North East Wellbeing started in 2012 as the brainchild of our founding trustee Nick Blackburn (CEO, Lingfield Education Trust). He recognised that schools sometimes need extra help to meet the needs of every child and young person. From our original base in Darlington, we now work across the whole of the North East in schools and specialist provisions, as well as working on collaborative projects that facilitate system change.  

We work in the gap between how things are and how they should be. Children need a secure base to form attachments, good vocabulary to talk about how they feel, a colourful, creative space to express themselves and active lives with access to green spaces for both physical and mental health. For too many children, these needs are not met due to specific experiences, lack of confidence, and poverty in all its forms.

At North East Wellbeing we offer programmes that do their best to fill these gaps for vulnerable children. We offer colourful, creative programmes that keep children and young people at the very heart of our offer, to ensure every child can reach their full potential. Please see links to the services we offer above.

Our Vision, Mission and Values

We have a team of talented experts; they are all highly skilled teachers and/or therapeutic practitioners with many years’ experience of working with the most vulnerable. 

In addition to our work with children and young people, we also run an Impact Hub which provides impact data and demonstrates the value of our internal services. Increasingly we are working with external providers to support them to assess their own impact and demonstrate their value. We are connected to the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University and have two PhDs working within this unit.