25th September 2023
Teni - our young adult carer intern in the Communications Team - shares her thoughts on how young carers can juggle schoolwork alongside their caring role.
11th September 2023
For more than 25 years, Carers Trust’s partnership with the National Garden Scheme has made a huge difference to the lives of unpaid carers around the country with support, advice, respite and grants.
17th August 2023
Carers Trust organised an employability event for young carers and young adult carers called 'Young Carers Movin’ On Day' on 15th August as part of the Young Carers Futures Programme.
24th July 2023
Teni – a young adult carer who is currently an intern in the Communications Team at Carers Trust – shares her personal and thoughtful tips on how other unpaid family carers can make time for their mental health needs alongside their caring role.
11th July 2023
Our young adult carer interns, Elena and Teni, share their experiences of the launch event of the Youth Employment Toolkit at the House of Lords last week, hosted by the Youth Futures Foundation who fund our internship programme here at Carers Trust.
10th July 2023
Kim, the young adult carer development worker at Falkirk and Clackmannanshire Carers Centre, reflects on a year of working with young carers.
9th June 2023
Making Carers Count (MCC) is a multi-partner programme aiming to identify and support carers who are under-represented amongst the community groups we currently reach and who have been disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
5th June 2023
There’s been no shortage of hand-wringing about the UK’s workforce shortage. Jeremy Hunt has posed as yet another “back-to-work” Chancellor who has talked at length about tackling the twin challenges of the burgeoning out-of-work benefit bill and business’s struggle to recruit for post-pandemic vacancies.
2nd June 2023
The Scottish Government recognise that there are at least 30,000 young carers in Scotland. The number of young carers recorded in schools across Scotland is just over 5,000 and research carried out by Carers Trust and local young carers services show that 1 in 5 children in a class has caring responsibilities.
8th September 2022
My name is Louisa and I am coming to the end of my internship at Carers Trust. I have been part of the Young and Young Adult Carers Team working on my own project within a bigger project called Making Carers Count.
22nd July 2022
Andrew Crompton will be cycling across three continents, fourteen countries and ten time zones on a gruelling eight-month ride from Manchester to Melbourne, with the aim of raising £500,000 for Carers Trust and Bolton Lads and Girls Club.
24th June 2022
Jigsaws help a Newcastle unpaid carer put life back together
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