🌞 Spring Into Action: Join the RISE Up Movement This Summer Term
- Neil @ Future Action
- 1 day ago
- 5 min read
In a nutshell: The RISE Up movement is gaining serious momentum. With over 250 schools now involved and new programmes launching across the UK, here’s everything you need to catch up, get inspired, and get involved this summer term.
What’s Inside This Blog:
✔️ Reflections from the April Asia Adventure Tour
✔️ The Global RISE Up Community is Growing
✔️ Theory of Change Model coming this term
✔️ Brand-new case studies from Merseyside to Malaysia
✔️ Upcoming events & where to find us
✔️ How to join the 250+ schools already involved
At Future Action, our mission stays the same — to empower brilliant educators to transform young people’s mental wellbeing and life chances.
But this spring has felt like a breakthrough moment.
Throughout last half term and the Easter holidays, we’ve been building momentum like never before — travelling across Asia, connecting with new partners, expanding our place-based RISE Up communities in England, and preparing to share powerful new impact stories from classrooms around the world.
Whether you’ve been with us from the beginning — or are discovering RISE Up for the first time — there’s never been a better time to get involved.
🌟 Half Term Highlights – What a Few Weeks It’s Been
Here are just a few of the highlights from the last half term and Easter break:
→ Over 250 schools are now part of the RISE Up movement – from Merseyside to Malaysia, Uganda to the USA
→ Our April Asia Adventure Tour – working with international schools in Kuala Lumpur and speaking at the PHASE Conference in Shanghai
→ New place-based RISE Up communities launching across Sussex, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, and more
→ New case studies developed and ready to share this term
→ Huge congratulations again to Kate Reynolds at Belvedere Academy in Liverpool — whose RISE Up programme won a national award last term 👏
✈️ April Asia Adventure Tour: Building Global Connections
This was actually our third trip to Asia already this academic year — a real privilege to continue growing long-term partnerships and sharing the RISE Up approach with educators across the region.
This time, the April Asia Adventure Tour took us to Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai, working with international schools and speaking at one of Asia’s leading PE and wellbeing conferences.
Highlights included:
→ Speaking at the PHASE Conference in Shanghai
→ Working alongside the brilliant Alice Smith School in Malaysia
→ A new parent workshop focused on helping children construct containers of safety at home
A huge thank you to all the brilliant educators we met and connected with along the way — your passion, curiosity, and commitment to supporting young people’s wellbeing was inspiring.
Wherever young people are in the world, the appetite for relational, movement-based approaches to wellbeing continues to grow.
🌍 Growing Our Global & Place-Based RISE Up Communities
We’re now working alongside over 250 schools worldwide — from Merseyside to Malaysia, Uganda to the USA — with educators using RISE Up to improve mental wellbeing in their local context.
Closer to home, our place-based RISE Up communities continue to strengthen — bringing together schools, Virtual Schools, local authorities, Active Partnerships, and other multi-agency colleagues to create lasting change.
New RISE Up programmes launching for educators and young people in:
Bedfordshire RISE Up
Cambridgeshire RISE Up
Devon RISE Up
Dudley RISE Up
Hampshire RISE Up
North East RISE Up
Oxfordshire RISE Up
Scotland RISE Up
Somerset RISE Up
Stoke RISE Up
Telford & Wrekin RISE Up
Adding to our existing communities in:
Liverpool RISE Up
Manchester RISE Up
Norfolk RISE Up
Suffolk RISE Up
Wirral RISE Up
Want to be part of it?
If you’re an educator or a multi-agency partner who wants to get involved in these RISE Up programmes — or if you’re interested in developing a new RISE Up community in your area — simply fill in our short waiting list form and we’ll be in touch with next steps.
👉 Join the RISE Up Waiting List here
📘 Theory of Change Model – Coming Soon
This half term, we’ll be sharing our new Theory of Change — providing a clear framework for how and why RISE Up works.
Built around:
→ Quality Relationships
→ Movement for Regulation, Belonging and Mental Wellbeing
→ Play Wrapped in Care
→ Early Intervention Wellbeing Toolkits
It’ll help support your internal planning, funding bids, and evaluation processes.
🎤 Upcoming Events – Where to Find Us
We’d love to meet you at one of these events next term:
→ 6–7th May — World Teacher Games, Toulon, France — Book here
→ 19th May — Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Primary PE Conference, St Neots — Book here
→ 13th June — NAHT Inspiring Leadership Conference 2025, Birmingham — Book here
→ 20th June — Hampshire PE Conference, Southampton — Book here
→ 30th June — Whole Education Conference, University of Warwick — Book here
→ 1st July — Bedfordshire & Luton CYP Conference: Creating Positive Experiences for CYP through Physical Education, Physical Activity & School Sport, Woburn Forest — Book here
→ 4th July — Attachment Research Community 2025 – London, South & East Regional Conference, Earls Court — Book here
→ 7th July — Future of PE Conference, Sunderland — Book here
🧠 New Case Studies – From Merseyside to Malaysia
We’ll soon be sharing fresh case studies next term from:
The Alice Smith School’s Beyond The Game Coaching Programme from Kuala Lumpur
Clare Mount’s Active Form Time Impact on the Wirral
Each story includes both qualitative and quantitative insights, with ideas you can adapt for your own setting.
📈 Resources to Get You Started
💬 How to Get Involved
1️⃣ Join the RISE Up waiting list → Sign up here
2️⃣ Ready to tell your RISE Up story? – We’ll help you write up your case study and share your impact with our global community
3️⃣ Bring RISE Up to your school, area or MAT – Book training, CPD or consultancy support for your team
Get in touch here today – we’d love to hear from you.
🙏 Thank You
To every educator walking alongside us — thank you.
Together, we’re building a global movement rooted in care, connection, and a belief that every child deserves to feel safe, supported, and ready to thrive.
Have a brilliant term
Neil Moggan & The Future Action Team
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