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Durham Johnston School help to build the confidence of their teenage girls with a creative series around ‘body positivity’

By Alice | July 11, 2022 | Comments Off on Durham Johnston School help to build the confidence of their teenage girls with a creative series around ‘body positivity’

by Artistic Director, Pollyanna Turner Recently we delivered a series of three creative workshops with a group of year 10 girls from Durham Johnston School; exploring body positivity with the…

Mental Health Week, Loneliness and Domestic Abuse

By Lisa Davis | June 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Mental Health Week, Loneliness and Domestic Abuse

9th to 15th May 2022 was Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK and the theme was loneliness. If you have been championing this within your workplace, have you also…

Breaking the bias this International Women’s Day

By Lisa Davis | March 11, 2022 | Comments Off on Breaking the bias this International Women’s Day

Switching the Stereotypes Part 1: In the first of two Director’s Blogs for International Women’s Day 2022, our Managing Director Lisa Charlotte Davis considers parenting and organisational culture. How does…

Writer Bridget Hamilton discusses her work on book Sometimes It Hurts

By Alice | February 4, 2022 | Comments Off on Writer Bridget Hamilton discusses her work on book Sometimes It Hurts

‘We wanted the stories to feel authentic to the people who were taking part’    Writer Bridget Hamilton discusses what it was like to work on Changing Relations’ Sometimes It…

Designing for Changing Relations by Elitsa Atanasova

By Alice | December 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Designing for Changing Relations by Elitsa Atanasova

Partnering with Lancaster University has provided our team at Changing Relations with skilled individuals to aid our work, whilst offering students the opportunity to experience work within the creative industry…

Creating our Learning Policy with Jo Chandler from our Steering Group

By Megan | December 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Creating our Learning Policy with Jo Chandler from our Steering Group

As an arts-based education organisation, it was important for us to lay out our Creative Learning Policy and be able to share it with those we work with. We invited…

Domestic abuse is everyone’s business – which is why workplaces should do more

By Megan | December 22, 2021 | Comments Off on Domestic abuse is everyone’s business – which is why workplaces should do more

Media coverage has pointed to increased numbers of domestic abuse incidents during the past 18 months of the pandemic. But has this translated into increased action in support of those…

Grace Stubbings: My time as Creative Assistant for Changing Relations

By Megan | December 20, 2021 | Comments Off on Grace Stubbings: My time as Creative Assistant for Changing Relations

Following a successful Kickstart placement, coordinated via government gateway provider, Durham Works, Grace Stubbings, also a musician in the up and coming all-girl rock band, Venus Grrrls, blogs about her…

Putting sustainability at the forefront of our organisation

By Alice | December 17, 2021 | Comments Off on Putting sustainability at the forefront of our organisation

This year we have been putting sustainability at the forefront of our conversations and recently developed our own Sustainability Policy, with thanks to our Sustainability Intern Anna Barrett from Durham…

We need to place more attention on gender equality in the workplace during times of crisis, not less

By Lisa Davis | May 5, 2021 | Comments Off on We need to place more attention on gender equality in the workplace during times of crisis, not less

Written by our Steering Group Co-chair, Dr Stephen Burrell Today we are launching a new report which discusses the findings from a survey we conducted with members of the North…