About 2020 Dreams
2020 Dreams® is a specialist UK education and training provider delivering PSHE Workshops, RSHE programmes, safeguarding education, personal development and staff training to schools, colleges, universities, alternative provision, charities, youth organisations and professional teams.
Our work focuses on the subjects that can be difficult to teach well but are too important to avoid. From knife crime, gangs, drugs and online harms to consent, healthy relationships, sexual harassment, misogyny, mental health, racism, extremism and personal safety, our workshops are designed to help participants understand real world risks, think critically and make safer, more informed decisions.
We deliver across the UK and can also support international schools and organisations through in person or virtual delivery. Every programme is adapted to the age group, setting, safeguarding context and priorities of the organisation commissioning us. Further information is available on our delivery page.
Young people need more than information. They need a safe space to question harmful messages, practise better decisions and recognise when they or someone else needs support. 2020 Dreams brings sensitive subjects to life through experienced facilitation, realistic scenarios and discussion connected to the pressures participants face now.
Specialist Education for Real World Issues
2020 Dreams is not a generic enrichment provider. Our core work is specialist education around safeguarding, relationships, behaviour, crime, wellbeing, digital risk and the pressures young people are navigating in everyday life.
Schools and organisations often contact us when they need an experienced external facilitator to address a sensitive or emerging issue with clarity, credibility and appropriate safeguarding boundaries. That may be a planned PSHE or RSHE programme, a staff INSET day, a response to a developing concern, or a specialist workshop that complements the organisation’s existing curriculum and pastoral support.
Our aim is not to frighten, lecture or sensationalise. We help participants understand the issue, recognise risk, examine attitudes and consequences, practise decision making and identify appropriate routes to support. This specialist, practical and safeguarding conscious approach is central to the 2020 Dreams brand.
Experience Across Education and Public Services
Our experience spans primary and secondary schools, sixth forms, colleges, universities, SEND and SEMH settings, PRUs, alternative provision, youth services, charities, local authorities and professional teams. We have also supported British schools overseas with engaging PSHE programmes, from Switzerland to Dubai.
Our experience includes work with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, ACS International Schools, Action for Children, Bromley Council, HMYOI Feltham, Harrow School, Croydon College, Barnsley College, South Devon College, Harris Academy Chobham, Deutsche Schule London, Warwick School and other education and community organisations.
Who We Work With
Our programmes are designed for a wide range of audiences and settings. Delivery is adapted rather than simply repeating the same material for every group.
Primary Schools
Age appropriate foundations around safety, respect, relationships, emotions, online behaviour, confidence, bullying and personal development.
Secondary Schools
Specialist PSHE and RSHE programmes covering safeguarding, crime, relationships, online harms, wellbeing, discrimination and emerging youth issues.
Sixth Forms & Colleges
More mature programmes around independence, relationships, personal safety, sexual health, nightlife, driving, digital behaviour, workplace expectations and decision making.
Universities
Freshers, consent, sexual harassment, spiking, relationships, personal safety, online harms and wider student wellbeing and safeguarding education.
SEND, SEMH, PRUs & Alternative Provision
Adapted delivery using clearer language, structured scenarios, visual prompts, repetition, smaller groups and additional processing time where appropriate.
Charities, Youth Services & Professional Teams
Bespoke workshops and training for organisations supporting children, young people, families, vulnerable groups and frontline professionals.
What We Deliver
Our programme is organised across six principal workshop areas. Select a linked category to explore the complete collection, or open one of the priority programmes listed below. Every subject can be delivered alone or combined into a connected PSHE, RSHE, safeguarding or personal development programme.
Life, Crime & Social Survival
These programmes help young people recognise danger, criminal exploitation, grooming, peer pressure and escalating risk while developing safer decision making and practical personal safety skills.
Popular workshops include:
Relationships & Sex Education (RSE)
Our RSHE programmes cover consent, relationships, sexual health, sexual harm, online behaviour and the attitudes that influence respect, equality and personal safety.
Popular workshops include:
Mental Health, Emotional & Physical Wellbeing
These programmes help participants understand emotions, manage pressure, build confidence and develop healthier strategies for coping, communication and personal development.
Popular workshops include:
Technology, Social Media & Online Harms
Our digital safeguarding programmes reflect the online risks pupils encounter now, including synthetic media, exploitation, harmful contact, digital pressure, misinformation and image based abuse.
Popular workshops include:
Inequality, Bullying & Discrimination
These workshops help participants challenge prejudice, misogyny, racism, harmful stereotypes and discriminatory behaviour while developing respect, accountability and safer peer cultures.
Popular workshops include:
Business, Career & Money Management
Our wider personal development offer helps young people prepare for greater independence through practical financial knowledge, enterprise skills, employability and responsible decision making.
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Explore the Full 2020 Dreams Programme
Download our current 51 page guide to compare workshop areas, priority topics, audiences and delivery options. The guide includes programmes for primary schools, secondary schools, sixth forms, colleges, universities, SEND, SEMH, PRUs, alternative provision, charities and professional teams.
Updated for the September 2026 statutory RSHE guidance, it also highlights current support around knife crime, county lines, drugs, misogyny, the Manosphere, AI, deepfakes, online harms, consent, healthy relationships, VAWG, mental health and staff training.
- ✓ Browse the complete workshop offer
- ✓ Compare programmes for different age groups and settings
- ✓ Review SEND, SEMH and specialist provision options
- ✓ Explore assemblies, development days and staff training
How Our Workshops Work
Our delivery has always been built around active participation. The original 2020 Dreams approach used role play and open discussion to move learning beyond a presentation and into situations young people could recognise. We have retained that principle while continuing to develop more structured, safeguarding conscious methods.
Participants examine realistic fictional situations, identify decision points and consider possible consequences without being required to disclose personal experiences.
Facilitators create space for questions and different viewpoints while maintaining clear boundaries around respect, accuracy and safeguarding.
Rather than telling participants what to repeat, we help them analyse pressure, influence, misinformation, relationships, risk and the choices available to them.
Depending on the topic, sessions may develop communication, bystander intervention, refusal skills, help seeking, emotional regulation, personal safety planning or digital judgement.
Content, examples, language and pace are adjusted for age, SEND, SEMH, group size, cultural context, recent incidents and the organisation’s objectives.
Sensitive Topics Without Sensationalism
Some of the subjects we cover involve crime, abuse, sexual harm, exploitation, self harm, violence or other potentially distressing issues. Professional delivery means knowing what not to show as well as what to teach.
We do not rely on graphic imagery, humiliation or shock tactics simply to create an emotional reaction. Facilitators use age appropriate language, distancing techniques and carefully selected scenarios so that participants can engage with serious material without unnecessary exposure to traumatic content.
Where a workshop may prompt a disclosure, safeguarding arrangements are agreed with the commissioning organisation before delivery. An external workshop provider supports the organisation’s safeguarding work; it does not replace the DSL, safeguarding policy or statutory responsibilities.
Safeguarding and Professional Standards
Safeguarding is central to the way 2020 Dreams works. Workshops are planned around the age group, setting and level of sensitivity involved, and facilitators are expected to work within clear professional boundaries.
- Enhanced DBS checked facilitators for relevant education delivery
- Risk assessed workshop activity
- Age and stage appropriate content
- Clear arrangements for disclosures and safeguarding concerns
- No requirement for pupils to share personal experiences publicly
- Distancing techniques for sensitive discussions
- Adaptation for SEND, SEMH and specialist provision
- Alignment with the commissioning organisation’s safeguarding procedures
- Current content reviewed against relevant education, safeguarding and statutory guidance
The school, college, university or organisation remains responsible for its statutory safeguarding duties, curriculum decisions, policies and response to individual concerns.
For further information about our professional standards, read the 2020 Dreams Safeguarding Policy, Child Protection Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy.
Staff Training, INSET and Professional Development
Many of the issues we address with young people also require confident adult responses. 2020 Dreams therefore provides specialist staff training and CPD for teachers, DSLs, pastoral teams, senior leaders, safeguarding professionals, youth workers, university and college teams, charities and other organisations.
Training can be commissioned as a standalone session or alongside pupil workshops so that staff and young people are working from a shared understanding of the issue.
Popular options include Gun and Knife Crime INSET Training, Gang Awareness INSET Training and Mental Health Awareness INSET Training. Bespoke CPD can also address online safety, misogyny, the Manosphere, consent, sexual harassment, VAWG, radicalisation, extremism and other emerging concerns.
Why Organisations Choose 2020 Dreams
Schools and organisations choose 2020 Dreams when a subject requires specialist knowledge, credible facilitation and the confidence that sensitive content will be handled professionally.
We work extensively with topics that require more depth than a generic enrichment session.
Programmes evolve as legislation, statutory guidance, technology, social media culture and youth risks change. Our current guide is updated for the September 2026 statutory RSHE guidance.
Our approach is built around discussion, engagement, clear boundaries and the ability to manage challenging questions professionally.
We can adapt emphasis around year groups, incidents, local concerns, safeguarding priorities and organisational objectives.
Our experience extends beyond mainstream schools to colleges, universities, PRUs, alternative provision, SEND, SEMH, youth services, charities and professional teams.
In person programmes can be delivered across the UK, with virtual delivery available where appropriate.
Read feedback from organisations that have commissioned 2020 Dreams workshops and training, including comments on engagement, relevance, facilitation and the impact of our delivery.
2020 Dreams and 2020 Effect
2020 Dreams and 2020 Effect now have clearly separate roles.
2020 Dreams is focused on education: PSHE and RSHE workshops, personal development, safeguarding education, pupil programmes, staff training and professional development.
2020 Effect has moved away from education workshops and events and is now focused on 3D printing, digital fabrication and creative production.
This separation allows each brand to specialise properly. Enquiries relating to schools, colleges, universities, safeguarding, PSHE, RSHE or staff training should be made directly through 2020 Dreams.
Our Commitment
Young people do not need simplistic slogans for complex problems. They need credible information, space to think, practical skills and adults who are prepared to discuss difficult subjects properly.
That is the purpose of 2020 Dreams: to make challenging education more engaging, more relevant and more useful, while supporting schools and organisations to address safeguarding and personal development issues with confidence.
Work With 2020 Dreams
If you are planning a PSHE day, RSHE programme, safeguarding workshop, student development event or staff training session, tell us what you need to address and we can recommend the most suitable format.
Please include your organisation, location, age group or audience, approximate participant numbers, preferred dates and the workshop or training area you are interested in.
Company Information
2020 Dreams® is operated by NJA Creative Ltd and delivers specialist education and training services across the UK.
Registered office: 3rd Floor, 207 Regent Street, London, W1B 3HH
Freephone: 0800 471 4983
Telephone: 0207 859 4791
Email: hello@2020dreams.org.uk