Our Projects

A three-year project focused on Life Story Work for young people aged 16-25 who are leaving care.

Creative opportunities and mentoring for Virtual School children

A co-creation project with care-experienced young men in Deerbolt Prison, supporting the young men to be recognised as artists.

A funded training programme in Creative Facilitation for care leavers.

Trauma-informed life story work ideas, tools and inspiration.

Care experienced young people from Sunderland are working with Blue Cabin to devise and create a short film together, based on their own ideas and experiences.

Art by care experienced young men in prison.

Blue Cabin and Redcar and Cleveland Virtual School are working together for two years, supporting care experienced children and young people with their transition to secondary school.

Using early years music-making to help build relationships and attachment.

Four days of creative activities, supporting Year 6 children with their transition to secondary school.

Blue Cabin is supporting two researchers at the Universities of Kent and Essex who are exploring mothers’ experience of adoption.

Sector support for Tees Valley’s flagship charity for dance.

Clowning workshops with care experienced children and young people at SEND schools in Gateshead.

A day of creativity open to all care-experienced young people aged 10 to 14 living in the city of Durham.

A five-week theatre experience with care experienced children and young people from KTS Academy in Redcar and Cleveland

Creative taster days and an immersive theatre experience for young people in Gateshead

Care-experienced children from Northumberland have worked with artists to create short films.

Supporting the transition to secondary school by building confidence, relationships and skills.

A day of environment-themed printing activities with children from Gateshead Virtual School.

Young people from Nottingham gained new skills and confidence through day-long creative activities.

New life story work resources are now available, created through a partnership between Blue Cabin, Children and Families Across Borders, and Therapeutic Life Story Work International.

A series of creative activity days for care-experienced children and young people cared for by Newcastle upon Tyne City Council.

A personalised song-writing programme which supports children’s musical development, confidence and wellbeing.

Blue Cabin is working with Gateshead Virtual School to deliver creative opportunities for care-experienced children and young people. 

Adopt Bats are a group of 12-to-18-year-olds from Tees Valley, who are working with professional artists to make a film about their experiences of being adopted.

The Artful Alliance is a national action research programme exploring cultural and creative education for care-experienced children and young people.

Exploring Artsmark for Virtual Schools

Children and young people from Redcar and Cleveland Children in Care Council have created a short film, sharing their experiences of being in care.

More Stuff Life This Please! was a two-year programme, funded by Culture Bridge North East and Stockton Borough Council, delivered in partnership by ARC Stockton (lead partner), Stockton Borough Council and Blue Cabin.

Two projects, commissioned by South Tyneside Council and funded by the DfE, sought to understand the impact of Covid-19 on Children in Care Councils, and supervised contact (family time).

Blue Cabin’s inaugural project working in partnership with organisations and freelancers across Darlington to provide creative opportunities for care-experienced children and young people.

A year long creative Arts Award project with care experienced children and young people, and the staff at Harewood Hill Lodge respite home in Darlington.

A project supporting care-experienced children and young people under Special Guardianship Orders to explore and discuss their feelings.

A partnership project responding to the Covid-19 emergency, developing and delivering 400 creative packs to care-experienced children and young people across the North East

Through Arts Award we support care-experienced children and young people to achieve a national qualification whilst developing their confidence and skills in creativity, communication and leadership.

A virtual photography project for connected carer families delivered during lockdown 2021.

A creative consultation with children and young people across South Tyneside and Gateshead to find out how they engage with music.