Changing Relations

Changing Relations We are an arts education and training company that provokes thinking around gender equality, gender

Funders make so much possible for not-for-profit organisations like Changing Relations. It is easy to assume that what t...
28/09/2026

Funders make so much possible for not-for-profit organisations like Changing Relations. It is easy to assume that what they bring to a grantee is “just” money and that it is purely a transactional relationship.

“Just” money is hugely important – it is what makes much of the work that we do possible (and if anyone would like to contribute “just” money towards our work we’d love to hear from you).

But sometimes funders bring something that isn’t “just” pounds and pence.

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation are currently funding our A is for Amy-Sometimes it Hurts project which addresses child/young person experiences of domestic abuse and teen relationship abuse. Within this project we have a small amount of time from the amazing Susanne Burns supporting our overall evaluation approach, particularly looking from a qualitative perspective. But we also have some really rich quantitative data and we know that we don’t currently have the skills we need to really make the most of that.

So, Kate asked the Paul Hamlyn Foundation if they could help us develop those skills and they said yes! They are hugely supportive of organisations developing skills to support the work they do and we are super grateful for this.

Thanks to a connection made by Susanne, Kate is now working with Tamsin Cox from DHA Communications developing her skills to really allow us to make the most of the quantitative data we are collecting. It’s a learning curve…but we're already seeing the fruit of it.

So, this is a thank you to The Paul Hamlyn Foundation for making this possible, Susanne Burns for the connection and Tamsin Cox for stretching Kate's brain (and making her grin as she sees more of what our data shows).

26/09/2026

There's a whole range of different ways we work with people. We love to meet people in person and get a sense of what our partner organisation or creative / academic collaborator wants and needs.

Fancy a chat?

Get in touch!

[email protected]

Can't believe a whole year has gone by since this amazing team came together to create our film A is for Amy!
23/09/2026

Can't believe a whole year has gone by since this amazing team came together to create our film A is for Amy!

Part 3 of our back-to-school intro to Changing Relations is about what we actually do!You know the themes we focus on an...
21/09/2026

Part 3 of our back-to-school intro to Changing Relations is about what we actually do!

You know the themes we focus on and the values we bring to our way of working.

But if you're wondering how you can actually work with us, this is the post for you!

We always have a funded project on the go - or in the pipeline - and we're always keen to work collaboratively with relevant partners. If you're interested in this, get in touch - [email protected]

But we're also super happy to share our expertise in a range of ways.

Over the course of our 13 years of operation, we have:

💡 Mentored creative practitioners and other voluntary sector organisations to support their planning of their own projects, in particular where these feature learning and engagement aimed at social impact.

💡 Been commissioned to draw from our portfolio of artworks to support other organisations to achieve their own learning and awareness objectives with their clients, participants or students.

💡 Developed training and resources that use our original impactful artworks to stimulate learning and reflection on our key themes.

💡 Delivered workshops using our artworks and creative methods to help schools, businesses and communities engage in whichever theme our host would like us to address.

We love how supported us to capture all of this on our new website, with pages outlining the different ways we can work with you and a lush set of case studies to show this in practice.

Take a look 👀

https://changingrelations.co.uk/how-we-help/workshops-schools/

Kate, our Artistic Director, was welcomed by the South West Durham Secondary Schools panel this week to share with them ...
18/09/2026

Kate, our Artistic Director, was welcomed by the South West Durham Secondary Schools panel this week to share with them the opportunity for their schools to take part in the next phase of our domestic abuse themed A is for Amy programme which helps young people have healthier relationships, and, if they do find themselves in an unhealthy relationship, better able to ask for help.

We are super excited to shortly begin training teachers, pastoral staff and youth workers to deliver the A is for Amy programme in their settings.

There is no cost to schools or youth groups to take part in the programme: we’ll be providing full training and a toolkit containing everything needed to undertake delivery, thanks to the support of our amazing funders.

If you would like to explore your school delivering the A is for Amy programme this year please get in touch with Kate ([email protected]).

The A is for Amy programme is generously supported by funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation , Arts Council England , North East Mayoral Strategic Authority , NHS, The National Lottery Community Fund , BAM Construction Ltd, Barbour and Gaunless Gateway.

18/09/2026

This is us trying to make sure that the exhibition we develop for the College of St Hild and St Bede incorporates as much as the staff and students we spoke to said they wanted to see in line with the messaging they agreed we need to convey 🤩

Part 2 of our new school year Intro to Changing Relations is focused on how we work.As an organisation focused on gender...
14/09/2026

Part 2 of our new school year Intro to Changing Relations is focused on how we work.

As an organisation focused on gender stereotypes, domestic abuse & sexual attitudes, we're really conscious that these are tricky topics. Some will want to avoid them. Some will very strongly not want to be told what to think about them.

This is the absolute crux of why we use the arts. It is a way in. A means of creating an explorative space in which we can ask questions and reflect. A way to prompt empathy through the presentation of a character's experience, an experience whose personal impact we may not have previously considered.

And this makes the way we go about artistic creation really important. Our process of co-production together with those who have lived experience of the issues we address gives the resulting artworks a realness and resonance that our programme participants respond to.

Evaluation is the next piece of the puzzle. It's not enough to listen once. You need to listen throughout to find out what works, what's impactful, what's accessible, what's missing. All of our work is produced with an iterative process of listening, testing, learning, refining and testing some more because we want our educational offers to be the best they can be.

That brings us to quality. We have always believed that producing high quality art is integral to engaging participants in the tricky topics we address. And so we commission professional artists to shape the creative outputs that form the basis of our learning programmes.

The final piece of the puzzle is care. We recognise that, in asking our artists & facilitators to engage in tricky topics, & navigate the challenging lived experiences with our artwork, or shared by our participants in response, we need to create a space to consider their wellbeing.

To sum up How We Work in single word bullet points:

🥰 Art
🥰 Co-production
🥰 Lived Experience
🥰 Evaluation
🥰 Quality
🥰 Education
🥰 Care

If you feel like a nosy, 's fabby web design showcases:

💞 Our approach

💞 Our team

💞 The fabulous artists we've worked with over the years

Take a look 👀

https://changingrelations.co.uk/about/meet-the-team/

Really delighted to be giving a new life to this artwork (that was originally produced by as part of our Let's Talk abo...
09/09/2026

Really delighted to be giving a new life to this artwork (that was originally produced by as part of our Let's Talk about S*x project) through a new commission for at .

After a buzzing staff and student engagement session in the Summer term, this week we begun working out the narrative arc of the exhibition we'll be installing as part of the HB 🩵 festival, based on the key messages and imagery the college want to showcase.

This image in Sofia's "brandalist" style fits with their idea of a positive, pro-social modelling of healthy and respectful relationships and will feature alongside works by and

Excited to see how it all comes together into a series of window panels to be installed later this term as part of a whole programme of art-tastic healthy relationship-themed activity.

Watch this space 👀

The start of the new school year feels like a good time to re-introduce ourselves, especially as we have a spiffy new we...
07/09/2026

The start of the new school year feels like a good time to re-introduce ourselves, especially as we have a spiffy new website designed by that sets out who we are and what we do super nicely.

So for the next couple of weeks, we're going to do an ~ Introducing Changing Relations ~ post each Monday, in case anyone has connected with us more recently and would find a little reminder useful 😊

To start us off, we're going to focus on the themes we work with. Over the years, the work we have produced has tended to fall into the following 3 themes:

🤩 Gender Stereotypes

🤩 Domestic Abuse and Healthy Relationships

🤩 S*xual Attitudes and Behaviours

In the How We Help section of our website, you will find a dedicated set of THEME pages, which outline the kinds of work we have developed in relation to each of these areas, with links to dedicated PROJECT pages taking you right back through our complete archive of activity and the resulting artworks and resources at each stage.

A 4th THEME emerged more recently as we reflected that the underlying thread of the way we do our work is a theme in itself of value to share with others:

🤩 Inclusive Practice

In the CASE STUDY section, the commissions and consultancy included has THEME filters so you can see the work we've done in relation to a given topic.

Take a look 👀

https://changingrelations.co.uk/how-we-help/domestic-abuse/

We promised a new board reveal a few weeks back, and, now that the lovely has finished the illustrations of our new Non...
26/08/2026

We promised a new board reveal a few weeks back, and, now that the lovely has finished the illustrations of our new Non-Exec Directors for the governance page of our website, we're really delighted to share that and have been joined by three fabulous women:

🤩 Dale Glenister - an arts professional with experience across museums & galleries, finance and youth engagement. Dale works with creative businesses accessing investment via & also supports young people in museum based projects. She is passionate about widening access to the arts.

🤩 .Sarma - a mixed-methods researcher & photographer based at . Her work focuses on gender-based violence and intersectional inequalities across public health, sociology & criminal justice. She believes in the potential of creative methods to drive real-world impact.

🤩 Kimberly Cullen - whose background is in knowledge mobilisation, communications, project / programme management, violence prevention research, statistics and information, and events and stakeholder engagement. Kim currently works at in the Violence and Society Centre as the Knowledge Exchange Manager.

We're really pleased to welcome them all on board and can't wait to start working together once we've all made it to the other side of the summer holidays!

You can see who is who on the governance page of our new website - https://changingrelations.co.uk/about/governance/

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