From Inspiration to Impact: How RISE Up is Transforming Children’s Life Chances Through Relationships, Movement and Self-Care Toolkits — Neil Moggan
At last year’s Whole Education Conference, a conversation started about how schools could create sustainable approaches to help young people flourish. One year later, Future Action and Unity Education Trust have transformed that conversation into action, adapting the award-winning RISE Up programme to meet the unique needs of different school communities. Through case studies from Danby Wood and Greyfriars Primary, colleagues will explore how relationships, movement for mental wellbeing, play wrapped in care and self-care toolkits can create meaningful change. Colleagues will leave with practical strategies and a roadmap to develop their own bespoke approach, helping every child feel safe, connected and ready to thrive.
About the speaker
Neil Moggan’s mission was shaped by the community he served in his own school, where there was a 13-year difference in life expectancy depending on which side of the main road outside the school children were born. That experience continues to fuel his commitment to empowering schools to become protective factors in young people’s lives.
A former Director of Sport, Health & RSHE with 20 years’ teaching experience, Neil is now the Founding Director of Future Action and a PhD researcher at Bath Spa University. Since lockdown, he has partnered with more than 300 schools globally, empowering leaders to co-create bespoke wellbeing programmes that build emotional regulation, belonging and resilience through relationships, movement, and self-care wellbeing toolkits.
Neil specialises in Trauma-Informed PE, early intervention wellbeing strategies, and whole-school approaches to embedding movement wrapped in care throughout the school day. He is the creator of the RISE Up programme, winner of the UK’s Leading Student Wellbeing Teacher Training Course 2025 & 2026, and author of Time to RISE Up - Supporting Students’ Mental Health in Schools.
