Roundabout Dramatherapy

30/09/2026

The City Lit Mental Wealth Festival is taking place from 7-10 October 2026. Featuring talks, panels, workshops and performances, all dedicated to restoring, supporting and celebrating and

City Lit dedicates a week each year to our Mental Wealth Festival. The Festival provides a forum for informative, challenging and inspiring discussions and workshops focusing on mental health and wellbeing.

28/09/2026

Two of Roundabout Dramatherapy's have returned to their work with older adults in and received a warm welcome from residents and staff.
They are also beginning the process of starting a new group at a sister home of this residence, in . Mission Care


image courtesy of Centre for Ageing Better

24/09/2026

The charity receives new enquiries every week asking for support. At the start of term, schools have been getting in touch, seeking urgent help for their students.
We have been working hard to respond quickly and will be setting up dramatherapy support in some new schools, to start work in before half term.

22/09/2026

Thanks to the teams at Media Trust and Edelman for this afternoon's helpful, trouble shooting session.

Are you struggling to keep up with social media? You’re not alone. 📱

If you’re spending hours creating content but not seeing the reach or engagement you want, our FREE Comms Clinic is for you.

Join us next Tuesday for practical advice on what’s working on social media right now - from algorithms and scheduling, to getting more mileage out of the content you already create.

Delivered in partnership with Edelman, the session will include expert tips, a curated Q&A and the chance to share ideas with other charities facing similar challenges.

Register here:
https://mediatrust.org/events/comms-clinic-social-media-sept26/

21/09/2026

"Health professionals can also help to provide positive healthcare experiences for children, which research has shown can help to reduce distress, improve cooperation and help to prevent lifelong healthcare avoidance and mental health problems associated with traumatic childhood healthcare experiences"

Analysis finds only 955 play professionals supporting 21 million child hospital admissions, leaving many traumatised for life

17/09/2026

🗣️ Sutton Mencap is working with local parents to set up a new, independent Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Parent Carer Forum

ℹ️ Over the next 10 months we will support parents to set up the new forum so that it can become a strong voice helping to shape service delivery in the borough.

We are now looking for people to join a steering group to help establish the forum and organise its activities.

ℹ️ If this sounds like an interesting role and you would like to know more, please visit;
https://www.suttonmencap.org.uk/steeringgroupmembership/info/.

ℹ️ To submit your application for membership of the steering group, please visit;
https://www.suttonmencap.org.uk/steeringgroupmembership/.

⏰ Please note that the deadline for applications is 8th October 2026.

17/09/2026

The room is prepared, the resources are in place, and a new term of exploration through dramatherapy is about to begin. Looking forward to supporting young people to express, connect, and flourish.

16/09/2026

Delighted to share this link to Peter Darby-Knight's new podcast, "Death & Dying: a never-ending story". It's a podcast where everyday people share a fictional story of their choice that connects them to death and dying. They then explore with Peter what the story has taught them about death. The podcast has arisen from Peter's work supporting people who are facing death and dying.
Listen to episodes here: https://open.spotify.com/show/033GKEOvXX2GTYQ0lHWClm?si=75b78c8023c346c0&nd=1&dlsi=550b54b8dd2b45e4

Podcast · Peter Darby-Knight · A podcast where everyday people share a fictional story of their choice that connects them to death and dying. We then explore what these stories have taught them about death. This podcast has arisen from my work as a drama psychotherapist when supporting people who ...

16/09/2026

"Everyone has the right to feel safe to be who they are and to be included."
A useful range of resources on BBC Bitesize including a section for KS1 on , with an animation, activities and quizzes.

What is bullying? Learn more about how it can affect someone in this KS1 BBC Bitesize Primary Citizenship guide.

15/09/2026

Our thanks to everyone involved in planning last week's fantastic European Arts Therapies Conference which was held in P**a, . We had an amazing time, meeting colleagues from around the world. One highlight was the keynote of Odyssey by Mythlab (Ben Haggarty and Steph Brittain), with great workshops, interesting papers and performances.