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Its panto season and this year we held four festive days out, and for Gary and Davina, our founding directors three visits were to the Beast’s Castle for Beauty and the Beast, on no they didn’t …. Oh yes, they did! It was brilliant to take all our staff, foster families, young people, and their …

Over the last year we have handed out 5 more Young People at Heart Bronze Awards for three years of service and 4 of our staff team have earnt the Young People at Heart Silver Award for 5 years of service. Our staff members commitment and loyalty to the organisation is outstanding and Gary and …

Our final Halloween event of the year was in Hereford, it was great to see everybody all dressed up in amazing costumes. There were lots of games which included Guess Who, Spider Splat, and the Mummy Wrap Challenge where there was lots of fun wrapping up staff members in toilet roll! Everyone did a great …

We were so lucky to enjoy, a Halloween draw along, with local author and illustrator Phil Sheppard. Our Young People created some amazing artwork and were lucky enough, to receive a book, written by Phil himself. Phil was also kind enough, to stay for photographs and do book signings. Afterwards, our young people enjoyed their …

This year our Essex team planned a slightly different Halloween Party, a trip to Call of the Wild Zoo! Situated in 9 acres of land the zoo has a variety of wildlife to see including ring tailed lemurs, meerkats, farmyard friends’, otters, and the Tropical House full of butterflies, our foster families were kept very …

Our birthday parties are one of our biggest events in the year and this year did not disappoint! With each office holding a local party this year our Hereford Team went to Cranham Scout Centre where everyone took part in lots of different activities which included Archery, climbing on the Traverse Wall, racing down the …

This month, Doncaster held their annual pride event in Elmfield Park; it was fabulous to see so many people celebrating diversity. Young People at Heart had their own recruitment stand, where staff helped to promote fostering and answer any questions people may have, hoping to spread the word about our wonderful agency and recruit some …

This month we have launched The Children’s Court Project in our Essex Office which allows our young People to see where decisions are made about them, it helps our young people understand who make the decisions and how a family court operates. The young people that attend go to the Chelmsford Family Court and meet …

With our Hereford foster carer base growing it was time for a new office to open in the Cotswolds. Having taken on a new office during Covid it only seemed right to have a party when everybody could get together to have an official office opening! We welcomed all our Foster Carers and young people …