A big thank you to all young carers who were involved in Young Carers Awareness Day. A special thank you to Callum and Alfie for sharing their story with the Craven Herald, The Yorkshire Post, The Keighley News and BBC Look North.
Picture by Simon Hulme
Anne Smyth has recently retired from the Carers’ Resource and young carers showed their appreciation by helping to create a beautiful retirement gift! 
Our young carer’s team have been busy delivering hampers kindly donated by the Department of Work and Pensions. Around 90 hampers were donated for our young carer’s and their families to enjoy over the festive period. Here, young carer Emily shows her thanks to us on Facebook . Emily – you’re AWESOME!
The Budz had lots of fun making Pudsey themed treats. Children in Need
is a truly awesome charity which helps us to support young carers through their grants. Thanks to them and to everyone who donated on the night making it possible!
Congratulations to Craven Young Carer Poppy Neely! She has won the Carers’ Trust Christmas card competition. 
Christmas cards are Awesome!
Thanks to all of you and to 
everyone who supports us – as you can see we have had an awesome year!
Craven Young Carers had great fun making K’Nex creations. Thank you for supporting young carers.
http://www.knex.co.uk/
For the Rotary Club of Harrogate Brigantes swung into action and raised £2,250 at the event for our Harrogate youth club BUDZ.
Guy Wilson (centre), President of Rotary Club of Harrogate Brigantes, is pictured presenting the generous donation to Young Carer Worker Laura Frith (left) and Anne Wells (right), our Fundraising Co-ordinator, with some delighted young carers who attend BUDZ with their personalised bears from Teddy Ranch.
The funds will go towards ensuring on-going activities for the group – a huge thank you to all who supported the event.
European Featherweight boxing champion Josh ‘The Warrior’ Warrington popped into our last boxing session to meet our Young Carers. Josh used to be a young carer himself, caring for his brother and sister. He spoke to us about how the skills he learnt caring has helped him become a champion boxer. Thanks Josh, you’re awesome!
A big thank you to the Haworth and Worth Valley Rotary Club for choosing Craven Young Carers as the President’s Charity of the year. 
Young Carers had fun and learned some new skills in the kitchen.
A big thank you to Systagenix in Gargrave for providing £150 for young carers to enjoy a delicious meal at Bollywood Cottage.
Craven Young Carers had a fun-filled day at Hesketh Farm Park! A very big thank you to Chris and Sue for supporting young carers.
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Our Young carers & young adult carers in Harrogate got to take to the punch bags to relieve some stress with local ex professional Rob Smith. Rob runs H Hour Boxing gym in Harrogate and is offering boxing sessions for our young carers over the summer holidays. The next session will be Wednesday 13th August, for more info ring 500555 and ask for the young carer team. Thanks to everyone who came to the first session, you’re awesome!
Congratulations to Craven Young Carer Katie who was awarded with the title of best cadet in her unit. Well Done.
Harrogate and Craven Young Carers had a great time and learned how to make bread. A big thank you to Bettys for all their support.
Our young adult carers put together this awesome video promoting our Young Adult Carer project. It was filmed at our youth club Utime @ The Pit, and only took a few days for it to be completed. The video was part of a bid we are making to the Carnegie Trust. Thanks to everyone who got involved, you’re awesome!
The full video can be viewed HERE
Thank you George and Joseph for being part of the parade for the Knaresborough Bed Race. You carried heavy buckets for us and raised lots of funds for Young Carers. You wore your Young Carer T-shirts with pride. Thank you 🙂
Carers’ Trust need your opinions – click here to complete a quick survey – should take less than 10 minutes and you could be the lucky winner of vouchers worth from £10 to £50. They want to hear from young carers from all over the country. Thanks!
Great time bowling at Matrix in Skipton with Natalie, Susan and Craven Young Carers
Massive thanks to everyone who came for tea and cupcakes in aid of Carers’ Resource – Time out for Tea!
8 – 14 June is Carers Week so get everyone talking about carers and especially young carers
. Ask to do an assembly at school or hold a bake sale maybe?
Carers Trust have developed an online game to explain to people what life is like as a young adult carer, trying to juggle all the demands of life. You have to keep all the plates spinning – good luck! Click to play Life in a Spin
Young carers in the Harrogate Informer . Good luck to all our young carers going through exams at the moment.
Craven young carers had a great time at youth group a few weeks ago. They played the usual party games of Pass the Parcel, Who am I, and eating chocolate with a knife and fork, and of course, they decorated cupcakes.
What’s the celebration you say?? Well it’s the Carers’ Resource 20th Anniversary!! So happy Birthday TCR, let the celebrations continue.
Massive thanks to British Airways, Comic Relief and Carers Trust who have awarded us some ‘Flying Start‘ money to support our ongoing work with young carers.
We had an Italian themed Budz week recently to celebrate one of our volunteers, Mikey. Mikey is visiting England for a short time and will soon be heading back to his homeland of Italy. To thank him for all his efforts we cooked delicious pasta with garlic, basil, olive oil & tomatoes – the colours of the Italian flag. We also decorated the famous ‘boot’ of Italy in VERY stylish, crafty ways, and learnt lots about the country.
Hettie Flynn our Young Adult Carer worker and her brother Joe gave up their time on Sunday the 10th May to run The Leeds half marathon. They ran an impressive 13.1 miles to raise money for our Young Carers in Harrogate and Craven! They raised a total of £280.00 and donations are still coming in! We are so proud of their efforts and that is why they are both totally AWESOME!!!
Our Young Adult Carer Sophie Wilson went on local radio station Stray FM in a bid to raise awareness of young adult carers and our project to support them aimed exclusively for 16-25 year olds. Sophie did a great job, and was bursting with pride once she heard herself played out live on air!
