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Speaking out at a special event
Come and join the Relative Experience team at a special FREE event for kinship carers from across the North East on Wednesday 11 February. Speaking Out for Kinship Care will run from 9:45amto 3.00pm at the Trinity Centre in Middlesbrough. … Continue reading
Scale up starts to spread
We’ve had a hectic few months at the project, expanding our team and getting set up to extend Relative Experience far and wide across the North East. Kim and Vicky remain with the scale up project but sadly Project Worker … Continue reading
Face to face with our funders
As the Relative Experience Project moves into the next exciting phase we were pleased to be able to welcome Danny Silverstone, Big Lottery Fund Committee Member, who was part of the Board that agreed our scale up funding. Danny came … Continue reading
Hitting the headlines
Following the recent good news that the Relative Experience project will be funded for a further three years, BBC Radio Newcastle did a week-long feature on the issues faced by kinship carers cumulating in a live phone-in show which gave … Continue reading
Speaking out for prisoners’ families
A recent event organised by NEPACS – North Eastern Prison After Care Society – gave the Relative Experience Project a chance to highlight the issues kinship carers face when they step in to care for children whose parents are imprisoned. … Continue reading
Summer fun with Relative Experience
While getting to know kinship carers and the children they care for, we have discovered that the vast majority have identified that they want to meet and socialise with other families in similar circumstances. Over the summer, the workers at … Continue reading
Volunteers ready to support kinship carers
Things are really picking up pace at the Relative Experience Project now that the final group of volunteers have finished their training course. The training has been a great success and the volunteers who have completed the course have found … Continue reading
Posted in Big Lottery Fund, Grandparents, kinship carers, North East England, Parenting, Silver Dreams, Volunteers
Tagged befriending, grandparents, grandparents raising grandchildren, kinship carers, Newcastle, North Tyneside, raising a grandchild, raising a relative's child, relatives raising children, volunteering opportunities
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“You think you know it all but you don’t”
“The whole training thing has been brilliant,” said Pauline. “I haven’t done anything like this before.” Pauline is 59 and has been a kinship carer for three and a half years to her five-year-old grandson. She is one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Big Lottery Fund, Grandparents, kinship carers, North East England, Parenting, Silver Dreams, Volunteers
Tagged befriending, grandparents, grandparents raising grandchildren, kinship, kinship care, kinship carers, raising a grandchild, raising a relative's child, volunteering opportunities
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“It wasn’t like being back at school at all”
I’m going to introduce you to Brenda. Brenda, who is 61, has been married to Maurice for 43 years (congrats!) and together they have been raising their 12-year-old grandson and 10-year-old granddaughter, who both have Autistic Spectrum Disorders, for the … Continue reading
Posted in Big Lottery Fund, Grandparents, kinship carers, North East England, Parenting, Silver Dreams, Volunteers
Tagged aunts, befriending, grandparents, grandparents raising grandchildren, great-grandparents, kinship care, kinship carers, Newcastle, North Tyneside, parenting support, raising a grandchild, raising a relative's child, relatives raising children, support with raising a relative's child, uncles, volunteering opportunities
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Ready, steady, go!
Volunteers at the Relative Experience Project celebrated completing the first training course – and are raring to go! The volunteers will support grandparents and other family members in the Newcastle and North Tyneside area who have stepped in to raise … Continue reading
Posted in Big Lottery Fund, Grandparents, kinship carers, North East England, Parenting, Silver Dreams, Volunteers
Tagged aunts, grandparents, grandparents raising grandchildren, great-grandparents, kinship carers, Newcastle, North Tyneside, parenting support, raising a grandchild, raising a relative's child, volunteering opportunities
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