25/12/2025
A Year of Listening, Learning, and Laying Foundations 🌱
This year at Spark has been less about growth for growth’s sake, and more about getting it right.
We’ve spent the year listening carefully
👂 to lived experience
to learners who’ve been excluded before
👂to professionals who know the system is creaking
👂 and to the quiet gaps where people keep falling through.
What we’ve learned is simple, but not easy:
🧠 Neuroinclusion only works when it’s built with people, not for them.
💛 Trauma-informed practice isn’t a checkbox, it’s a commitment.
🤝 And real change happens slowly, relationally, and with care.
This year we’ve:
🔍deepened our research-informed approach
🏢🏫delivered trauma-aware, lived-experience-led work across education and organisations
🌍strengthened partnerships across academia, community, and practice
🧱 and built solid foundations for what Spark is becoming
Not louder. Just clearer.
As we look toward the year ahead, Spark is moving into its next phase with new programmes, stronger advocacy pathways, and work that bridges research and real life in practical ways. 🚀
No buzzwords. No shortcuts. Just work that holds people properly and challenges systems to do better.
Thank you to everyone who’s walked alongside us this year 🙏
Next year, we build 🔥
