Craft Matters: Using Craft to Transform Trauma Support

Changing Lives Respond to Spending Review 2025

Meet Our Volunteer Olivia - Volunteers' Week 2025

International Sex Workers Day 2025

Meet Alex

Meet our People and Culture Director Kurran

A Day in the Life of a Netreach Worker

Meet our Development Director Faye

The Reality of Child Exploitation and the Age of Transition - ASE Partnership

Our team is made up of leading experts in our specialist fields. Here they share their knowledge and insights about work that's taking place at Changing Lives and developments in policy and social change. 

Learn more about about the work taking place at Changing Lives and developments in policy and social change.

Blogs and Responses

At Changing Lives, we know that healing from trauma isn’t linear—and it doesn’t always happen in a therapy room. Sometimes, it begins with a needle and thread, a patch of felt, or a shared moment around a craft table.

This week's announcement of a £39 billion investment in affordable housing marks a welcome and long overdue shift in national policy.

We spoke to our Volunteer Olivia, who supports the Communications team, about why she gives her time to volunteer with us.

International Sex worker's Day is observed annually on June 2 of each year, honouring sex workers and recognising their often-exploited working conditions.

Our Recruitment Business Partner Alex Jenkins spoke to us about the roles she has held at Changing Lives and how she has grown professionally and personally to be promoted into her new role.

Meet our Recruitment Business Partner Alex

Our newly appointed Director of People and Culture, Kurran Hawksley, spoke to us about what his new role entails and what he's looking forward to achieving.

Laura - our Netreach Worker based in Wolverhampton - shared what a day in the life of her role looks like.

Our newly appointed Development Director Faye Sunter spoke to us about her new role, and what she's hoping to achieve

To mark child exploitation awareness day, Jess Creaby-Attwood our ASE Partnership Policy Officer sat down with Young People’s Service Manager at Basis Rebekah Vickers-Patel to discuss the realities of child exploitation and the age of transition.