Fulfiling potential

Carers Centre SA currently support over 6,500 carers across Barking and Dagenham and Havering and young carers across Barking and Dagenham and Thurrock. Every year they identify around 1000 new carers which is a huge demand on their services. They support over 1700 young carers from Barking and Dagenham and Thurrock. Carers Centre SA offer carers and young carers information, advocacy and support, which includes carers peer support groups, young carers and carers social activities, information events and health and wellbeing days. Our grant will fund training workshops across Barking and Dagenham for young carers, supporting their development into adulthood. The workships will focus on young carers aged 12-16 years and deliver 4 workshops covering money management including student loans, CVs, Social skills, further education and university options, volunteering and mentoring skills.

The workshops will be offered to young carers in transition at school years 9 to 11 it will help them to think about their future and plan for the future.

Your funding helped to make a difference to young carers lives and we find trips and fun activities are particularly useful to bring young carers together giving them a break from their caring role alongside other young people who have the tacit knowledge of being a young carers.

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