the work of the entire Blue Cabin team and our partners and be the custodian of the creativity and stories of care experienced people we work alongside.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 20d
Yesterday was a surreal and memorable day for Blue Cabin as we saw film and artwork created by children and young people taking part in our projects take centre stage at the United Nations in New York.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 21d
Here's more on the Global Charter for Children’s Care Reform, which calls for world leaders to act together to deliver lasting change for future generations.
www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Global Charter on Children’s Care Reform
The UK government is working with international partners to transform children’s care systems and to ensure every child has the chance to grow up in a safe, loving family environment.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 21d
We’re incredibly proud to be invited and to share the voices and talents of the children and young people we work with🧡

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 21d
It is an honour to be the custodians of creative work produced by care-experienced children and young people taking part in some of Blue Cabin's projects, which will be on display at the event.

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 21d
Our director Jenny Young is in NYC to represent Blue Cabin at the official launch of the Global Charter for Children’s Care Reform at the UN General Assembly - hosted by the Deputy Prime Minister.

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 26d
Rachel from Redcar & Cleveland Virtual School attended last year's training day. Here she is, sharing a bit about what she learnt: wearebluecabin.com/latest/learn...
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 26d
The latest episode of our @creativelsw.bsky.social podcast is out now, and is all about adapting Therapeutic Life Story Work for adults ⬇️
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Creative Life Story Work @creativelsw.bsky.social · 26d
How can the Rose model of Therapeutic Life Story Work be adapted for use with adults? Find out in the newest episode of our podcast, as we talk with psychologist Amy Payne.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 27d
🎵 Last chance to book!

Learn how to help babies and children experience the benefits of music-making. Our training day on early years music-making takes place on Monday in Darlington. Have you booked your ticket?🎵

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This is the Place - A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making
Join Blue Cabin for the day to explore how and why music-making supports attachment and development for babies and children
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 28d
The brilliant @openclasp.bsky.social visited HMP Deerbolt to screen a play created with women in HMP Low Newton, to care-experienced young men in Deerbolt.

Here’s what happened: wearebluecabin.com/latest/open-...
Open Clasp, Deerbolt and me - Blue Cabin
Find out what happened when theatre company, Open Clasp, screened one of their productions at HMP Deerbolt.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 29d
Congratulations to our friends at The British Library, Leeds Children's Services, and all the young people involved in the partnership, which is now shortlisted for the Museums Change Lives Awards 👏

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Museums Change Lives Awards 2025 - Museums Association
Recognising and celebrating outstanding work by UK museums delivering social impact
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · Sep 15
Blue Cabin’s Waste Captain in action!

Administrator Dotty has led on gaining an insight into the amount and type of waste that’s produced through our various projects. You can read more about how we’re focusing on environmental sustainability here: wearebluecabin.com/sustainabili...