Gloucestershire Young Carers

New Year 7s learn the Five Ways to Wellbeing at our Summer Workshop

In the final week of the school holidays young carers from across the county came together to take part in a special Caring Counts - our health and wellbeing programme - in partnership with the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme.

September 4, 2025

Young Adult Carers Take to the Skies!

A group of young adult carers aged 18+ were welcomed to Gloucestershire Airport by @flytohelp for a day none of them will ever forget. The day is part of their ‘Airsmiles’ programme.

September 4, 2025

Schools Roadshow: Working Together to Identify and Support Young Carers

From 10th – 12th March, we visited schools and colleges across Gloucestershire as part of our Schools Roadshow for Young Carers Action Day, highlighting the importance of working together to identify and support young carers.

April 4, 2025

Julia Rausing Trust supports Christmas Fun!

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

Putting the 'fun' in 'fundraising'!

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.

December 19, 2024

Young carers go to the top of the tree!

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.

December 19, 2024

"If only every conference was like this..."

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

Mosquito Mission deliver Guest Lecture at University of Gloucestershire

Third year social work students heard directly from young carers about how they want to be seen, heard and supported.

November 6, 2024

Young carers train the teachers of the future

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

Young Carers take over Manchester!

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

School groups workshop

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!

April 3, 2024

YAC Caring Counts

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

Young carers and the school census

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

Mosquito Mission makes a big impact at University of Gloucestershire

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

GYC attends Young Carers Futures conference in Manchester

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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