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Our Young People at Heart team were at the Gloucester Pride event today, recruiting foster carers from the LGBTQ+ community. Our special edition Rainbow Pride bug attracted a lot of interest and hundreds have found new homes! Gary Cox, Founder of Young People at Heart, said the needs of foster children were varied. Because of …

Our Essex and Hereford offices recently celebrated their 4th and 2nd birthdays so we held a joint Birthday Party today! Our foster carers, young people and staff teams travelled on coaches to Scout Adventures in Youlbury, Oxfordshire. Once there, we enjoyed a day of different activities. In the morning we built a campfire and toasted …

It’s been a very busy summer for our foster carers and young people. Inbetween many of them having some wonderful holidays locally and abroad, we held a number of activities up and down the country. Our Doncaster office held a picnic with our foster families in the grounds of the lovely Normanby Hall in North …

We held another of our popular Drop ‘n Shop days for our foster families based in our Essex office yesterday. We used the opportunity to provide our young people with basic first aid training, as well as a number of other activities, including making their own lunch, burning off energy in the play park, and …

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 …

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. …