The Trustees braved the cold for the morning session before moving indoors to the welcome warmth of the reception area of Greenacre Leisure for their Mulled Wine and Mince Pie fundraising event held on 11th December. Visitors to the event enjoyed delicious Mulled Wine and mouthwatering mince pies and Christmas Muffins, a fun Tombola, Guess […]

We are delighted to announce that following an application for local funding we have been awarded a grant from West Berkshire Partnership for £3,000. This generous amount will enable Rhys and his team to provide fun activities and support for Young Carers in 2014. This award will also allow Friends of Young Carers (West Berkshire) […]

Friends of Young Carers (West Berkshire) are the nominated charity for the New Year’s Day Quiz evening at the White Hart Inn, Hamstead Marshall. You can find out more about the event at the link below. http://www.whitehartinnhamsteadmarshall.co.uk/pages/whi_events_quiz.html

FOYC WEBS Kennet Radio Interview Ali Monjack from local station Kennet Radio interviewed Rhys Lewis, coordinator for Young Carers West Berkshire and Alison McIntyre, chair of Friends of Young Carers, West Berkshire at the Castlegate centre, Donnington, where she was also introduced to Sidney! Click the link above to hear the interviews in full.

Thanks to a great local company easy2name, we now have our brand new Logo Labels which we will be sewing into the wing of each and every one of our owls.

This little owl was first knitted by FOYC-Webs Trustee Elaine, whose husband Jerry, on thinking that she might get bored during her retirement, gave her a Let’s Knit magazine!! We have now adopted SIDNEY as our Charity Mascot and, in a short space of time, he has become very popular and quite a celebrity! More […]

Friends of Young Carers (West Berkshire) are delighted  to introduce our first local Corporate Sponsor – LANXESS UK. LANXESS are a global chemical and polymers company with the HQ of their UK Division based on Hambridge Lane in  Newbury. Managing Director, Kim O’Connor today presented a cheque to Trustees Lynne Duncan (Treasurer) and Alison McIntyre […]

Newbury Weekly News have written a nice article about our first fundraising event held at Greenacre leisure centre on September 14. Don’t forget to like us on Facebook to make sure you stay up to date with all the upcoming FOYC WEBS events. http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2013/fundraising-quiz-launches-new-west-berks-charity

Friends of Young Carers West Berkshire have a new website! Here at http://www.foyc-webs.org.uk you’ll be able to keep up to date with all the latest fundraising activities, charity news and information. On the right you can click to “Like” us on Facebook which helps spread the word.