Mentoring

Turn That Frown Upside Down Mentoring was founded as a

response to the real life lived experiences of our founding

director Abbie Fudge, a UK based Youth work trauma protective behaviours practitioner

with over a decades worth of experience working with and

mentoring Children and Young people and hard to reach

members of the community. With an extensive background in

: Trauma, Protective behaviours, Special educational needs,

safeguarding, at risk,in need, Looked after children, Child

Sexual Exploitation, criminal exploitation, substance misuse,

alternative provision and young people who present

significantly complex and challenging behaviour.

She identified that you only have to

take one single step to be further in your journey then you

were yesterday underpinning Changing The Future’s ethos

“one step, one journey, one day at a time”.

During the most difficult time in her life at school and until

recently as she continued to follow her journey, Abbie was

supported by one of life’s teachers, mentor Natalie Green/

Woodward who sadly is no longer with us today. Natalie was

an inspirational woman with a zest for life and known for her

infectious bubbly, smiley personality brightening every room

she walked into and putting a smile on every person’s face

she came into contact with, even those individuals who felt

they couldn’t.

The name of the programme was inspired by the famous

phrase “Turn that frown upside down” Natalie used to say

to Abbie during difficult times. Through this Abbie identified

that you are one caring professional away, from becoming a

success story & with the right support you can achieve

everything you dream of.

 Changing The Future CICs intervention strategy enables us

to offer an unmatched 1:1 support to our program

participants & further support intervention.

Turn That Frown Upside down mentoring service offers support to children and young people in primary, secondary schools, alternative educational settings and any other setting's working with children and young people who have experienced adverse childhood experiences within their life or experienced or engaged in bullying behaviours . 

Turn That Frown Upside Down mentoring service supports children and young people in understanding who they are behind the mask. The mask can be like peeling a banana, some may be too hard to open, so you need some support to help open, others may appear fine but when opened they may be damaged. It's how we digest as professionals to provide support that is important.

To Book please email abbie@changingthefuture.co.uk

Sessions can take place virtually or face 2 face

Prices vary dependant upon session length & duration, please contact for a personalised quote for this service.