Big Love Youth Projects CIC
Increasing access to emotional wellbeing support for children and young people
About us
WHO WE ARE
Children’s emotional experiences are often misunderstood or minimised — particularly when stress or anxiety doesn’t have an obvious external cause.
Children’s nervous systems are still developing, yet they are frequently expected to self-regulate without consistent, attuned relational support. Emotional regulation is not an innate skill; it is learned through safe relationships, repeated co-regulation, and compassionate guidance over time.
Big Love Youth Projects CIC exists to address this gap — ensuring children and young people have access to emotionally supportive environments where regulation is taught within relationship, not expected in isolation.
The gap our work addresses…
Children are fully capable of experiencing intense emotional states — including anxiety, fear, overwhelm, grief, and stress — often without the language, relational safety, or support needed to make sense of them.
What is commonly underestimated is not children’s emotions, but:
how deeply they feel
how early stress can impact the nervous system
how much emotional safety depends on relationships, not tools alone
As a result, many children are expected to manage emotional experiences independently, before they have been shown how regulation is learned, modelled, or supported.
What’s often missing
Children do not learn emotional regulation on their own.
They learn through:
co-regulation
relational attunement
repeated experiences of being seen, soothed, and supported
Many parents, carers, and educators are deeply committed, yet:
were not taught these skills themselves
grew up in times of emotional silence or stigma
are navigating their own stress and nervous-system overload
This can leave children without consistent models of regulation, even in caring environments.
For children living with trauma — or being raised by overwhelmed or traumatised adults — this gap can be even wider.
What Big Love Youth Projects CIC does differently
Big Love Youth Projects CIC exists to remove barriers to emotionally informed, trauma-aware wellbeing support.
Our approach:
treats children as emotionally capable humans, not “too young to understand”
centres co-regulation and relational safety, not behaviour management
builds emotional language through the body, not just words
supports adults (parents, carers, teachers) to understand their role in regulation
acknowledges the impact of trauma — both direct and intergenerational
adapts for neurodivergent children and SEND needs
We do not ask children to regulate alone.
We support emotional learning within relationship — where real change happens.
How Big Love Youth Projects works
Big Love Youth Projects CIC does not exist to sell services.
The CIC:
secures funding and partnerships
supports free or subsidised access to emotional wellbeing programmes
enables delivery in schools, communities, and family settings
responds to local need through funded and pilot projects
Programme delivery is carried out in partnership with Big Love Movement Ltd, ensuring professional standards, safeguarding, and continuity of care.
The CIC enables access. Delivery partners ensure quality.
Big Love Youth Projects supports access to programmes for:
Early Years through Key Stage 2
Primary schools
Community and family settings
Parent–child workshops
Schools and organisations supporting children affected by stress, trauma, SEND, or neurodivergence
Projects evolve in response to funding, partnerships, and community need.
What changes when this support is in place
When children are met with understanding and relational safety:
they feel safer expressing how they feel
emotional experiences are validated rather than minimised
regulation is learned through connection, not control
parents gain insight into their child’s nervous system — and their own
behaviour is understood as communication, not defiance
emotional literacy grows alongside trust and confidence
The impact extends beyond sessions — into homes, classrooms, and relationships.
IMPACT
Why this matters now
While awareness of mental health has grown, understanding of how emotional regulation is learned has not kept pace.
Children are growing up within an increasingly intense emotional landscape:
heightened sensory input
constant comparison and digital exposure
rising SEND and neurodiversity recognition
widespread parental stress and burnout
While awareness of mental health has grown, understanding of how emotional regulation is learned has not kept pace.
Big Love Youth Projects CIC exists to bridge that gap — compassionately, accessibly, and safely.
Partnerships & Support
We welcome connection with:
schools and education settings
community organisations
funders and grant-makers
services aligned with trauma-aware, relational practice
If you’re interested in partnering, funding access, or exploring a community need, we’d love to hear from you.
➡️ Get in touch to start a conversation
Big Love Youth Projects CIC is a UK registered Community Interest Company. Programme delivery is provided by Big Love Movement Ltd.