A massive thank you to the The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland for awarding us funding to extend the delivery of our therapeutic activities that support adoption and fostering in Scotland!
Full details can be found here 👉👉👉scottishadoption.org/news/lotteryfu…

Foster Care Fortnight 2024 is here🎉
Our biggest awareness raising campaign of the year #FCF24 is back until 26 May.
There is still time to join our events and family walk on 19 May.
All our events are free to attend-click the link to find out more. bit.ly/3UjGaRu

As part of The Fostering Network's annual Foster Care Fortnight campaign, we will be hosting a free virtual information session for anyone thinking about fostering.

Join us on the 23rd of May. Full details 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/890247934537…

One week to go until Foster Care Fortnight⏰
Running from Monday 13 May-Sunday 26 May 2024, our theme this year is #FosteringMoments .
Join us at one of our foster walks or online events.
All our events are free to attend – click the link to find out more. bit.ly/3UjGaRu

On Tuesday we had a great in-person training day with the whole team centred on the 'United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child'. It was great to have everyone together and to focus on such an important topic!

Applications are OPEN! We are looking for passionate young people (ages 16-21) to join our Young Peoples Advisory Board.

If you have experience of foster care or are the child of a foster carer, we want to hear from you!
Email Zoe for an info pack ([email protected])

Thanks to Scotland's Adoption Register for a great event on Monday. We are looking forward to more events later in the year as well!

A big shout-out to Stephanie Land who is running the Edinburgh Half Marathon in May and raising funds for Scottish Adoption and Fostering! Her fundraising link is below for anyone who would like to sponsor her.

Would you be able to spare two minutes to help one of our Young Ambassadors with their HND Sports Coaching and Development Research project?

If you or your child has experience of the care system would you be able to complete this short survey for them: forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

Our friends at LGBT Health and Wellbeing are hosting this great event next week for LGBT parents. Full details below and anyone is welcome to attend!

facebook.com/events/1092748…

We want to say a massive thank you to Garfield Weston Foundation for recently providing us with a grant that will help us continue to undertake our therapy centre work. This will benefit a lot of families!

Find our more about our therapy centre here: scottishadoption.org/therapy-centre/

Our next fostering information session is on Thursday April 25th. Free to attend and a great chance to find out more about the benefits of fostering. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/867410256427…

📧If you didn't receive a copy of our quarterly newsletter and would like a copy, let us know! 📧

(Unfortunately our emails occasionally fall into spam folders so worth double checking here as well)

Powerful stories shared at the Corra Foundation supporting birth parent’s celebration event today. Thanks to Sarah and Lynsey from Scottish Adoption & Fostering and Chris from Scottish Book Trust for representing the stories of our Bluebird Project parents. ❤️

Take a look below for more information about the first Exchange Day of the year organized by the Scotland's Adoption Register. We are looking forward to being involved again!

It's important to know that if you’re LGBTQ+ in the UK you can adopt or foster.

On Thursday we are run a free virtual information session on adoption for members of the LGBTQ+ community 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/835985403847…

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Adoption & Fostering Week returns today! An annual campaign run by the brilliant @newfamilysocial.

Keep your eyes peeled for more information from us about how we support LGBTQ+ families on their journey to adoption and fostering 🏳️‍🌈

Tomorrow you will find some of our team at the Hive LGBT+ Centre in Kirkcaldy. We are hosting a drop-in session 12-3pm for anyone interested in finding out more about adoption or fostering. All welcome and full details below!

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parent Club Scotland have shared some online safety tips for parents and carers, on keeping children and young people safe using mobile devices or when using the internet. 📱

For more information, follow the link below:
parentclub.scot/topics/online-…

#Online #Safety #Families

As part of LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Awareness Information Week, we will be hosting a free virtual information session on becoming a foster carer.

Anyone is welcome to join, we would love to chat with you. Sign-up here and full details below👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtq-foster…