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Career prospects flourish for young carer after career workshop with leading online florist

Young carer from Tower Hamlets in London to see her own designed bouquet in Bloom & Wild’s autumn collection.

My internship with the Communications Team

Thanks to support from players of the People’s Postcode Lottery, Carers Trust is able to run an Internship Programme for young adult carers. The programme aims to offer young adult carers with meaningful work and experience that gets them on the career ladder and helps them develop the skills they can take forward into their working lives. Osei was working with the Communications Team.

The Death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

The Death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Over the seventy years of her reign, The Queen has provided a constant example of selfless devotion to duty and public service. Without doubt, her unwavering style of calm leadership has been a reassuring presence in the lives of so many of us, particularly in times of national crises.

My internship with the Young and Young Adult Carers Team

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.  

Carers Trust strengthens its Board of Trustees

Carers Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of two new trustees to its Board.

Young carers have a break from their caring role at WWT London Wetland Centre

On 24 August a group of 10 young carers from Richmond Carers Centre were invited to WWT London Wetland Centre in Barnes.

A Level Results – nervous wait for a Coventry young carer who juggled revision with caring for her grandparents

A Level students have all had an unbelievably difficult few years as they struggled  through the pandemic with education disrupted, schools closed and exams cancelled.

People's Postcode Lottery insight day for Young Adult Carers

People’s Postcode Lottery (PPL) ran a careers insight day for eight Young Adult Carers in their Edinburgh offices on 14 July 2022.

Bolton businessman braces himself for ‘bonkers’ bike ride to Australia

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.