We have been fortunate to receive an Aviva Broker Community Fund award to provide activities for young carers during the school summer holidays. We will be holding free fun days between 10am to 3pm at the following dates and venues: 14th August - Acle War Memorial Recreation 15th August - Long Stratton High School 19th August [...]
Four of our Young Carers are doing something really different this half term. They are practicing hard with the Rosie Kay Dance Company at Norwich Theatre Royal ahead of a performance of a brand new dance piece on Tuesday 4th June. The main Rosie Kay Dance Company will be performing the Ten Soldiers, a dance performance [...]
We love being able to give our young carers not just respite opportunities but the chance to try new things and have different experiences. This weekend, thanks to Offshore Adventures and funders, we were able to give some young adult carers the chance to try sailing - not just relaxing, but actually being the crew for [...]
Back in November we introduced you to our Virgin London Marathon runner, Emily. Since then Emily has been on her marathon journey - full of training plans, fundraising, injury, finding ways to retain her fitness and has now started having the "marathon dreams" which we are assured is normal. During the past few months Emily has [...]
If you support young adult carers, aged 16 - 24 you may be interested in an exciting opportunity we have on offer. We have a limited number of spaces available for young adult carers on a sailing trip on Friday 12th April 6.00 pm until Sunday 14th 6.00 pm. The trip is fully funded, although the [...]
The Landmark Trust have kindly given us a free weekend at one of their lovely holiday venues. Thank you so much! This weekend 10 young carers and their support workers will be heading off to Cavendish Hall in Suffolk for a weekend of pampering and wellbeing respite. As well as the luxurious house there are some [...]
We are applying for funding to develop the work we do with family carers and are looking for information and your feedback to support our application. If you could spare a few minutes to complete this survey it would be much appreciated. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KBP9X9Q
We are really pleased to welcome Shiree and Tom to Norfolk Family Carers. They are both joining the Under 25's team and will be working with young adult carers and young carers. Shiree will be working in North Norfolk and Norwich. She is a dog lover and has two pugs called Cairo and Paris and enjoys [...]
Everyone at Norfolk Family Carers would like to wish to all our Family Carers, Funders, Supporters, Colleagues and Friends best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. Our office will be closed from Monday 24th December and will reopen at 9.00 am on Wednesday 2nd January.
Thursday saw twenty excited young carers gathering at Norfolk County Snow Sports for this years Christmas activity, Tubing! Many of them had never heard of tubing before Vikki, Claudia and Hayley, their support workers, suggested it as a different activity option they may like to consider . Once they understood what it was they were all keen [...]
