Family Compass

19/08/2025

Group sessions starting 24th September in Ilfracombe.
Year 5 or 6 age groups (you do not have to be attending school)
Apply to inhale.exhale@familycompass.co.uk
Barnstaple sessions will be starting in January (TBC)

13/08/2025

We are pleased to be able to offer 4 places for our next 'Move, Play, Grow' group that starts at the end of September. Please get in touch at inhale.exhale@familycompass.co.uk to register your interest or if you have any questions.

'Alongside children and young people on their mental health journey'

12/08/2025

The Movement for Good Awards is an annual programme of giving, the Benefact Group donate available profits to charity and good causes. This year they'll be donating over £1 million to charities and good causes.

Please support us and nominate Family Compass for a £1000 award, this will help us provide therapeutic mentors for children and young people in North Devon.

Just use the link below and fill in a quick form to nominate us and share. Thank You ⭐️⭐️
https://movementforgood.com/

Nominate a charity for a Movement for Good award now.

10/07/2025

What more can we say.......
You are actually AWESOME!!! THANK YOU

06/07/2025

Well done to our amazing team of athletes who have completed the Croyde Ocean Tri and raised much need funds for Family Compass. You are all amazing.

06/07/2025

The team are ready!

03/07/2025

All the preparation and training is done. Have a great day on Sunday, we hope that the weather is kind to you. Family Compass will be there to cheer you on at Baggy Point. Thank you for raising funds for us 😍
Donate to Kris https://www.justgiving.com/page/kristian-evely-1?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL
Donate to Ben, Lucy and Anna https://www.justgiving.com/page/lucy-gibbs-1746131786939?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

26/06/2025

Enormous thanks to the amazing team that run the 'Braunton Boxing Day Tug of War' who have donated a huge amount of £1080. This funding will go towards training a therapist in delivering Therapeutic Life Story Work, an approach used to help children, particularly those with a history of trauma or complex experiences, understand and process their past, present and potential future. The trained therapist, will be able to provide support for around 30 to 40 young people and their families/carers each year in North Devon.

Your support is greatly appreciated by all of us at Family Compass.

26/06/2025

If you are a therapist or mental health practitioner in the charity sector please make contact to book your free place.

11/06/2025

Only three weeks of training left!!!

Well done to our courageous (or maybe, slightly bonkers) supporters, who are raising funds for Family Compass by competing in the Croyde Ocean Triathlon.

Find out more about them and how to donate to their 'Just Giving' pages;

KRISTIAN EVELY - Taking on the whole triathlon himself!!
https://www.justgiving.com/page/kristian-evely-1

BEN, ANNA AND LUCY GIBBS - The Team Event!
https://justgiving.com/team/3-monkeys-croyde

All of the money raised will help children and young people in North Devon.


THANK YOU 😀

10/06/2025

Braunton Fair 2025

Here's to our winner of the 'Decorate a Cookie' competition 👏👏👏👏🤗💛

's mental health

02/06/2025

A New Chapter

After eight extraordinary years building and leading Family Compass side by side, Lucy and I are stepping down from our roles as joint CEOs.

Lucy will continue her vital work as a Therapeutic Social Worker until December, providing therapeutic life story work that helps children make sense of their worlds. I’ll still be championing our mission as Fundraising Lead, supporting the voluntary income that helps make much of our work possible. After Christmas, I'm planning to return to the CEO role, ready to step back in with renewed energy.

In the meantime, the wonderful Emma Nobes will be stepping up as Interim CEO. She’ll be guided and supported by our incredible management team and dedicated Board of Trustees - we are in the very best of hands.

Since we co-founded Family Compass, Lucy and I have walked every step of the journey together. We’ve shared the joy of lives changed, and the weight of hard days that come with running a charity rooted in compassion and care. But now it’s time for something we’ve long encouraged in others: space to breathe. Space to tend to our own mental health and remember what it feels like to not be constantly consumed by the work we love.

We’re deeply proud of what we’ve helped to build, but even more proud of the people - children, families, funders, community partners, our team and supporters - who’ve shaped it with us. Thank you for believing in us, for standing with us, and for walking this path alongside us.

With love and gratitude,

Keda & Lucy