Carers Week

Carers Week highlights the vital work done by unpaid carers who look after someone else because of illness, disability, frailty or other health issues. The theme for 2011 was ‘The True Face of Carers’ and it focused on what it is really like to be a carer.  Carers Week was an opportunity to challenge stereotypes about carers and to remind people that is it is a tough responsibility that can fall on anyone.

Carers Week 2011 - update

Thanks for all your support during Carers Week in June. We hope you found something you were interested in.
We had a very busy week!

• Our young carer workers had a stall at the No Wrong Door conference.
• We had a stall at York Explore library during Carers Week and staff from the Centre were available too. We also had another stall set up at Sainsbury’s (Monks Cross) all week.
• We were in the reception area of York Hospital all day Tuesday and Wednesday.
• We went to a open morning for parents and pupils at Applefields school.
• 29 carers and family members came to Browns department store’s pampering evening.
• Sami Richardson (young adult carer/Young Carers Revolution) and Wendy Smart (trustee) visited 10 Downing Street for a carers’ reception with the Prime Minister .
• We had a stall at the information event in the Guildhall run by York Carers Forum.
• Our young carers went to the Culture Shock Festival in Harrogate on Saturday.

We also went to the Minster service of remembrance (organised by York Carers Forum), spoke at a York Residents’ Federation meeting, and visited the MS Cafe in Haxby on Friday.

To find out more about the national Carers Week campaign visit the their website: www.carersweek.org/

Free bookmarks during Carers Week 2011

If you visited one of our stalls, or went to one of the libraries in York, during Carers Week you would have been able to pick up a free bookmark. These bookmarks have the key contacts for unpaid carers in York on them.

Working in partnership

Carers Week in 2010

Each year there is a different theme and for 2010 the theme was ' A life of my own'.  York Carers Centre we ran a number of events including a cream tea treat for carers at Goddards Garden, an information and pampering session for carers in Haxby and bag packing for Young Carers at Morrison's supermarket.  Find out more about the events we held in 2010: Carers Weeks success.