A carer is anyone who cares, unpaid, for someone who cannot cope without their support due to illness, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction. Tarek, seven looks after his arthritic mum, Caroline. The 2011 census identified 10,000 carers aged 5-7, up 83% on the previous decade. The true figure is likely […]

Now and again we would like to share with you some of the individual help that we give to our Young Carers in West Berkshire. A Young Carer will understand how this could make a huge difference to their day to day caring role. Most children will not understand this at all. It’s not easy […]

Barbara manages all the Applications for Funding for Young Carers in West Berkshire and liaises between West Berks Council Young Carers Project, Activity Providers, Bus and Coach Hire Companies as well as attending some of the projects and activities that we fund. Needless to say, she is a busy lady!! However, Barbara is also a […]

Well here we are in August and the summer is flying past. It’s not to late to show you some of the activities that our Young Carers have been up to over the summer months though and all this has been made possible thanks to our amazing supporters throughout the West Berkshire community. When we see the children having […]

Last Saturday we took all our ‘Sidney’ owls on an outing to Elstree Preparatory School Fete. It was a gorgeous sunny day and we were looking forward to meeting the boys and staff members. Little did we expect that just over an hour later we would have parted company with all 78 owls and made […]