Both primary groups welcomed Dylan's Reptiles back in to their sessions last week. They all really enjoyed meeting lots of different reptiles and we would like to say a massive thank you to Dylan for coming back to see us!🐍🐢🦎

Update on football - we have started SHYC FC back up and sessions are running regularly each month. Please get in touch to book your place!⚽️🥅

What a weekend with Lindley Education Trust. All of our Young Carers had such an amazing weekend and tried lots of new activities!🧗‍♀️🛶🚣 Thank you for providing our young carers with such a great oppurtunity💚

Thank you to @newton_tackle_and_baits / Diamond scaffolding for their very kind donation of Easter eggs for our Young Carers! We will be giving these out at activity sessions this week!!🐣🥚

A huge well done and Thank you to Rainhill St Ann's who raised £207.33 for St Helens Young Carers Centre during their annual charity fundraising day, the children took part in a penalty shootout to raise funds!

A massive Thank you to Garry Pennington who raised £4,630 for St Helens Young carers Centre!! Garry is the 2023 Captain of Ashton-In-Makerfield Golf Club and managed to raise this substantial amount of money by offering Charity Bunker games, sweeps, raffles and so much more. Thank you for your very kind donation and Support.

Thank you to Holy Cross primary for having us today. The Rotary club arranged a job fayre for year 4 and 5 children in the school, The purpose of the day was to raise children’s aspirations. It was lovely to speak to the children and tell them about our service and our job roles!

👏🏼👏🏼YOUNG CARERS ACTION DAY 2024👏🏼👏🏼 This year's theme was fair futures for Young Carers. The day focused on building a more equal future for young carers and removing barriers that many of their peers do not face. On Monday Kayleigh and Amy hosted a webinar to schools in St Helens to tell them more about our service and the support we can offer to Young Carers and schools to ensure all children including young carers have a fair future. On Wednesday 13th March (YCAD) we invited schools in St Helens to come and visit our centre and meet the staff. This gave schools the opportunity to have 1-1 discussions with the team about the work we do and working together to support Young Carers in their schools. It was great to see some social media posts from schools also about what they did to raise awareness on YCAD 2024🎉🎉 #youngcarersactionday

Our Yads had a great session jewellery making this week!

A massive Thank you to Rainford Ladies' Choir who are hosting a coffee morning to raise money for St Helens Young Carers Centre. We look forward to seeing you there!

A massive Thank you to Amie Hand who has picked us as her 'chosen charity', On Saturday 9th March, Amie is taking part in a charity boxing match (WCF) to raise money for St Helens Young Carers Centre. Please see Amie's 'Go Fund me' page for more info & to donate! https://www.gofundme.com/f/charity-boxing-match-for-young-carers

Thank you to Rachel from @merseycarenhsft who came and held a session with some of our Young Adults. We enjoyed a relaxing session creating art work around Young Carer identity and what it means to them.🎨🖼️

What a weekend we have had at @petty_pool_outdoor_centre !!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you so much for the opportunity that you have provided to our Young Carers. We look forward to returning🧗‍♀️🛶

WE ARE HIRING FOR OUR YOUNG CARERS TEAM! For more info and to Apply: https://www.sthelensyoungcarers.org/vacancies

NHS Cadets Programme launches in St Helens and Knowsley! Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (WCHC) is the first community trust in the UK to deliver the NHS Cadets Programme. Launched in October 2020, the 12-month programme engages with young people who would not normally get the opportunity to work or volunteer within the NHS. The programme, now in its fourth year, is going from strength to strength and is being delivered across St Helens and Knowsley. The fantastic initiative gives local young people, aged 16-18, a flavour of what it is like to volunteer and work in the NHS, as well as giving them the confidence and tools they need to develop and prepare for life. It provides young people with courses to develop their leadership skills, first aid awareness and volunteering opportunities in the NHS - including vital hands-on work experience in health and care settings. Hear from some of our Cadets… “My confidence has improved massively. I have learnt my own personal skill sets and found my strengths with the help of the staff. I can talk confidently and proudly of many different roles in the NHS. I am very passionate about my future career choice.” “My favourite session so far has been the neurodiversity session - it made me feel appreciated and unique for having additional needs.” “I loved engaging with all other cadets and seeing their funny and creative side and learning about what they want to be. It was a great way to get to know each other in a fun setting.” To work alongside our partners at The Hive, Vibe and St John Ambulance to deliver the NHS Cadets Programme is something our Trust is truly proud of. Volunteering and working in the NHS is about learning new skills and having new experiences - this programme helps the cadets develop tools they can use in the next steps of their journey. Being an NHS Cadet is a chance for local young people to make something theirs, all while making a difference to other people’s lives - this is what the NHS is all about. Young people can register their interest for the NHS Cadets Programme in St Helens and Knowsley by visiting St John Ambulance website. https://nhscadets.sja.org.

We are so proud to be Parish CofE Primary’s Year 4 Charity of the Year 💖 how lovely is this card made and given to us by their class.

We have just signed this open letter from the Learning And Work Institute calling on the Secretary of State to exempt Young Adult Carers from the full time education rule, which means they cannot claim Carer’s Allowance if they study for more than 21 hours per week. If your organisation would like to add your name- we have a link on our story. Deadline is tomorrow ✍🏻

Some snaps from Monday nights Primary activity! Our YC’s had fun getting stuck in with glass painting and playing games 🎮🎨

We would like to thank @cashforkidslivnw amazing Mission Christmas appeal. Their campaign provided so much support towards our families over Christmas ♥️

New Year, New Noticeboard! We’ve revamped our board with some pics from last quarter. Next time you’re at the centre see if you can spot yourself 👀🥰

📣Activity spaces are filling up fast! To book you or your child a place for the next quarter, head to our website- click on ‘Young Carers Programme’ and then the activities page! Alternatively give us a call on 01744 677336 🙌🏼

That’s a wrap for 2023 at Young Carers! What a year it’s been ♥️ From all of us here at Young Carers, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and the best wishes for the New Year. We are now closed and re-open on the 2nd January 🗓️ We would like to wish the very best of luck to our lovely Young Carer Wellbeing Officer Jasmin as she moves on to a new role due to relocation. We will miss you loads 💝

What a way to round off a year of activities with our secondary Christmas party last night! What a great night- Thanks to Gary the DJ from @face2face05 💝

Some pictures from the Primary Christmas party on Monday 🎅🏼♥️🥳 special thanks to @face2face05 and of course Santa for making it so fun!

Thanks to @cashforkidslivnw appeal, we were so thrilled to receive so many gifts and toys for our families and Young Carers💝

Last Thursday, we were kindly invited to the North West Contractors Training Group (NWCTG) annual Christmas meeting, to collect lots of presents they have kindly donated for our Young Carers. Thank you for your continued generosity over the last few years- it blows us away every time 🤩 And a huge thank you to the North West Ambulance Service for the chocolate too- we have been gifting these across our Young Carers during their parties ☺️🍫

Our School Outreach in 2023 wrapped with St James CofE Young Carer PHSE workshops with Year 4, 5 &6 on the 12th December ☺️ Thank you for having us! The students showed amazing insight and it was great to explore the role and impact of Young Carers further following a whole school assembly! Thank you to all of our schools for your commitment to supporting Young Carers in the past year, we can’t wait to continue the work in 2024 ⭐️

We are overwhelmed with the generosity of our community this Christmas 💖 thank you so much to Olivia for donating these gifts for our Young Adult Carers 🫶🏼

During the Christmas Tree Festival at the United Reform Church, the wonderful choirs of both Queens Park Primary and Cowley High School raised a wonderful £600 for our service. Huge thank you to Margaret Bellis for bringing us this donation and organising this festival for all these years to raise money for our Young Carers ❤️

Thank you so much to: Antony Young of IQ blade Lucas Wilkie Sheila For your generous Christmas present donations 💖 It is so appreciated 🎄

Our newsletter is here! 🥳 You can access it via our website and we will be posting it to our families today. In this edition we reflect on 2023, and feature exciting news, updates and our ⭐️new activity timetable- BOOK NOW!⭐️

Well the tree was slightly taller than anticipated🤣 but our favourite time of year is here- putting up our tree at the United Reform Church. 🎄Over the next few days there are 3 carol concerts taking place to kindly raise funds for our Young Carers ❤️ swipe to the last slide for more information!

Thank you so much to the lovely people of our St Helens community for your generous Christmas gift donations and to the lovely Kelly and Ben for delivering the (hundreds of!) of presents yesterday as part of the @dunelmuk #dunelmdeliveringjoy campaign🎁 We will be gifting these to our Young carers and families in the next few weeks to spread the joy ❤️ PS. Keep your eyes peeled for an exciting update regarding this soon 👀

‘Tis the season here at Young Carers! 🎄we’ve been busy and cosy getting the centre festive over the past week during the respite sessions 🎅🏼❤️

Happy Carers Rights Day! We are a proud member of #YoungCarerNationalVoice. Swipe through the 7 asks that were submitted by some of the YCNV young people, to the recent APPG enquiry, calling on more effective support for Young Carers across the board.👉🏼 Please read the report here: https://carers.org/downloads/appg-for-young-carers-and-young-adults-carers-reportlr.pdf

🎄📢Message from St Helens Council: We will be holding a provider event on Friday 1st December between 11.00am to 2.00pm at Central Link Children's Centre, Peter Street, St Helens, WA10 2EB. We would like to invite parents/carers and children/young people to drop in and meet with HAF providers and have a better idea of what activities are on offer and an opportunity for you to ask any questions that you may have. Refreshments will be available. This will give parents/carers the opportunity to ask any questions they may have about our HAF provision. The Winter Holiday Activity and Food Programme (HAF) will be running from Wednesday 27th December 2023 to Friday 5th January 2024 for all eligible children, young people, and families. Those who wish to attend must be eligible to access the HAF programme. The programme is open to children aged 4-18 years who are eligible for and receiving benefits-related free school meals (FSM), and their families. Children who are in receipt of a support plan via Early Help, Child in Need or Children We Look After, EHCP, or if your child receives additional hours at school. If you require any further information, please call Central Link Children’s Centre 01744 673445. #HAF2023 funded by the Department for Education.

Thank you to Steve and Cathy from ‘Rythm Reaction’ for delivering two fun sessions this week, with our Primary and Secondary B groups🤩 we’re looking forward to have you back again next week for more fun and therapeutic workshops 🥁

Some pics from last weeks Primary B session! Thank you to Sharon at Cabbage Hall allotment for hosting a design your own clock workshop for a group of our primary children. They had an amazing time doing these and we look forward to more sessions from Sharon in the future! ⏰💚

Thank you to the lovely volunteer Su for continuing to support our Young Carers with their maths, via 1:1 sessions and the group workshops! The feedback has been brilliant, and if you would like to find out more or get involved- please let us know🤩

We were honoured to be invited to be invited to The Rotary Club meeting yesterday to accompany one of our lovely Young Carers Dylan who recently took part in a four day residential at @petty_pool_outdoor_centre. An incredible opportunity facilitated and funded by The Rotary Club. Here is the write up from The Rotary Club of St Helens: Support for Dylan Johnson’s Participation in RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards): The second youth initiative undertaken by Rotary St Helens involved supporting a young carer, Dylan Johnstone, who cares for his sister. Dylan attended a Rotary Leadership course known as RYLA. This program took place at the Petty Pool Centre in Nantwich and was designed to nurture leadership skills and personal development in young individuals. Dylan Johnston’s participation in RYLA is a testament to Rotary St. Helens' commitment to empowering young people and providing them with opportunities for growth and self-discovery. RYLA courses are renowned for their ability to inspire leadership qualities, build self-confidence, and enhance problem-solving skills. By supporting Dylan's attendance at RYLA, the Rotary Club helped him develop important life skills that will undoubtedly serve him well in the future. The St. Helens Rotary Club's Youth Initiatives, as demonstrated through the two highlighted initiatives, exemplify the organisation's dedication to fostering the personal growth and development of young individuals. These initiatives not only provide valuable experiences but also create lasting memories and equip participants with life skills that will benefit them throughout their lives. Rotary St. Helens continues to be a positive force in the community, making a difference in the lives of young people like the Parkdale Football Team and Dylan Johnson. These initiatives not only empower individuals but also contribute to building a stronger, more resilient community. The celebration of these initiatives serves as a reminder of the positive impact that Rotary can have on the lives of young people and the broader community they serve. Dylan was presented with a certificate for his endeavours by President Simon Hairsnape.

Yesterday we hosted a Premier of @cusp_films short film ‘Hidden’ featuring our wonderful YC ambassador @justjude7. We were also grateful to show case the accompanying documentary, tying in the issues that the film highlights, featuring true stories from our very own Young Carers and staff. We were heart warmed by the wonderful, impactful speeches from @michaeltstevenson and Zak, one of our lovely YADS. Thank you to all from the community, our trustees, funders and school Young Carer Champions who came to show your support. And thank you to @lucemhouse78 for having us. 🍿 Keep your eyes peeled… we will soon be sharing how to watch the films once available! How exciting! 🎬🎞️ #hiddenfilm

As some of you may be aware, earlier this year – for Young Carers Action Day 2023, @carers.trust and the Young Carers Alliance sent an open letter to the Prime Minister, signed by over 80 organisations and more than 200 parents/young carers calling on him to show his support for young carers. Eight months on, young carers and those who support them have still not received a reply. A number of the young carers who have been youth advisors to the APPG for Young Carers and Young Adult Carers inquiry felt that this is not right – young carers urgently need more support. So Carers Trust have supported 4 of the youth advisors to write a follow-up letter to the Prime Minister which they will hand in on Tuesday 14th November – the day the APPG inquiry report is published in Parliament. We are asking our Young Carers to Sign our open letter calling for better support for young carers. Click the link in our Insta bio to read and sign the open letter 📝

Greg from @escapethevan delivered a 2 day event for our secondary and YADS group this week. Each of our groups had a set time to escape from a chemical lab experiment. Safe to say, they all escaped 🔓👀 we would like to say a massive Thank You to Greg, it was enjoyed by everyone!! 🚚🕵🏻‍♂️

Some snaps from Mondays Primary session! They had fun decorating their own pumpkins, or had the option to play some games or just chill out on our new bean bags! 🎮🎃🧩

Last week, our YADS had fun decorating some glass bottles ready for Halloween, with Kath one of our Adult Carers 🎨

Yesterday we attended the first ever in-person @carers.trust Young Carers Future Conference. It was such an insightful, empowering day with a focus on Prevention, Intervention and Reduction strategies and ensuring Young Carers reach their potential. Inspiring 💪🏼 #ycfutures2023

Dan from @altrudrama visited our secondary A group on Tuesday evening to deliver a workshop around healthy relationships. We would like to thank Dan and look forward to future projects! 🎭

We love delivering assemblies in schools across the borough to raise awareness of Young Carers and our service. Here’s some snaps from this morning at Eaves Primary. If you would like us to visit your school get in touch! It’s vital that all schools have an awareness of Young Carers and that students have the opportunity to self identify if they are hidden caring roles.

We would like to shout out Queens Park Primary School, for achieving the Young Carer In School Bronze Award. What an amazing and meaningful achievement 🌟 it was lovely to celebrate with you! The Young Carer In School Programme helps primary and secondary schools improve outcomes for Young carers and celebrates good practice through the Young Carers In School Award. This award is being re-vamped and due to be re-launched in January, but in the meantime schools can sign up to the Young Carer In School Challenge- head to the link on our story or get in touch with Eleni, our Outreach Officer for more information!

PART 2! @hillvaleanimals also visited our Secondary A and YADS activities last week 🤩🦎🐍🐢🐌

The faces of pure awe during from our Primary A Group🤩 Thank you to the lovely Jo from @hillvaleanimals for providing such great sessions last week 🐹🐍🐢🐌🦎💚 Stay Tuned for part 2 from our Secondary and Yads sessions! 👀

We loved visiting Merton Bank during their Friday Young Carer Nurture Group to celebrate their #youngcarerinschools Bronze Award🏆 what an achievement! ⭐️ School Support is so valued by our service, Young Carers and their families. If you would like to find out more about how your school can get involved in the YCIS award, get in touch with our Outreach Officer Eleni on 01744 677279.

⭐️Quest For Cash Challenge 2023⭐️ Any fundraising efforts big or small would be much appreciated. It’s just as much about raising awareness for our Young Carers ♥️

It’s been lovely welcoming back our Young Carers last week! We can’t wait for all of the fun sessions we have to look forward to this quarter 🍁🍂

Chattin’ 4 Action is back! 📣 This project is a great opportunity to play a pro-active part in influencing your schools awareness and support when it comes to Young Carers! If you would like to get involved get in touch 🤩

ATTENTION YOUNG CARERS: GREAT OPPURTUNITY! The Deafness Resource Centre will be hosting a Basic Sign Language Workshop on the 21st of December 4:30pm - 5:30pm at The Young Carers Centre. This will be open to anyone Year 6+ If you would like to register your interest, please get in touch with our activity coordinator via email 👉🏼tjayreecemcdavid@sthelenscarers.org.uk

Thank You to Eaves Primary School for having us along to your staff INSET day to deliver Young Carer staff training this morning! We will always value and support a holistic school approach to identifying and supporting Young Carers 😊

Our YADS loved meeting all of the lovely (and very photogenic!) animals at @woodlandsalpacafarm thank you for having us! 🥰🐐🐴🦙🐈‍⬛

thinking of all of our Young Carers receiving their GCSE results today! We’re proud of you always, regardless 🫶🏼

Yesterday our secondary group had a fun day at @north_west_face_climbingcentre! Look at our Young Carers go!!! 🧗‍♀️See if you can spot yourselves 🧐

It was great to go for a walk up to The Dream yesterday with some of our Primary Group! The weather held out for us and we even had a yummy picnic too 🧺

@chapelhousemotors are seeking nominations for their generous give away. The funds would support the services we provide to our 15,000 Young and Adult unpaid carers 🫶🏼 Please consider nominating our charity via the link on our story, it takes 2 minutes. Thank you!

As the Summer Holidays are coming to a close, we're getting ready to head #backtoschool2023. 1 in 12 young people have caring responsibilities. That could be 3 #youngcarers in every classroom! We will continue to work closely with schools across our borough to support with Young Carer best practice. Here is a brilliant resource made by members of Young Carer National Voice launched for #youngcarersactionday earlier on in the year. Young Carers, if you have any feedback about the support that you receive in school, please get in touch with us. We would love to hear from you!

🎉Quest For Cash is back!! 🎉 Fancy getting involved in our challenge to have some fun and raise some funds for our charity? Get in touch for more info 🤩

We loved our day out at the @worldmuseum_ on Wednesday with our primary group!🌍🐬🦕🪨

Our Autumn Newsletter is live on our website!🍁 You can also BOOK NOW on to activities 🕺🏻 head to the link in our bio. We will be mailing out physical copies in the post on Friday 👀💌

Swipe for more info for our fun maths workshops starting soon at our centre. Aimed towards year 10 & 11’s! 🙌🏼

Thanks to our lovely sessional staff member Kerry for putting together this video following the primary sessions @madsciencenw session on Monday! 🧫🧪👩🏻‍🔬🥼

sadly the rain called off our planned sports session last Monday but our primary group had fun with a cosy games day at the centre instead! ☔️🫶🏼📸

Fab Uniform Swap Scheme on 10th August 😊 ♻️

Back in April, some of our Young Carers got the exciting opportunity to attend the Young Carer National Voice meet-up in Birmingham. It was great to meet with people individuals from Young Carer services across the country who we have connected with online for a while. Today the video that we took part in on that day has been released, explaining all about YCNV. Keep your eyes peeled for some of our Young Carers who feature 🤩 with thanks to @glosyoungcarers for putting together this video! 🎥 If any of our Young Carers would like to find out more or get involved with Young Carer National Voice, please get in touch with us 😊

Last week, our Primary Group had a visit from @rabtales who delivered a very special 🛸Alien Workshop 👽featuring a reading of his book ‘The Late Crew’ all about young carers and aliens!! Head to our story for a link to find out more or find out how to buy 📚👾

Just our YADS being models 💁🏻‍♀️ Throwback to when @ghostgirlphotos kindly delivered a photography workshop to our Young Adult Carers! What a fun and inspiring day this was, thank you 😊📸

Our team would like to take a moment to boast about one of our lovely and talented Young Carers Ava on her latest achievement. She is officially a Junior World Ju Jitsu Champion 🌟 Congratulations!!!! we are very proud of you!!🥋💖👏🏻

We had such a ball at St Helens Pride on Saturday! 🌈♥️ lovely to see lots of familiar faces too

Greg from Escape the Van hosted a Young Carer escape room for our secondary group last Tuesday! Our YC’s had a great evening- thank you Greg! 🔐🕵🏻‍♂️

Our YC’s had a fun time making bracelets in our jewellery making activity. We would like to say a massive thank you to Doris who helped us out over the week 💖 💎

Colour Run photo dump! 🏃‍♀️✅ We had a great time on Saturday. If you would like to donate, please head to our JustGiving link in our profile, thank you ♥️

We won the June @enterprisecreditunion community donation draw! 🥳 We are so grateful 💌

Brilliant and insightful day in Blackpool yesterday for the Children Who Care Too conference. @blackpoolcarers thank you for having us! 🌞

Young Carer staff are completing their 5k colour run this Saturday! 🏃‍♂️🎨 If you would like to sponsor us, to raise funds for our services- head to the link in our stories and bio ♥️

Calling all Year 11 Young Carers! Thank you to @teardropsorguk for this amazing scheme 💖

📣 CHATTIN’ 4 ACTION IS BACK 📣 (with a new logo!) This time, our committee project will be an exciting opportunity to develop a new Young Carer discount card! We want all of our Young Carers to have access to discounted rates in shops and places across St Helens. You will be part of the marketing, designing and enterprising a scheme that we hope to roll out to all of our Young Carers. Commences 22nd June! If you’re in year 9 and above, and would like to get involved- please get in touch 💌

Our Young Carers enjoyed their days out last week during half term! We visited The North West Museum of Road Transport, Super Bowl St Helens & Junk Yard Golf in Liverpool! 😃

This year @carers_week are campaigning for greater UK Government support for unpaid carers. Our Carers Week 2023 campaign calls for greater cross-Government action in support of unpaid carers, to prevent poverty, help carers stay in or return to work, combat loneliness, and improve carers’ health and wellbeing. Carers Trust have a great resource to support you with your letter and opportunity to be a part of the fantastic campaign, get your voice heard! Head to our stories for the link!

how many #youngcarers are currently registered with our service ♥️ #carersweek2023

To commence #carersweek2023 we have sent an e-bulletin to all of our schools to share information about Carers Week, updates on our service and how vital school engagement is for Young Carers.

what a weekend!! 🙌🏼 Thank you for having us @caftcharity

Resi photo dump! 📸 What a fun weekend at @caftcharity with a group of our Young Carers. 🌞 stay tuned for more pics- too many memories to choose from!

Good luck to all of our wonderful Young Carers on your exams 📚we’re all rooting for you. Remember your ability to do exams do not define who you are. Try your best, believe in yourself and remember we’re here if you need us! #youngcarers #gcses #alevels

Young Carers - Have you booked on to our new activities yet? We can’t wait to welcome you all back! You should of all now received your new timetable in the post 😁

Have you booked on to our new activities yet? We can’t wait to welcome you all back! Here’s some snaps from some recent sessions. We had fun learning how to make some music on the decks with DJ Tom, we got arty with some crafts and even ventured in to some drama in a game of Articulate! Our Young Carers are a creative bunch ♥️

As SATS week commences, we wanted to wish all of our lovely year 6’s the very best of luck. We are very proud of you regardless 💖

We would like to extend a huge thank you to the members of the St Helens NFU Ladies Social Section for choosing us as their chosen charity and the generous donation 💖 your kind contribution will go towards providing ongoing support for all of our Young Carers.

🐣Easter half term fun 🐣 during the holiday, our primary and secondary group both had a visit to @theworldofglasssthelens we were given a tour around the museum and mines and a demonstration of the hot glass blowing! We also had a fun sport afternoon and a trip to the cabbage hall allotments! Thank you as always to everyone involved so that we can provide fun respite for our wonderful Young Carers!

Over half term out Young Adult Group enjoyed a trip to Crosby Marina. They took part in team building, puzzles and orienteering!

The Young Carers Team were very proud and honoured to be presented an Award at the High Sheriff Awards Ceremony. It was amazing to be recognised for the work that we do as a service❤️ Thank you to @hsmerseyside for all of your time and effort over the past 12 months, it has been greatly appreciated 🙏🏻

On Friday, some of our Young Carers got the exciting opportunity to attend the Young Carer National Voice meet-up in Birmingham. Young Carers from across the country gathered to learn about campaign strategies and to develop future projects about issues that impact on Young Carers. Thank you to @sheffyoungcarers for facilitating such a brilliant event. We can’t wait to get involved in future fun projects!

Although it was a short week, last week sure was a busy one! On Thursday, Chattin’ 4 Action hosted their ‘speed networking event’ in aid of #YoungCarersActionDay 2023 The event facilitated a way for our Young Carers to connect with local wellbeing services to learn more about each-other. At the end, all participants shared how they plan to #maketimeforyoungcarers moving forwards. Well done to our Chattin’ 4 Action group you were amazing and thank you to the amazing services who attended. ‘Excellent event- very well run and the Young Carers were amazing and inspiring to talk to’ ♥️

A massive Thank You to Jenny from You Fit Gym in Haydock and Melanie and David Pye for their very kind donations of Easter Eggs for our Young Carers!