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Following successful foster carer recruitment events Essex and Herefordshire, it’s the turn of Yorkshire to be out and about recruiting foster carers. Would you like to find out more about fostering, or are you currently fostering and would like to find out more about fostering for a not-for-profit, family value fostering organisation? Come and visit …

Young People at Heart will be opening an office in Yorkshire in May 2018! Following the success of the Essex and Herefordshire offices, Young People at Heart have decided to open an office in Barnsley, Yorkshire. Sue Williams, an experienced and well respected Registered Manager in the region will lead the office. The office is …

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 …

Young People at Heart staff and foster carers spent a very enjoyable evening at the Mayor of Thurrock’s charity dinner last night, held in aid of local charities Contact the Elderly and the Thurrock Community Chest. We enjoyed a lovely meal and were entertained after dinner to performances of song and dance by the talented …

Saturday 14th October marked our first Fostering Panel held in Hereford. Panel members, lead by Panel Chair Dr. Andrea Warman, made it to Hereford from London by train, (despite the dreaded weekend engineering works at Reading!) to hold a Panel meeting in our Hereford office for three foster carer households. Following the Panel meeting, we …

Dave Bailey, Fostering Manager at our new Young People at Heart office in Hereford, has experienced an unprecedented amount of interest from foster carers wishing to transfer to Young People at Heart from a number of other fostering organisations in the region, as well as applications from people wishing to become foster carers. Dave said …

A new chapter in Foster Care comes to Herefordshire and the surrounding areas that’s proudly not for profit and for Young people! Young People at Heart was founded by Gary and Davina Cox in September 2014 as a not-for-profit fostering organisation where outcomes for young people were paramount to the organisation and everyone associated with …

Young people, foster carers and staff enjoyed a day of activities at Thriftwood Scout Camp in Brentwood yesterday to celebrate Young People at Heart’s second birthday, the anniversary of our first carers and young people joining the organisation. During the lunch break, Gary Cox who founded Young People at Heart with his wife Davina, presented …

Today marks an important day in the history of Young People at Heart as we officially open our second location, in the heart of Hereford. Gary Cox said he was delighted that Dave Bailey, an experienced fostering manager who previously worked for a venture capital backed fostering group, had accepted the challenge of bringing the …