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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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...

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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.

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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...

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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...

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

In it you'll find an overview of the difference we are making, plus deep dives into some of our projects. Thank you to everyone who's helped us make a positive impact on care-experienced people's lives 💙

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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...

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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.

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This is the Place uses music-making to help care-experienced babies and children build attachments with the adults in their lives. We deliver it with our partners at Darlington Borough Council and Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council and with support from Youth Music. @youthmusic.bsky.social

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🎉🎉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 💛

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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🤞)

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

💌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

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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 💙

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🎖️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 @bluecabin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

💙 Would you like to receive Blue Cabin's latest news and opportunities in your inbox every month? If so, you can sign up to receive our newsletter here: eepurl.com/hyAth9

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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: wearebluecabin.com/latest/open-... @openclasp.bsky.social

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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 · 25/09/2025

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 · 25/09/2025

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 · 25/09/2025

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 · 24/09/2025

We’re incredibly proud to be invited and to share the voices and talents of the children and young people we work with🧡 #UNGA80

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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. #UNGA80

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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. #UNGA80

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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...

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

🧡 Get news, events and opportunities from Blue Cabin in your inbox each month. Sign up to receive our regular newsletter here: eepurl.com/hyAth9

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🎵 On 22 Sept we're holding a training day on early years music-making 🎵 Here's an insight into what you will learn, from Rachel Oliphant of Redcar & Cleveland Virtual School, who attended our previous training day. wearebluecabin.com/latest/learn...

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Here’s a selection of creations the Blue Cabin team made using fungi and waste materials, with guidance from Adam Cooper of Threads in the Ground. Adam and his colleagues are brilliant at inspiring people of all ages to think about climate change, climate hope, and how we can be good ancestors.

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Rachel Oliphant from Redcar & Cleveland Virtual School attended our previous training day all about early years music-making. She shares a little bit about what she learnt, and how music can support care-experienced children’s relationships and development. wearebluecabin.com/latest/learn...

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🎉This is the Place, our early years music-making programme with Darlington Council and Redcar and Cleveland Council, is shortlisted in this year's #CYPNowAwards!🎉 You can see all the brilliant finalists here: cypnowawards.com/childrenandy... @bowders.bsky.social

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Find out more about our two newest board members, Dr Alexandria Bradley and Adele Brown, who joined Blue Cabin as Trustees in July: wearebluecabin.com/latest/two-n...

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Our team are home-based, but we deliver lots of creative projects with partners, so Blue Cabin administrator, Dotty has taken on the role of Waste Captain, gathering snapshots of waste generated – and making sure we’re recycling and reusing where we can. Thank you Dotty!

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

As part of Blue Cabin’s focus on #sustainability, we had lots of discussions about how we can gauge the amount and types of waste the organisation produces.

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We had a brilliant day yesterday with our associate artists, project managers, core team members, and Douglas Lonie and Nathan McWilliams from tialt, talking about how we measure and talk about Blue Cabin's impact. Here are our smiling faces at the end of the day!

A group of 18 people smiling, with a green wall in the background.

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Some more of the results from the workshop Jenny and Nic led this week at Teesside Uni's Raising Aspirations for Young People in Care Conference. Thank you to everyone who came along and took part so brilliantly!

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to our various talks and workshops over the last couple of days💙Here's some of the feedback after our session at @derbytheatre.bsky.social's Culture Cares conference. Thanks to Tom and the whole team for organising a brilliant event!

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

We're at Derby Theatre's Culture Cares conference and it's great to hear from Richard Crellin from @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social about their work (which Blue Cabin has been very happy to be part of!).

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

And This is the Place, which uses early years music-making to help build relationships and attachment.

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Jane, Lucy and Lisette are joined by Gail from Nepacs to talk about two of our projects: Creative Aid, which is a co-creation project with care-experienced young men in Deerbolt Prison.

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Our team is on the road again today, at @derbytheatre.bsky.social's Culture Cares conference which is all about how arts and culture are making a positive impact and creating pathways in the lives of care-experienced young people

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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Thank you for joining in with our hands-on creative session so brilliantly!

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