YourNorth

YourNorth Multi-award winning training & coaching company, focusing on mental health, mindset & wellbeing.

What a fabulous time away on our first ‘Women in the Armed Forces Community’ wellbeing retreat, with an amazing group of...
26/03/2026

What a fabulous time away on our first ‘Women in the Armed Forces Community’ wellbeing retreat, with an amazing group of serving personnel, veterans, reservists & family members.

We did so much over the 3 days, and still had loads of down time. The weather was bonkers…plenty of hail storms, and also some sunshine! 😄

🔥 Chats in front of the fire
🗣️ Spoken Word Workshop
🌳 Walks through the forest
🪓 Axe throwing
🔥 Fire starting
👣 Glass walk
🏹 Arrow breaking
😄 Laughter and more laughter

We are so grateful to Gwent Regional Partnership & GAVO - Blaenau Gwent for providing YourNorth Veteran Support CIC with a grant so we could deliver this fantastic experience for our community.

Special shout outs to:

🖤 Debs Mills-Burns, in collab with Armed Forces Community HQ CIC & Forces Wellbeing Collective for delivering an awesome Spoken Word Workshop. Separate post incoming about this! 🙌

🖤 Lisa & Tracey from Womanifest for delivering some fab sessions for us, including an arrow break & a glass walk.

🖤 Neil from Forge Ways for the brill bushcraft session (we made our own fire starter!), the axe throwing and then some fire starting! 🔥

🖤 Polly & Phill from The Lodge, Staylittle for being superb hosts, and for creating an environment where we really feel like it’s ’home from home’.

🖤 Stu Gee from Stootz Workwear for our awesome merch.

Proud to be a part of this very special community and I’m really looking forward to delivering our next one in 3 weeks with another amazing group!

Kel 🫶🏼



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📣 LAST MINUTE AVAILABILITY! A space has become available on our Women in the Armed Forces Community retreat, being held ...
23/03/2026

📣 LAST MINUTE AVAILABILITY!

A space has become available on our Women in the Armed Forces Community retreat, being held Tues-Thur THIS WEEK!

If you are available and would like to join us, please send me a DM asap!

23/03/2026

Well hello there!

We’ve been very quiet on this page for the past few months (apart from sharing other peoples posts) as we’ve both been maxed out busy with our day jobs/businesses, and also working on loads for FVA in the background.

We’ve attended lots of things and there has been plenty going on that we haven’t had chance to shout about as yet!

You’ll be pleased to know that life is calming down now (famous last words!) and we will endeavour to catch up and share any events and opportunities that are available.

We have some epic stuff planned for the rest of 2026, including:

⭐️ 5 x wellbeing retreats
⭐️ Day trips
⭐️ Summer event
⭐️ London event
⭐️ And a few other surprises that we will be announcing soon!

We’ve also had some awesome news over the past week that we can’t share just yet, so it’s all go here behind the scenes at FVA HQ!

Thank you for your patience and for your fabulous support - we love having you here.

Grateful, as always

Kel & Lisa 🫶🏼

📣 EXCITING NEWS! We have run loads of retreats (20+) over the past few years for a variety of groups, and tomorrow I’m h...
23/03/2026

📣 EXCITING NEWS!

We have run loads of retreats (20+) over the past few years for a variety of groups, and tomorrow I’m heading to the Lodge to host our very first ‘Women in the Armed Forces Community’ retreat.

We have a fab mix of serving women, veterans, and family members and I already know this one is going to be fabulous (as they all are!)

We wanted this one to be extra special, so I’ve been chatting with some brilliant organisations doing amazing things…

🩷 The awesome team at Womanifest will be joining us for an afternoon of empowerment & fun…including arrow breaking & a glass walk! Lisa - thank you 🫶🏼

And there’s more…

💙 Armed Forces Community HQ CIC & Forces Wellbeing Collective are collaborating with us to deliver a Spoken Word Workshop, by Veteran, author and Spoken Word Artist, Debs Mills-Burns 🤩 Debs - thank you for offering to do this for us 🫶🏼

Knowing how amazing both Lisa & Debs are at what they do, I cannot wait for these sessions!

We are beyond grateful to both of them for partnering with us to create this magical event, and extra thanks for travelling to mid Wales ♥️

Lots of excitement in our retreat group chat, will share lots of pics soon!

Don’t mind us over here doing a happy dance…because WE WON! 💃🏻🕺🏻🎉⭐️ WELLBEING TEAM OF THE YEAR: SME ⭐️So grateful to the...
20/03/2026

Don’t mind us over here doing a happy dance…because WE WON! 💃🏻🕺🏻🎉

⭐️ WELLBEING TEAM OF THE YEAR: SME ⭐️

So grateful to the team at Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards, and to the judges & sponsors for this incredible recognition.

Huge congratulations to all the other winners & finalists and we wish we could have been there to celebrate with you all last night 🥂

Full hearts ♥️

🏆 AWARDS NIGHT! 🥂Tonight is the prestigious Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards and we are finalists in two categor...
19/03/2026

🏆 AWARDS NIGHT! 🥂

Tonight is the prestigious Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards and we are finalists in two categories:

⭐ Wellbeing Team of the Year (SME)
⭐ Best Mental Wellbeing Initiative

Unfortunately we are unable to attend the ceremony as it’s our daughter’s birthday and we are away.

Whatever the outcome tonight, we are so proud to be recognised alongside brilliant individuals, teams and organisations doing meaningful work in this space.

We hope everyone has an amazing night and look forward to seeing all the posts over our socials!

Kel & Jamie ♥️

📸 throwback to last years event when we won the ‘Excellence in Resilience’ Award! 🤩

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED! 4 years ago, we won our first Award - ‘Consumer Services Business of the Year’ at the UK StartUp Aw...
16/03/2026

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED!

4 years ago, we won our first Award - ‘Consumer Services Business of the Year’ at the UK StartUp Awards 🏆🥂

It’s been such a fabulous community to be a part of, and I’m so proud & honoured to return as a judge for the 3rd year 🥳

If you are running a business within its first 3 years and you’ve been considering entering the Awards…NOW IS YOUR TIME!

Deadline for applications has been extended until midnight on WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH!

Enter here: 👉 https://startupawards.uk/2026-entries

For more info or if you have any questions, check out the website or send me a DM!

👉 https://startupawards.uk

Have you already entered or plan to? Let me know!!

📣 ONE WEEK TO GO! 🏆YourNorth are finalists in two categories at the Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards 2026! ⭐ Wel...
13/03/2026

📣 ONE WEEK TO GO! 🏆

YourNorth are finalists in two categories at the Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards 2026!

⭐ Wellbeing Team of the Year (SME)
⭐ Best Mental Wellbeing Initiative

We’re so proud to be recognised alongside brilliant individuals, teams and organisations doing meaningful work in this space.

Huge thank you to our clients, supporters & funders who back us, work with us, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us so we can deliver wellbeing with purpose.

Full hearts ♥️

Oh, hey! I took a lil break from socials and I ended up staying away for what felt like months…and I kinda liked it 🤭BUT...
11/03/2026

Oh, hey!

I took a lil break from socials and I ended up staying away for what felt like months…and I kinda liked it 🤭

BUT - lots of cool stuff has been happening and I haven’t shouted about any of it yet, and also lots of people have shown kindness and gone above and beyond for me and our community 🫶🏼

So I’m dipping my little Welsh toe in tonight and I’ll be back tomorrow to share what’s been going on and what we’ve got coming up!

📸 pic of me last Saturday at The Not Forgotten fundraising dinner ✨

Exciting day ahead for the Littlest North & I! We are attending the and the energy in the room is incredible! Already ...
20/02/2026

Exciting day ahead for the Littlest North & I!

We are attending the and the energy in the room is incredible!

Already seen loads of our business buddies and looking forward to making lots of new ones 🤩

BRB, off to have THE best day…

💕 Random Acts of Kindness Day 💕A random act of kindness is a spontaneous, selfless act intended to brighten someone else...
17/02/2026

💕 Random Acts of Kindness Day 💕

A random act of kindness is a spontaneous, selfless act intended to brighten someone else’s day, with no agenda or expectation.

It’s a day to throw some goodness out into the world…and we all need a bit of this right now!

The phrase is widely attributed to Anne Herbert, who wrote in 1982 in Sausalito, “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.”

Kindness has been shown to increase:
❤️ Oxytocin (the connection hormone)
⚡ Energy
😃 Happiness
🎉 Pleasure (via dopamine)
😁 Serotonin

Kindness can also reduce:
😣 Perceived pain
🤯 Stress
😟 Anxiety
😞 Symptoms of depression
🩸 Blood pressure

There’s even research linking regular acts of kindness and volunteering with longer, healthier lives.

Kindness doesn’t just change someone else’s day…it changes yours too!

We’d love to know…
What random act of kindness have you done today?
Or has someone shown you unexpected kindness? 💕

📸 Katie Abey 💛

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We often get asked ‘Why did you start this company?’ It’s a question we spent a long time pondering before we made the leap from full-time secure employment to branching out on our own. The answer is people - or more specifically, we wanted to help people.

Until recently, both Jamie & I were serving in the Royal Air Force (we have 41 combined years of service between us!). Over the last 5 years, we have been on a pretty epic self-development journey and we realised that our passion was to help people unlock their potential. Sounds corny, I know...and it’s true!

So, following many late-night chats drilling down into the ‘Why?’, YourNorth was born.

Our company offers a variety of training, including accredited First Aid for Mental Health training, mindset & wellbeing workshops and tailored coaching packages. There are so many training companies out there, offering very similar content to us, so what makes us different? What makes us the special fish in a sea of other training and coaching companies? We believe that we are filling a niche for bespoke training; we offer a suite of masterclasses that can be selected to form a workshop, whilst also offering accredited mental health training.