Young Adult Carers Winter Newsletter

The latest edition of our exciting newsletter!

The Winter edition of our Young Adult Carers newsletter is available now! If you're an Young Adult Carer (aged 18-35) you'll find lots to interest you - news of upcoming events when we can get together,

Download: 'Young Adult Carers Newsletter - Winter 2012' (800kb)

Young Adult Carers: Get together Dates...

Sometimes, getting away from our daily issues is a good thing to do. Relax, make new friends, have a change of scene! Here's some good news! You can do all these at our Young Adult Carers get togethers, which we hold regularly throughout Ryedale and Scarborough. We're aware that many young people aged 18 to 35 are caring for someone as part of their busy lives - and that's not easy. So, if you're one of these people, we'd love to meet you - come along to our get togethers and have a chat!

February Dates

Thursday 23/02/2012, 1.00 - 2.30pm
Training, Employment & Career Advice
Briercliffe Childrens Centre, Scarborough
An opportunity for Young Adult Carers to get advice about training, employment and careers.

Monday 27/02/2012, 10.00am
Ryedale Social Group
Caffe Stop, Pickering
A regular get together for Young Adult Carers (aged 18-35). Come along and relax, make new friends and share ideas.

March Dates

Monday 26/03/2012, 10.00am
Ryedale Social Group
Caffe Stop, Pickering
A regular get together for Young Adult Carers (aged 18-35). Come along and relax, make new friends and share ideas.

Volunteer Vacancies: Communication Volunteer & Activity Volunteer

Young Adult Carers (18 - 35) is seeking volunteers to play an active role in this exciting new project. We have vacancies for a Communications Volunteer and an Activities Volunteer. Information packs with job description and application form are available for download on our Working for Us page. [Go to page here].

Young Adult Carers - a Carers Resource project focussing on carers aged 18-35

With BIG Lottery funding we are really excited to be setting up a project to support Young Adult Carers aged 18-35 years.  There has been a buzz of excitment in the Carers Resource office since the arrival of two new members of staff, Jodie Peckitt (Support & Information Officer) and Neil Daniel (Activities & Volunteer Co-ordinator).

Our aim is to actively engage Young Adult Carers in the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale area.  We are looking to focus on providing support and advice to this particular group as well as offering social activities and volunteer opportunties.

We intend to raise awareness of Young Adult Carers and will work with a range of organisations and agencies in the local area to raise the profile of the project, as well as supporting professionals to identify carers.

Gina Culling will provide specialist advice and support around education, training and employment opportunties as part of this project. We will be running social events which could include pub quizzes, days out, meeting up for a cuppa and a chat; but a word of warning - the first person who suggests bungee jumping...  well you have been warned!

We are recruiting volunteers to assist with social activities.  The volunteer job descriptions can be found on our website.  Please get in touch if you are interested in being part of our volunteer team.

For further information about the project contact:
email: jodie@carersresource.net

or for information on activities and volunteer opportunities contact:     
email: neil@carersresource.net

or give us a ring on 01723 850155