Category - News – Essex

Gary and Davina, co-founders of Young People at Heart, joined us in our Essex office today to add their hand prints to the collage of hand prints that will hang in our activity room. This was the final section of the masterpiece that our Essex foster carers and children have worked hard to complete over …

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 …

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 …