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Young People at Heart Hereford’s foster carers, staff and children enjoyed an activity day in the grounds of the National Trust’s Woodchester Park in Gloucestershire today. The ‘Play Trail’ through the woods allowed the children to enjoy a day in the fresh air, exploring a variety of climbing frames, bridges, musical logs and balance beams, …

A group of our Hereford foster carers got together today to learn how to crochet. Amanda Bailey, wife of Hereford Manager Dave Bailey, lead the group and everyone enjoyed spending time together chatting and making some very pretty crochet flowers.  The group thoroughly enjoyed the morning and intend to meet regularly to improve on their …

Project Linus delivered a lovely selection of quilts to our Essex office for our young people in foster care recently. We had previously received quilts in our Hereford office where they have brought a great deal of comfort to our young people, so we are immensely grateful to the local Project Linus team for supporting …

About 40 of us, comprising foster children, foster families and staff from our Hereford office, enjoyed a lovey day out at Symonds Yat on the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire border today. We walked along the banks of the River Wye, crossing the unmarked border between England and Wales, and crossing back into England as we traversed …

Would you like to find out more about fostering, or are you currently fostering and would like to find out more about fostering for a not-for-profit, family value fostering organisation? Come and visit us at our upcoming event and have a chat with Sue Williams, our Yorkshire Manager, and Fran, an independent worker. We will …

On Friday 28 December our Essex office held another of our popular ‘drop and shop’ events where we arrange an activity day for our young people, while our foster carers have some time to themselves. We held this one at a scout hut next to a park and it was attended by 12 young people. …

Over the last two weekends, Young People at Heart took 270 people comprising young people in care, their foster families and support networks, staff and their families, and friends and supporters of the organisation to two Pantomimes; Peter Pan at The Courtyard Theatre in Hereford and Aladdin at the Thameside Theatre in Grays, Essex. During …

Our Hereford team invited foster carer families and young people to a Halloween Party in a local Villiage Hall today. The hall was decorated for the occassion with spiders, bats and cobwebs. Foster carers, young people and staff entered into the spirit of the event by dressing up in Halloween costumes. The young people took …

After much success with our offices based in Herefordshire and Essex, we’re launching our newest office in Barnsley with some coffee mornings for your chance to find out more about fostering with Young People At Heart. Would you like to find out more about fostering, or are you already fostering but would like to find …