This week is Carers Week. Thank you to all of the carers in the U.K. and all over the world. Please reach out to people and organisations when you need some help and support too. #CarersWeek #CarersWeek2024 #Carers

It's #CarersWeek! A national awareness week sharing and celebrating all that unpaid carers do. This year's theme is Putting Carers on the Map. We encourage you to join the celebrations and raise awareness of caring by sharing our posts and talk to those around you about caring

We had a fantastic afternoon at the I CARE exhibition in the Grainger Market to celebrate #CarersWeek and raising awareness of unpaid carers

We're all set up at Saltwell Park celebrating #CarersWeek! If you're in Gateshead come and join us. We're here until 2:30pm

And that's a wrap! Thank you ever so much to everyone who came along today to support unpaid carers in Gateshead! 💚💙 We'll be back next year to do it all again! #CarersWeek #carersweek2024

A big thank you to the Gateshead Parent Carer Forum for inviting us along to celebrate Carers Week with them at their Carer's Pamper Day event in the Metrocentre Community Hub 💅💚💙 #CarersWeek

🎉 We've been sending our lucky winners their prizes from our fundraising stalls at last week's Gateshead Carers Gala! A special congratulations to Amy, Sophie and Brenda for winning our "guess the name" competitions! 📷 Amy and Sonny the tiger

✅Cuppas ✅Cakes ✅Conversations ✅Carers We've got all the makings of a good Carer Café session. Join us on Wednesday 26th June from 9:30 - 1:30 for a cuppa and a catch-up with local carers from across Gateshead. gatesheadcarers.com/Event/carer-ca…

We're excited to be starting work to develop a new website for Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW). 💬We need to hear from as many people as possible, to make sure the website does what the people we support, treat, and work with need... (1/4)

It takes on average two years for someone to identify as a carer. Many people see caring as a duty to family life and so often miss out on vital support. Learn more about being a carer on our website: gatesheadcarers.com/what-is-a-carer

📅 Today (Monday 1 July) marks the start of Co-Production Week, a celebration of co-production and its aim to improve our social care services through Community Led Support. In Gateshead, any adult who would like to be part of co-production can to join the People's Voice group.

It’s #GeneralElection Day. There are 7 million #UnpaidCarers in the UK, so carers’ votes really can make a difference. Don’t forget to take your photo ID to the polling station so you’re able to vote. Find out everything you need to know to vote: bit.ly/3Xu0ymg

Thank you Ed Davey for raising that thousands of unpaid carers are having to repay very substantial Carer’s Allowance overpayments to the Department for Work and Pensions at the first #PMQs today. Carers, who need and deserve better, urgently need to see reform of Carer’s Allowance.

Cuppas, Cakes, Conversations, Cheerful and Canny are all words used to describe our Carer Café We invite all carers to pop in on Wednesday for our Carer Café at Gateshead Carers! 🏠 Gateshead Carers, NE8 4DY 📅 Wednesday 31st July 2024 🕘 9:30am - 1:30pm gatesheadcarers.com/Event/carer-ca…

Wishing all young adult carers the best of luck on A-Level Results Day! Balancing studies with caring responsibilities is an incredible feat. Your resilience and dedication is an inspiration to us all Remember, you've already accomplished so much. Here's to your future success!

Today we’re calling on Keir Starmer UK Prime Minister to make support for those providing unpaid care one of his Government’s top priorities. Thank you, Margaret Ashmead, for sharing your story and standing with us. Read our full open letter here: carersuk.org/news-and-campa…