Storytelling in dramatherapy enables our clients of all ages to express, explore and communicate conscious and unconscious ideas within the safety of a story frame or structure. Within each story there are themes, such as friendships, team work, chaos, calm, the unlikely hero, differences, appreciating one another, keeping things hidden, difficult feelings, relationships, differences, coping […]

Dramatherapy sessions create a safe space to explore difficulties and trauma, and support children by helping them reduce anxiety and other mental health issues.  Statistics show that one in ten children, an average of three in every classroom, has a diagnosable mental health problem, with 75% of mental health problems in adults having their roots […]

We are delighted to be shortlisted for the National Autistic Society, Autism Professional Awards. We have been nominated for their Innovative Family Support Award, this award seeks to recognise and reward a team or organisation that has made a significant contribution to improving the way they support the families of autistic people. Click here. This […]

On 21st January 2020 Roundabout was delighted to be invited to the launch of Sir John Cass Foundation’s Impact Report, celebrating their last 10 years of funding. Roundabout has been grateful to receive the support of the foundation for a number of years. Sir John Cass Foundation have generously provided two grants to support our […]

Good news from Hilco Capital. Each year they make a charitable donation in lieu of printing & posting paper Christmas cards. This year they have chosen to support Roundabout. A big thank you from us all.

This year marks 25 years since the first draw of The National Lottery. In that time over £40 billion has been given out to good causes, and over half a million (565,000) projects have benefited from National Lottery awards that change lives every day. Since 2000 Roundabout is very grateful to have received a staggering £678,844.00 […]

In September Samuel Lewis attended the BADTH Conference, he kindly shared some of his experiences at the conference. I attended David Read Johnson and Nisha Sajnani’s workshop about toxic stress and trauma informed schools. They had set up a project in the US to help encourage all children to write a letter to someone called […]

In September 2019 a number of the team presented at the ECArTE Conference (The European Consortium for Arts Therapies) in Madrid. This was to premiere the preliminary findings of Roundabout’s two year feasibility study (2018-2020), funded by the British Association of Dramatherapists which focuses on anxiety reduction for junior aged children on the autism spectrum […]

‘This fascinating and much needed book brings to the reader the rigour and passion of innovators who are telling us new stories of how change can happen and be accounted for in relation to Dramatherapy and clients on the autistic spectrum… The book holds up processes such as play, story, role or improvisation and sees […]

We were awarded a two year research grant of £20k from The British Association of Dramatherapists to conduct the first ever feasibility study in the UK focusing on group dramatherapy and the reduction of anxiety with children who have a primary diagnosis of autism in mainstream school settings. We are proud to be undertaking this […]