Growing Me CIC

Growing Me CIC An app and physical toolkit helping children who've suffered early life trauma feel safe and secure

28/01/2026

🎉 New year, new us — we’re back! 🎉

📢 We’re looking for Volunteer Advisors! 📢

After far too long away, we’re excited to be back — and with a growing number of people registering an interest in volunteering, we need you to help us support them.

As a Volunteer Advisor, you’ll:
☎️ Make friendly telephone calls
🤝 Support people on their volunteering journey
✨ Help match volunteers with opportunities that suit their skills.
🏠 Support the team at local events
➕ Plus many more ways to get involved– Contact us for the full role description!

With Volunteer Advisors in place, we'll be able to bring back face-to-face appointments! 🙌

💬 Interested?

☎ Call: 01332 227712
📩 Email: stef.jowle@communityactionderby.org.uk
🔗 Apply online: https://volunteer.communityactionderby.org.uk/.../10201377

We look forward to hearing from you!

Incredibly productive session yesterday afternoon/evening with a group of care-experienced families...This group are hel...
27/01/2026

Incredibly productive session yesterday afternoon/evening with a group of care-experienced families...

This group are helping us design a piece of research into the feasibility of Growing Me. We had 11 participants, including children and adults. Their thoughtful, honest contributions, will feed in to a full research bid that we've been invited to submit... watch this space!

Last week, we had the pleasure of meeting Clare from Diversity Days, Everyday (https://www.diversity-days.co.uk). Equal...
20/01/2026

Last week, we had the pleasure of meeting Clare from Diversity Days, Everyday (https://www.diversity-days.co.uk). Equality and diversity is really important to us at Growing Me and we want to ensure that we are inclusive to all those who we work with, whether volunteers, customers, or collaborators. The world is a richer place when we embrace the breadth of different experiences of culture, race, gender, ability, sexuality and age.

Clare's approach is personable and compassionate and we can't wait to continue working together as we grow Growing Me 🙂

Today's Making Day has been a fantastic end to a busy but brilliant week for Growing Me! Next Making Day is 13th Feb (no...
16/01/2026

Today's Making Day has been a fantastic end to a busy but brilliant week for Growing Me!

Next Making Day is 13th Feb (note change of date due to half term)

Growing Me is a physical toolkit and digital guide that nurtures an existing relationship between a child and their trus...
07/01/2026

Growing Me is a physical toolkit and digital guide that nurtures an existing relationship between a child and their trusted adult, with a 10 session journey packed with fun animations, therapeutic games and creative activities.

Our mission is to bring a body of work recommended for many care-experienced children (Therapeutic Life Story Work) into the hands of those who know and care for a child best.

We believe...

🤾‍♀️ ...Learning is best when a child is feeling safe and having fun.

🫶 ...Relational trauma is resoloved through relationships

💪 ...Many adults (not just therapists!) are capable of providing much of the therapeutic input these children need if they are given the time and resources to do so.

Thank you to all of you for a fantastic 2025... Looking forward to growing Growing Me in 2026!We wish the fantastic care...
31/12/2025

Thank you to all of you for a fantastic 2025... Looking forward to growing Growing Me in 2026!

We wish the fantastic care experienced community, and all of you wonderful people who support them the very best for 2026.

Feedback Friday..."Over the weeks, we have watched our children grow in confidence and they have loved all of the sessio...
26/12/2025

Feedback Friday...

"Over the weeks, we have watched our children grow in confidence and they have loved all of the sessions"

You can read the full testimonial here: https://growingme.org.uk/elementor-1891/

24/12/2025

A merry festive break from all of us at Growing Me!

Maybe it's the central heating and the lack of sunlight that make my house plants unhappy - whatever's going on, they ce...
21/12/2025

Maybe it's the central heating and the lack of sunlight that make my house plants unhappy - whatever's going on, they certainly need a little extra care!

Winter, with its short days, sees us snuggled up inside.

We can listen to the rain and wind, feeling snug and cosy.

Maybe we have to walk a dog in the dark, watching for the lights of a collar flashing across the park.

Winter offers an opportunity to turn inwards. Whilst the seasons here in the northern hemisphere can be hard, they also offer an opportunity for nurture that can be rich in lessons and resources.

In their fertile void of cold and dark, plants are using this essential opportunity to get ready for a spring and summer of action and production. Spring and summer are growthful and exciting, but constant demands of growth and production would burn us out if we were stuck in them all year round.

I want to learn from the plants and our cold winter, to take the invitation to turn inwards. To nurture the parts of myself that I may have neglected and make space for a spring and summer of creation and production after a well earned rest.

My houseplants may need an extra bit of TLC right now... Perhaps we can all benefit by finding out what we need too.

What a treat of a day! Growing Me is so lucky to have such fantastic volunteers... the room has been filled with laughte...
19/12/2025

What a treat of a day!

Growing Me is so lucky to have such fantastic volunteers... the room has been filled with laughter, productivity and festive cheer.

Next Making Day is Friday 16th January 2026 (how can it already be so close to 2026!! Crazy!)

😀 Feedback Friday! 📣 "The activities you have provided have been perfect and accessible for children of all ages"You can...
19/12/2025

😀 Feedback Friday! 📣

"The activities you have provided have been perfect and accessible for children of all ages"

You can read the full testimonial here: https://growingme.org.uk/elementor-1891/

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Growing Me CIC, Cromford Creative, Arkwright Mill
Matlock
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