Category - News – Hereford

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …