We are incredibly grateful to the Julia Rausing Trust for their generous donation supporting Christmas and New Year celebrations for young carers and young adult carers.
December 20, 2024
We were thrilled to welcome over 100 attendees, including professionals, staff, and young carers, at our annual Gloucestershire Young Carers Twilight Conference.
December 19, 2024
Last week, Gloucestershire Young Carers had the incredible opportunity to meet Ed Davey, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, and Cameron Thomas, MP for Tewkesbury.
Each year, the Pupil Leadership Team at Cheltenham College nominate a charity to support, and this year, the charity chosen by pupils is Gloucestershire Young Carers.
Third year social work students heard directly from young carers about how they want to be seen, heard and supported.
November 6, 2024
On Tuesday 1st September 2024, the Mosquito Mission visited The University of Gloucestershire to deliver two sessions to Primary ECT students, informing them about young carers, their experiences in school, and how they as new professionals can help identify and support young carers in their schools.
October 7, 2024
Gloucestershire Young Carers, along with researchers, organisations, and policy makers from all over the world, came together for this year’s International Young Carers Conference held at Manchester Metropolitan University.
May 8, 2024
Last month we ran our Caring Counts course for our Young Adult Carers aged 16-18 at the Ed Shed in Gloucester enabling them to come together to learn, support and share.
April 3, 2024
School groups workshop a success! We were pleased with the response that we had from schools for our workshop on Young Carers Action Day 13th March. It was all about running young carer groups in schools and how this can be done and we had over twenty schools sign up for it!
From January 2023 young carers have been included in the annual school census which gives a great opportunity to build accurate data on the number of young carers in education across the UK.
January 10, 2024
Three young carers spent some of their half term holidays making sure that the social workers of the future are ‘young carer aware’.
November 9, 2023
It was an early start on Monday 16th October, for eight of the GYC team as we set off to Manchester to attend the ‘Young Carers Futures conference ‘the first from the Young Carers Alliance hosted by Carer Trust.
November 7, 2023
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