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Halifax bring Christmas cheer to young carers

A big thank you to Halifax Building Society, Peterborough and Stamford branches, who made Caring Together their charity of the year. We were pleased to collect three large crates worth of delicious chocolate selection boxes for our young carers last week. If you are an organisation and fancy putting us forward to be charity of […]

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Your gift can make a difference to a young carer this Christmas

We are delighted to announce Harris & Hoole Café at Tesco Huntingdon on Abbots Ripton Road, have kindly set up a Christmas giving tree to collect donated items for our young carers to make their own Christmas hampers. There are suggested gift ideas on signs in the café that people can then buy and drop […]

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Shannon’s story

I care for my dad, his name is Wayne. He has a messed up knee where he has pins and needles holding it together. He also has seven discs out of place in his back, a blood clot in his neck causing his memory problems.

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Bumper Batch of Christmas Hampers Delivered to Families of Young Carers

  More than 40 festive hampers were this week delivered to families of young carers in the Huntingdon area supported by Carers Trust Cambridgeshire. This is more than three times the number of hampers delivered last year – thanks to the support of DHL Logistics who collected donations for the hampers from their kind-hearted colleagues, […]

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Christmas Message from our Chair

“Happy Christmas, Ho Ho” these words are currently ringing out in shops , in the street, on the TV everywhere. I too wish you a Merry Christmas, but for thousands of carers Christmas may not be such a happy occasion. Often at this time of year friends/family, workers in the care industry have their own […]

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Christmas card design competiton

We were inundated with entries for our 2016 Christmas card competition. We invited young people, involved in our Young Carers and Peterborough Siblings projects, to design their own Christmas card. It was a hard decision for our judges to pick the winning designs. Two winning entries went on to be created as part of our […]

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