Growing Me CIC

14/02/2026

Exciting meetings in London on Wednesday, wonderful Making Day yesterday, and lots of planning, developing and delivering in between...

We're having a slower work week to make some half term family memories.

Have fun, and see you next week 😊

09/02/2026

All is very busy at Growing Me - we're beavering away on preparing toolkits (There's another Making Day this Friday 10-2 if you want to get involved!), delivering toolkits and training, setting up pilots, university projects and more...

Here's another snippet from the film... You can see the full four minute version here: https://growingme.org.uk/how-growing-me-works/

05/02/2026

04/02/2026

Fewer than one third of adult adoptees say they know where they can access adoptee-competent counselling, mental health and therapeutic services (Adoption Barometer 2025). What has your experience been? Please take 10 minutes to share your views in this year’s annual Adoption Barometer survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AdoptionBarometer2026

03/02/2026

Here's a little snippet from our Growing Me film - thanks to the very talented film maker, Gavin Repton (https://www.gavinrepton.com) for creating this!

You can see the full film on our website: https://growingme.org.uk/how-growing-me-works/

28/01/2026

🎉 New year, new us — we’re back! 🎉

📢 We’re looking for Volunteer Advisors! 📢

After far too long away, we’re excited to be back — and with a growing number of people registering an interest in volunteering, we need you to help us support them.

As a Volunteer Advisor, you’ll:
☎️ Make friendly telephone calls
🤝 Support people on their volunteering journey
✨ Help match volunteers with opportunities that suit their skills.
🏠 Support the team at local events
➕ Plus many more ways to get involved– Contact us for the full role description!

With Volunteer Advisors in place, we'll be able to bring back face-to-face appointments! 🙌

💬 Interested?

☎ Call: 01332 227712
📩 Email: stef.jowle@communityactionderby.org.uk
🔗 Apply online: https://volunteer.communityactionderby.org.uk/.../10201377

We look forward to hearing from you!

27/01/2026

Incredibly productive session yesterday afternoon/evening with a group of care-experienced families...

This group are helping us design a piece of research into the feasibility of Growing Me. We had 11 participants, including children and adults. Their thoughtful, honest contributions, will feed in to a full research bid that we've been invited to submit... watch this space!

20/01/2026

Last week, we had the pleasure of meeting Clare from Diversity Days, Everyday (https://www.diversity-days.co.uk). Equality and diversity is really important to us at Growing Me and we want to ensure that we are inclusive to all those who we work with, whether volunteers, customers, or collaborators. The world is a richer place when we embrace the breadth of different experiences of culture, race, gender, ability, sexuality and age.

Clare's approach is personable and compassionate and we can't wait to continue working together as we grow Growing Me 🙂

16/01/2026

Today's Making Day has been a fantastic end to a busy but brilliant week for Growing Me!

Next Making Day is 13th Feb (note change of date due to half term)

09/01/2026

Feedback Friday! 😁 😁

For the full testimonial: https://growingme.org.uk/elementor-1891/

07/01/2026

Growing Me is a physical toolkit and digital guide that nurtures an existing relationship between a child and their trusted adult, with a 10 session journey packed with fun animations, therapeutic games and creative activities.

Our mission is to bring a body of work recommended for many care-experienced children (Therapeutic Life Story Work) into the hands of those who know and care for a child best.

We believe...

🤾‍♀️ ...Learning is best when a child is feeling safe and having fun.

🫶 ...Relational trauma is resoloved through relationships

💪 ...Many adults (not just therapists!) are capable of providing much of the therapeutic input these children need if they are given the time and resources to do so.

31/12/2025

Thank you to all of you for a fantastic 2025... Looking forward to growing Growing Me in 2026!

We wish the fantastic care experienced community, and all of you wonderful people who support them the very best for 2026.