Charities across the North West will benefit from Lancashire’s biggest music festival this summer. Lytham Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and up to 100,000 people are expected to visit the annual musical extravaganza from Wednesday July 10 to Sunday July 14. And five charities from across the region will be represented at […]
Awareness Raising
Corporates come together to care about carers
Our first Caring Corporates Event, held here at Beaverbrooks House on 21st March, saw business bosses from Blackpool come together to find out more about the work that we do, how they can support us and, most importantly, how we can support carers within their workforces. Did you know that 1 in 8 workers have […]
Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden spoke in Westminster yesterday and highlighted work done by Blackpool Carers. Watch the debate here…
Last year the charity based at Beaverbrooks House supported 666 young carers. Two of these, Catlin and Claire met with Gordon last autumn to chat about how they balanced their caring responsibilities with their education. 48% of all the young carers the charity supported in 2018 were caring for a parent because of substance misuse […]
Young Carers become the main headline at the Boing Boing Resilience Forum
A fantastic afternoon for our Former Young Carers Champion, Tara Bragg, and Head of Services, Faye Atherton, presenting at the Boing Boing Resilience Forum in Blackpool on Thursday. Raising awareness of young carers, their families and the support that is available to them. Lots of great questions, discussions and even a bit of creativity from […]
Rain didn’t stop play at our Carers Week Garden party – we raised £1,100 to help make a better life for carers!
The inclement weather, didn’t dampen the spirits of visitors to our Carers Week Garden Party on Saturday 16th June at Beaverbrooks House. Many of the stalls and entertainment were moved indoors but the BBQ, very kindly run by Spire Fylde Coast Hospital, was a very welcome port of call at the bottom of the garden, […]
Carers Plan 2018-20 – Download the 2018-20 Carers Action Plan
Carers Plan 2018-20 Click here to Download the Carers Action Plan The plan sets out the cross-government programme of work to support carers over the next 2 years. It is structured around the following themes: services and systems that work for carers employment and financial wellbeing supporting young carers recognising and supporting carers in the […]
Everyone welcome to attend the World Mental Health Day celebrations at the Spanish Hall, Wintergardens on 10th October 11am-4pm
CASH QUEST FOR CARERS £50 CHALLENGE STARTS ON MONDAY 12 JUNE – ENTER YOUR TEAM TODAY!!
Cash Quest for Carers is back for 2017! Your task is to turn a donated £50 into as much as you can in 4 months? Use all your entrepreneurial skills to develop and deliver innovative and fun ways to raise as much money as you can by 30th September. Teams of any size from local […]
Lytham Festival Secures Five Charity Partners – Blackpool Carers Centre is one of them!
The North West’s biggest live music festival is welcoming five charity partners for 2017. Lytham Festival hopes to attract around 100,000 people to Lancashire’s Fylde coast for the seven-day event taking place from Monday July 31 to Sunday August 6. And rather than work with just one charity partner, festival organisers have decided to work […]
Crowden coins it in for carers’ Charity
Long before most airlines cottoned onto the idea of collecting loose change for charities on flights back home Blackpool motor dealer Crowden Collins founded Change for Charity – which did just that. The charity coined it in to help others by turning all those unwanted Spanish pesetas, Italian lira, German marks, Greek drachma and more […]
