🚀 Save the Date
SPPA’s Annual Conference!
📅 11-12 September 2025
📍 The Mulberry Bush Third Space, Gloucestershire.
🎤 The Call for Abstracts is OPEN! 🎤
Submit your abstract by 11 April!
sppa-uk.org/conference/
🚀 Save the Date
SPPA’s Annual Conference!
📅 11-12 September 2025
📍 The Mulberry Bush Third Space, Gloucestershire.
🎤 The Call for Abstracts is OPEN! 🎤
Submit your abstract by 11 April!
sppa-uk.org/conference/
This isn’t just another conference—it’s a hands-on, experiential retreat, where we’ll engage hearts, heads, and hands. Expect workshops, discussions, presentations, and creative contributions from across sectors.
🎲 Today is National Play Day!
Breaking boundaries through play and incorporating the self in both play and professional work help us 'reflect on which parts of ourselves might share in our relationships with the people we work with and why we]might do this.’
Creative Mentoring @MightyCreatives award-winning service – a tried and tested model of creative intervention based on social pedagogical ethos and a person-centred approach.
Emily York is Youth Programme Manager and will lead the session. For Tickets: tickettailor.com/events/soci…
In the session, participants explore:
1. What is Creative Mentoring and how does it work?
2. What Social Pedagogical practices sit at the core of Creative Mentoring, and what do they look like in practice?
3. Why is creativity so important in Social Pedagogy?
4. How can resources and toolkits enhance creative engagement for children and young people in a person-centred way?
Hello! May! The #articleofthemonth is here, it was chosen by our beloved Trustee Hannah Severn and written by our cherished Patron Claire Cameron, our fabulous Chair of Trustees Robyn Kemp @redkemp65 and our wonderful friend and member Gabriel Eichsteller. A must-read.
I have chosen this article by Lowis Charfe, as I am very interested in relational leadership within Social Care. The article brings to life how to critically discover a relational approach to leadership. -Bianka Lang, SPPA Trustee
Do you want to explore transgression and learn with us?
Join the SPPA online forum on 18th April! We have an amazing lineup of speakers!
More info and tickets here: tickettailor.com/events/soci…
SPPA MEMBERS GET A SPECIAL DISCOUNT!