16/10/2026
The Grand Opening this afternoon!
The new shed has given us two new spaces: a Wellbeing Workshop and a one-to-one tuition room (particularly for Maths and English).
Beth Miller, one of our specialist therapeutic practitioners: “Charlotte Webby and I, we share this space – we have half the week each. Webby is very arty, does a lot of craft things and art therapy stuff. I'm more of a nurturer, and do more development work. We've both been trained in Emotion Coaching, and we've got our Personal Development Programme that we've started, that we do with children.
“And, for example, here’s the model of the brain that we teach children about: the different parts of the brain and how they work, so when they are feeling overwhelmed or upset they can understand why. And we teach them strategies for coping.”
Julia: “When children start with us, they often can’t talk about their issues at all – but after a while they are asking to come in here.
“When we applied for the grant to fund this work, three years ago, I thought perhaps 10 children would access it a week, 10 out of 30. We now have 35 children a week, and over half are accessing it, which is remarkable, isn't it?
“This new space makes it all so much better. I don't know how we managed without it!”
Pictured with Julia: Mary Anne Scadding (who donated the shed) cuts the ‘ribbon’ (it’s bailer twine, of course, for us) on the Wellbeing Workshop, with Angus Stormonth Darling, trustee for a cousin's charitable trust which funded the reconstruction and fitting out, and Andy and Matt, our tutors who did all the work with the students. And Beth shows Mary Anne and Angus the facilities.
Grateful thanks to Mary Anne Scadding, and to the Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust which has consistently supported us with annual grants over the past few years.
