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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
Santa Smurf visits our volunteers!
Our volunteers have worked so hard this year to get in a position where they are able to go and meet kinship carers and give them one to one support. We wanted to give them a big thank you, so … 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
“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
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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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A Valentine’s Day event with a difference
February 14th was a day to remember in Newcastle. Along with the flowers, cards and chocolates in circulation for Valentine’s Day, the love and commitment shown by kinship carers was celebrated at the launch of the Relative Experience Project. Almost … Continue reading
Posted in Big Lottery Fund, Grandparents, kinship carers, North East England, Parenting, Silver Dreams, Volunteers
Tagged aunts, grandparents raising grandchildren, great-grandparents, Newcastle, North Tyneside, parenting support, relatives raising children, support with raising a relative's child, uncles, volunteering opportunities
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Relative Experience Project takes off!
If you need help, who do you turn to? I don’t mean help with the little day to day things but the big problems that can happen, the things that really cause you to worry. Most of us turn to … Continue reading
Posted in Big Lottery Fund, Grandparents, kinship carers, North East England, Parenting, Silver Dreams, Volunteers
Tagged aunts, grandparents, grandparents raising grandchildren, kinship, kinship care, kinship carers, Newcastle, North Tyneside, 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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