Congratulations to Bannerman Road Community Academy on achieving Bronze in the Young Carers in Schools Awards delivered locally by Carers Support Centre.
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News for carers and health & social care professionals in Bristol & South Gloucestershire
Carers Week 2023 – June 8
Bookings for the next Carers Week event are now open!
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Can you help us raise awareness of caring and help people identify as carers? Can you help us promote our services so that more carers can come to us for support?
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Young Carers: Safeguarding Your Psychological welfare
Guest blogger Holly Dodd has some advice for young carers:
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Are you an adult sibling carer of someone with a learning disability? Be Mindful is offering a FREE online mindfulness course.
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Young carers get vocal on Young Carers Action Day
On Young Carers Action Day, the young carers of Bristol and South Gloucestershire have spoken out on the theme of the day – Make Time for Young Carers.
Continue reading “Young carers get vocal on Young Carers Action Day”New Carers Trust young carers survey released
A new Carers Trust survey released today (9th March) shows the devastating double whammy of the cost-of-living crisis and the increasing intensity of caring responsibilities shouldered by children and young people providing unpaid care to family members.
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We’ve joined the Carer Poverty Coalition alongside Carers and 90 other organisations.
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Watch Bristol Young Carers perform three pieces created with the Bath Philharmonia Creative Learning Team and Bristol Beacon Music Leaders.
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Have your say on ‘Ageing Well’ in the Innercity and East Bristol Locality. In Inner City and East Bristol locality, we are passionate about involving people who are closest to the problem in developing interventions.
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Your Park Bristol & Bath and the Carers Support Centre are looking for disabled people and unpaid carers to help make parks more accessible.
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The winter edition of our volunteers newsletter is now live.
Continue reading “Volunteers Newsletter – Winter Edition 2022”The cost-of-living crisis and unpaid carers
Our CEO, Tim Poole, discusses why the cost-of-living crisis affects carers more and points the way to sources of help and advice for carers in in Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
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Warm and Well is a service which offers free, local energy efficiency advice to households across Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire. Local Warm and Well advocate Mike Ellaby recently came to our Carers Rights Day event and ran a workshop for carers about keeping warm and healthy in their homes. Continue reading “Energy saving tips from Warm and Well”
Carers Trust research reveals bleak picture for unpaid carers
A new survey by the Carers Trust of carers from across the UK provides a stark assessment of how many of the UK’s seven million unpaid family carers have been plunged even further into financial misery by the cost-of-living crisis.
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Being a young carer can have a huge impact on wellbeing, education and life chances.
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Do you care for an older person? The University of Bristol would like to speak with carers and family members to understand your experiences and views about day care, as part of a research project.
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Despite the restrictions of the pandemic, our latest Impact Report reveals that the charity was able to increase the number of beneficiaries in key service areas.
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Making the hidden visible.
Go see a new art installation from Invisible Army which gives a voice to Bristol’s 40,138 unpaid carers.
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We are delighted to be part of the Co-op Local Community Fund for the next twelve months. We are raising money for young carers cookery sessions.
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