Three young carers and young adult carers from Gloucestershire attended an in-person meeting with the Young Carers National Voice at the University of Birmingham in April.
May 7, 2025
Over the Easter holidays, young carers and young adult carers from across Gloucestershire were given the opportunity to have their voices heard by meeting with their local Members of Parliament.
On Wednesday 12th March, a group of young and young adult carers travelled to Westminster to celebrate Young Carers Action Day (YCAD) with MP’s and other young carers from around the country.
March 19, 2025
On Wednesday 22nd January 2025, a group of young carers together with Gloucestershire Young Carers staff, delivered an online training session to social workers across the county in partnership with the Social Work Academy.
February 10, 2025
On Tuesday 28th January, we welcomed staff from the Nelson Trust to our office to hear from the Mosquito Mission, a group of young carers who have lived experience of caring for a parent with mental ill-health or substance misuse.
February 4, 2025
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
We were thrilled to welcome over 100 attendees, including professionals, staff, and young carers, at our annual Gloucestershire Young Carers Twilight Conference.
To mark Trustees Week, we interviewed one of our newest trustee, Carmen Orr.
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
Young carers raise awareness with staff from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
August 5, 2024
We are extremely pleased to welcome Cheryl Rhodes to the GYC Team as she takes up her appointment as CEO.
May 30, 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
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
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
We were delighted to present two Gloucestershire schools their plaque and certificate to mark their achievement of the GHLL Young Carers Accreditation, an award for schools demonstrating best practice in identifying and supporting young carers.
August 1, 2023
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