Relationships that
change lives.

We started by changing individual lives.
Then widened the influence.

The Baxter Project showed what becomes possible when children experiencing adversity are met with patience, trust and evidence-informed practice. As the work grew, schools asked how those approaches could be shared more widely, practitioners wanted practical skills rather than theory alone, and partners wanted stronger evidence.

Each question became another part of TAG. Today, our work extends from frontline intervention into workforce development, behavioural innovation and organisational improvement.

David O’Driscoll, Founder
David is a criminologist by background. Before founding TAG, he spent years working across the probation service and the youth offending service, watching the same pattern repeat: young people cycling in and out of the justice system, met only after things had already gone badly wrong. That experience — and fifteen years working and volunteering with vulnerable children and adults — pushed him to retrain as a trauma recovery specialist and build something further upstream: early intervention, before crisis takes hold.

The Baxter Project grew directly out of that mission, combining David’s years in the sector with his own dog, Baxter, and what animal-assisted work could reach that talking therapy alone often couldn’t. He still leads TAG’s programmes today, working across education, care, justice and community services.

The balanced stones in the TAG mark reflect the same philosophy: stability built one careful placement at a time, the way trust is built between a practitioner and a child. The stack also holds even when it looks precarious — a reminder that resilience isn’t the absence of instability, but the ability to hold steady within it.