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Our feel-good Friday story this week is all about the brilliant work our Hereford team has done creating an allotment to give our foster families and young people opportunities to meet and connect with other families whilst offering a great way of spending time with nature and being able to encourage, observe and enjoy wildlife. …

Disability Pride month takes place each July and is an opportunity to start conversations to raise awareness of all disabilities and celebrate everything that people with disabilities bring to society. The month is a chance to focus on and celebrate the disabled community and their pride. Two of our young people who should certainly feel …

I started my career in Social Work when I was 24, having worked as a home carer whilst studying for my Social Work qualification. Although most Social Workers these days qualify as younger postgraduates than when I qualified, I was the youngest on my course and easily the youngest in my team when I gained …

When I was asked if I would write a piece for International Women’s Day at first I didn’t really know where to start, so I thought I’d start at the beginning. My first memory of a powerful woman is that of my Nana. She was a real family woman who had 10 children (sadly one …

As we reach the end of National Storytelling Week, we thought we would highlight two of the events and activities our not-for-profit foster care organisation has undertaken to promote reading and literacy for our foster carers and foster children. Towards the end of last year, Doncaster author and illustrator Phil Sheppard came to one of …

Today, the 24th of January is the International Day of Education and celebrates the role education plays in our society.

Its panto season and this year we held four festive days out, and for Gary and Davina, our founding directors three visits were to the Beast’s Castle for Beauty and the Beast, on no they didn’t …. Oh yes, they did! It was brilliant to take all our staff, foster families, young people, and their …

Over the last year we have handed out 5 more Young People at Heart Bronze Awards for three years of service and 4 of our staff team have earnt the Young People at Heart Silver Award for 5 years of service. Our staff members commitment and loyalty to the organisation is outstanding and Gary and …

Our final Halloween event of the year was in Hereford, it was great to see everybody all dressed up in amazing costumes. There were lots of games which included Guess Who, Spider Splat, and the Mummy Wrap Challenge where there was lots of fun wrapping up staff members in toilet roll! Everyone did a great …