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Throughout April Young People at Heart’s staff team took part in a virtual walking challenge, Walk for Ukraine. The challenge was to collectively walk from the Essex Office to Independence Square in Kyiv, totalling 1,505 miles. Gary and Davina kindly agreed that Young People at Heart would donate £1,505 to the Ukraine appeal on completion …

We really are enjoying being able to hold face to face events again. Our Easter Half term event for our Essex office was a great success. Our Young People came together for a fun filled afternoon where they decorated an Easter Bonnet before joining in an Easter Bonnet parade showing off their wonderful creations. Everybody …

March has been the month of PACE Training for Young People at Heart. PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy) is a model of caring and parenting developed by Dan Hughes. It helps support and form secure attachments with children and young people who may have experienced difficulties in early life. By adopting the PACE model, the …

With Covid restrictions lifted there was no stopping us putting our Christmas jumpers on for Pantomime Season. Having missed our annual trip to the theatres last year we were so excited to be able to take all our staff, foster families, young people, and their support network to shout, cheer and sing along to the …

The 10th of August marks a special day for Young People at Heart. That’s because on 10th August 2015, our first three carers transferred, with their young people, so that’s the day our incredible journey began.

With families stuck indoors and kids home from school children across the UK have been painting rainbows and placing them in windows for a number of weeks now to signal support for the NHS who have been working tirelessly on the frontline throughout the pandemic.   The rainbows have served a practical function to give children a chance to flex …

Young People at Heart took a total of nearly 450 people to the Pantomime this year, comprising our young people, their foster families and support networks, staff and their families, and friends and supporters of the organisation to one of three Pantomimes around the country; Cinderella at the Cast Theatre in Doncaster, Dick Whittington at …

Following the succesful opening of Young People at Heart in Herefordshire in September, and in keeping with Young People at Heart’s tradition of inviting young people, foster carers, potential foster carers, staff and their families to the Pantomime, we took 75 people to the see Sleeping Beauty at the Courtyard Theatre in Hereford yesterday. Foster …

It was with great sadness that we learned that one of our foster carers, Linda Daniel, passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. Linda had been a foster carer for many years, and joined us from Time for Children two years ago. In a letter to staff and foster carers, Gary Cox, Founder of Young Peoiple …