News

We were delighted to welcome Carers Centre Patron, Caroline Lucas MP to our Carers Week online coffee morning on Friday 12th June. As a passionate supporter of carers, Caroline outlined her recent parliamentary advocacy and welcomed questions from carers in attendance and those who had sent questions in to us.

Hello and Welcome to the start of Carers Week 2020 and of the Carers Festival online for Brighton and Hove. This years Carers Week theme is Making Caring Visible. Join us this week as we shine a light on the amazing unpaid family friend carers in our city.

Hello and the warmest of welcomes to all of you wonderful carers to this our mid season lock down special. While all of our face-to-face and one-to-one meetings  are currently suspended we are still open to support you… In this issue we look forward to Carers Week and all the fantastic things we have coming […]

Carers Reablement’s Top Tips for Carers in Isolation While the Carers Centre Reablement Project has had to stop our volunteers meeting with carers for the time being. We would like to encourage you to find time for yourselves each day, whether that is a short walk, a boogie in the kitchen, reading that book you […]

Hello and the warmest of welcomes to your Carers News for Spring 2020. Under normal circumstances we would be bringing you information about all of the wonderful upcoming activities we have on offer, but unfortunately due to the coronavirus pandemic we have had to suspend all in person activities and meetings. So this edition is […]

Update 17th June 2020 – In line with Government guidance around Coronavirus (COVID-19), all Carers Centre in-person group activities and 1:1 sessions remain suspended until further notice. Our Carers Hub support line remains open and we invite carers to contact us about our online coffee morning peer support groups

February is LGBT+ History Month At The Carers Centre we are committed to supporting and representing those carers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+). LGBTQ+ History Month takes place every year in February and is an opportunity to provide education and insight into the issues that LGBTQ+ people face.

In this issue we catch up with all the goings on from the end of 2019 including Carers Rights Day.

A big thank you to all carers and stakeholders for your support in 2019. We look forward to working with even more amazing unpaid family/friend carers in 2020. Have a wonderful holiday period; from all staff and volunteers at The Carers Centre for Brighton & Hove

We were delighted to hear that Create Arts won this year’s ‘Children and Young People Now – Young Carers Award’. Create have branched out from their London base to do some great partnership work with The Carers Centre for Brighton and Hove over the last 2 years. We can vouch for their dedication and innovation! […]