Young Carers Action Day 2025 is coming soon and this year’s theme is "Give Me A Break", focusing on the importance of rest and respite for young carers. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, 12th March 2025!

Our Young Carers Action Day 2025 resources are available below. These resources are designed to help everyone get involved in Young Carers Action Day 2025 — young and young adult carers, their friends, professionals who may interact with young carers, and local carer organisations.

Check out the downloadable materials and get ready to support Young Carers Action Day 2025!

Resources in English

Resources for young carers and young people

Posters - to raise awareness about who young carers are and why they need more support

• Awareness-raising poster for young people
• Awareness-raising poster for young people (alternate version)

Storytelling guide – to help you tell really engaging stories that connect your audience to young carers.

• How to tell great stories on Young Carers Action Day 

Resources for local carer centres

Poster – to raise awareness about who young carers are and why they need more support

• Awareness-raising poster for professionals

Storytelling guide – to help you tell really engaging stories that connect your audience to young carers.

• Great storytelling that connects your audience to young carers

Young Carers in Education Guide – to send to your contacts in schools, colleges or universities to help them better identify and support young and young adult carers. 

• Young Carers in Education Guide for England
• Young Carers in Education Guide for Scotland
• Young Carers in Education Guide for Wales

Scotland resources

• Scotland Young Carers Action Day Engagement Toolkit

Resources in Welsh

• Awareness-raising poster for young people
• Awareness-raising poster for young people (alternate version)
• Awareness-raising poster for professionals
• How to tell great stories on Young Carers Action Day 
• Great storytelling that connects your audience to young carers
• Young Carers in Education Guide for Wales

Give Me A Break

Following consultation with hundreds of young carers and with input from our Young Carers Advisory Panel, we have chosen ‘Give Me A Break’ as the theme for Young Carers Action 2025. The ‘Give Me A Break’ theme for this year’s YCAD allows us to explore two crucial areas of support young carers need.

First, young carers have so much responsibility on their shoulders that they often have little time for themselves and are at serious risk of burnout. They need a break. We know that young carers are significantly more likely to report severe psychological distress then their peers without a caring role. They need time out from their caring responsibilities to rest, recharge and focus on themselves – be it for a hobby, or just spending time with friends, like other people their age.

The ‘Give Me A Break’ theme also speaks to young carers’ need for education professionals and employers to give them a break in life. This could be offering more support at school to young carers, recognising that their responsibilities at home can mean they often feel overwhelmed at having to juggle their caring responsibilities with their schoolwork. By trying to understand these pressures more fully, and helping young carers manage them, education professionals can give young carers the break they need to succeed at school and in further and higher education.

All young carers need is for schools, colleges, universities and employers to give them a break.