Heartfelt Technologies are researching the effects of the lockdown on people’s lifestyles and health conditions, particularly on those who are chronically ill. They have a short online questionnaire you can fill in at https://forms.gle/HvZCEZNTxuLMvhvW7

As a carer, you may have seen impacts on your school progress, on your ability to stick to a timetable, and may even find you need to change career to find employment that works around your caring responsibilities. The Open University now have carers scholarships available to help put higher education back within your grasp […]

Caring Together is pleased to be able to offer a free online course for parents and carers of children with autism – the Hope programme. The Hope Programme is a six-week online group peer-support course based on positive psychology, mindfulness and cognitive behavioural therapy originally developed by Coventry University. It covers topics such as mindfulness, […]

Schools can play an invaluable role in identifying and supporting students who are carers. For Carers Week 2020 two schools who have the Carer Friendly Tick Award – Education spoken about what they have in place and why this is so valuable. Thank you to Ormiston Venture Academy in Norfolk and Hampton College in Peterborough […]

Angela Platt knows very personally the importance of preventing carers reaching crisis point – and this Sunday she will be cycling 100 miles for the cause that is so close to her heart. This week is Carers Week and we are asking people to act to prevent carers reaching crisis point. Angela’s family faced their […]

We are very grateful that so many of you took the time to complete our survey on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The feedback from you and other carers will help us to be able to make sure that we are doing all we can to support carers at this difficult time. It will also enable us to tell others such as […]

Carers have revealed to us the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on carers of all ages.  And with Carers Week taking place from 8–14 June we are calling on people to take action to help make a difference – and to avoid more carers reaching crisis point.    Carers tell us every day that coping with […]

Helping schools identify and support carers is an important  part of our work. And it has been superb to see how this has carried on during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. We are able to deliver awareness sessions by using Zoom, and Belinda from our awareness team recently delivered a training session to over 60 designated […]

A new campaign aimed at Norfolk’s young carers launches today. Led by Norfolk Safeguarding Children Partnership and supported by carers organisations Carers Matter Norfolk and Caring Together, Heroes at Home recognises the vital role young carers play in supporting their loved ones at home and highlights the range of support available to help them. It […]

Being a care worker can be a very rewarding career – even if it is one you might not have thought of before. Seeing us at a jobs fair in a shopping centre led to Michal now doing a job he loves and him making a big difference to the lives of those he supports. […]