Gloucestershire Young Carers

Carers Week: Pushing for Equality in School Support

In the build up to carers week young and young adult carers from Gloucestershire Young Carers have been continuing their campaigning for greater support in education for young carers, ensuring they receive equal opportunities to their peers.

June 10, 2025

Young Carers Voices - Stronger Together!

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

A Full Range of Eggsperiences for Young and Young Adult Carers this Easter

The two weeks Easter holidays give GYC a lot of opportunities to enable young people to have fun, respite and enjoy new experiences.

May 7, 2025

Young Carers Face-To-Face With Their Local MPs

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.

May 7, 2025

‘Give Us A Break’ - Young Carers Share their Stories in Powerful Film

On Monday 17th February, young carers from the 'Our Voice' forum took part in a creative workshop with the Everyman Theatre. They were working towards co-creating an illustrated film to raise awareness for Young Carers Action Day.

April 4, 2025

Young Carers in Westminster: Turning Conversations into Action

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

Young Carers Turn Experiences into Powerful Stories thanks to the Everyman Theatre

On Monday 17th February, young carers from the 'Our Voice' forum took part in a creative workshop with the Everyman Theatre.

March 5, 2025

The powerful voices of young carers influence social workers

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

Young carers bring in ’Year of the Snake’ with crafty activities

Thanks to The Ernest Cook Trust, young carers in Stroud enjoyed an evening full of nature-based crafts – all themed to the Chinese New Year.

February 10, 2025

Building connections to better support young carers

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

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

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

Punches, Kicks, and New Friendships: A Day at Cheltenham’s Strike and Grappling Academy

For our October half term activity young carers had a session with the Strike and Grappling Academy in Cheltenham.

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

Jonjo O'Neill's Racing

A massive thank you to the team at Jonjo O'Neill Racing for an unforgettable day at Jackdaws Castle! Our group of twenty young carers had the amazing opportunity to visit the yard, learn about the industry and meet the horses!

September 10, 2024

Gloucester Fun Fair

On August 7th, we took over 30 young carers to Bob Wilson's Fun Fair at Gloucester Park. Thanks to the incredible generosity of the fair, we enjoyed two hours of thrilling rides and games!

September 10, 2024

Cotswold Wildlife Park Trip

On Tuesday, July 30th, Gloucestershire Young Carers took over 50 young carers to Cotswold Wildlife Park.

August 6, 2024

All About Young Carers

Young carers raise awareness with staff from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.

August 5, 2024

Carers Week - Luna's Story

Luna shares her story with us this #CarersWeek.

June 17, 2024

Carers Week - Ines' Story

Ines shares her story with us this #CarersWeek.

June 14, 2024

Carer's Week - Merri's Story

Merri shares her story with us this #CarersWeek.

June 11, 2024

Welcome to Cheryl

We are extremely pleased to welcome Cheryl Rhodes to the GYC Team as she takes up her appointment as CEO.

May 30, 2024

GYC's Sports Day

On May 28th, young carers took part in a fantastic Sports Day run by Gloucestershire Young Carers at Cheltenham Ladies College Sports Centre.

May 30, 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

Young Carers are special guests at CTFC match

On Monday 1st April 2024 three young carers were given the opportunity to be special guests at Cheltenham Town FC vs Exeter City in a crucial Sky bet League One match at the Completely-Suzuki Stadium.

April 3, 2024

Young Carers Action Day 2024

Young Carers Action Day 2024 is fast approaching - this year it falls on Wednesday 13th March. The theme is fair futures for young carers and its focus is on why caring should not be a barrier to learning, earning or being able to get on in life – but how for many, it is.

February 27, 2024

Empowering young carers: National Voice comes together to plan for the year ahead.

On Wednesday 15th February, Gloucestershire Young Carers attended the Young Carers National Voice forum in person at the University of Birmingham.

February 26, 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

GYC Attends Launch of Enquiry into Life Opportunities of Young Carers at the House of Lords

GYC was invited, alongside other local and national organisations, for the report launch of the first ever parliamentary inquiry into young and young adult carers. This report has revealed that a lack of support for young carers is having a devastating impact on their education, wellbeing and future prospects.

December 12, 2023

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

Caring Counts reaches 50!

Our Caring Counts programme runs throughout the year with different age groups and is offered to young carers aged 11+. We discuss the strengths and challenges of being a young carer and what we can do to keep ourselves healthy and support our wellbeing.

October 16, 2023

YAC’s Day Out at the Lake

Huge thanks to FIND NATHAN Fund, who made it possible for Gloucestershire Young Carers to take 25 young adult carers to the South Cerney lakes for a day of activity, fun, relaxation and connection.

August 31, 2023

Two schools awarded Young Carers Accreditation!

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

With Juliet’s help our young carers enjoy reading a book.

Thanks to Juliet Stainforth we have created a library of books for our young carers to access. Juliet has many contacts in the world of publishing, she has sourced lots of lovely books which over the years she has very kindly donated to Gloucestershire Young Carers.

July 31, 2023

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