Thanks to the support of the Rank foundation we have been able to appoint Zamzam Yusuf as a full time action research officer to look at the needs of African, Afro Caribbean, Asian and East European communities across our city and county.
How our Promise to Care model works to create opportunities for businesses to support care experienced young people
Covid 19 has shone a cruel light on the many issues facing our city and county, but it has also shown that there is spirit and a willingness for people to work together. It might be a cliché, but our strongest asset is our people.
We have been delighted to work with Decentered media on their “A germs journey project”
Since Lockdown began in March 2020 it quickly became obvious that having internet access and the knowledge and means to use it were essential, to ensure families, children and young people were not left behind
An insight into the hard work our Community Development Team have been up to in the first quarter of 2021
Staff from the Community Development and YES Project team celebrated Vaisakhi
The Seventh webinar of our #BBBYouthWelfare series, took place on Wednesday 21st April 2021 and focussed on employment opportunities for young people.
Free Webinar 11th May 2021 1300 to 1400
Using a model of participation and co-production with our care experienced young people, is driving the direction we are going in together.
Students return to school after another period of learning at home
Since the start of the new year, the YES Project has been working hard to support NEET Young People
Care experienced young people being empowered by the feedback their book receiving
The YES Project are tapping into the knowledge and expertise of our business members to develop the project.
Care Leavers creating anti-bullying resources for looked after children, as part of our VRN project, Free From Violence.
We have been reflecting on our practice and learning through the lockdown and developed in partnership with a wide range of our stakeholders our “Power to Change Approach” to working with communities and young people
Nylacast Awarded Leicestershire Cares Golden Heart Awards
We were delighted to see Kieran’s recent article on the care review translated into Welsh by the wonderful ExChange Wales
We were delighted to host the Rt Hon Priti Patel, the Home Secretary at our office last Thursday.
News Article from Ford & Slater - Ford & Slater have been working alongside Leicestershire Cares since 2008.
Live speakers inform students that apprenticeships can be a rich and rewarding career pathway
Year 12 & 13 students at Beauchamp College receive a mock interview and valuable feedback from local employers through the interview technique project
YES Project will be uploading monthly job vacancies for our participants, so keep an eye out!
The Children of Looked After Children - A new book by Dr Louise Roberts
Morningside staff inform students about apprenticeships
Our young people worked together to support New Parks Community Hub by planting flowers and bedding plants.
The UP-Project Case Study: SG joined the UP-Project in November 2020 after being referred by Leicester Youth and Justice.
Spring Champions Lunch - Last Thursday we held our first Champions Lunch event of the year.
Covid-19, like an X-Ray, has revealed the ways in which systems and institutions exclude people, and those people hurt the most. I’ll suggest ways one can build back better by listening to those who have been left out.
How can we #BuildBackBetter employment for young people post-Covid 19?
Pathways to HE delivered another session for our NEET Young People on the different routes into Higher Education.
Together with our young people, business and community partners we celebrated and recognised International Women`s Day 2021.
In our most recent live careers webinar, we were joined by 2 speakers from the law firm, Knights plc.
Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay with us! Join us celebrating women's achievements, calling for gender equality and visioning a future where we #ChooseToChallenge.
Leicestershire Cares is running a competition for secondary students in celebration of Careers Week 2021
Read and download our Taking Hold of Our Heritage book created by care experienced young people
Because these things matter to us all, everyone needs to complete the census. Do not worry, your information is protected by law. That means government officials dealing with payments or services you receive cannot see it.
The Community in Action Podcast brings stories and narratives of our diverse communities in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
The Community Development team gets creative and launches the ‘Bags of Hope’ Appeal for children from all our local communities.
Leicestershire Cares launched a new book, Taking Hold of Our Heritage, created by care experienced young people to celebrate #CareDay21
Kieran attended the virtual farewell speech by Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield.
This book has been created by care experienced young people to tell the stories of their lives. We have a limited number of books to give away
Don't miss the third webinar in our series of Careers talks for secondary schools on Thursday 25th February, 11am -12
The pandemic has caused unemployment rates to rise. Can more investment in a greener economy help us create jobs and save the planet at the same time?
The YES Project have partnered with Pathways to provide advice and guidance on accessing further and higher education to NEET young people
Celebrate Care Day to raise awareness of Children in Care and those with Care Experience, on 19 February, 1pm
We are looking forward to our sixth #BBBYouthWelfare on Tuesday 2nd March 2021 1230 to 1330 which will focus on The Digital Divide: Why we need to support young people now.
Kieran has written an article setting out his thoughts on the upcoming care review and how open minds and a willingness to work in creative and agile partnerships could be key.
We’re running a new series of live Speedy Speaker Careers Webinars for schools and young people
Our YES Project Development Officer, Simran, reviewed this must-read book for those wanting to learn more about the climate crisis and climate justice.
For our latest #BBBYouth Welfare webinar we tackled the issue of county lines.
We were delighted to share our expertise on supporting care leavers into employment at an event with Children and Families Minister, Vicky Ford MP
Leicestershire Cares February 2021 newsletter
Kieran our CEO, has just reviewed this must read book on poverty.
With the start of the new year once more seeing the closure of schools, the education team are working creatively to find new ways that our business volunteers can support students who are learning from home.
Businesses and project participants stepped up in between lockdowns to help support a charity which provides wrapped gifts to over 4000 local children.
During school closures we are delivering a series of speaker webinars to support our partner schools and maintain their links with our member businesses.
Our Business members and partners get creative to support local communities affected by Covid-19
Tackling bullying of looked after children in schools, setting up a mentoring programme for ceyp and succeeding in work placement
Last term, primary school children in Leicester used their maths skills to compete in a fun Number Partners maths challenge. We’re very pleased to announce that Queensmead Primary Academy won the challenge.
The participants have worked extremely hard over the last seven months despite covid-19 to create an animation.
We felt this poem by 22 year old Amanda Gorman recited at Joe Biden’s inauguration offered a vision of everything that is positive about our world and the creativity that comes from our young people.
Improved staff motivation and productivity and an overall sense of employee wellbeing are just a few of the things that employers have noticed when supporting their staff to volunteer.
Despite Covid-19 and interruption to schooling, just over 700 students in Leicester and Leicestershire schools have received a mock interview from a local business volunteer this academic year.
Over the past few years we have published a number of brief articles that we feel might be useful to those overseeing the review.
A new and exciting action research project, which seeks to learn from the rich cultural diversity of Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.
We're pleased to see a commitment to an ambitious review focused on the experiences of those who are and have been in care
The WIRE Project continues to support ex-offenders and achieve successful outcomes despite lockdown restrictions.
We are excited to launch our new English and Maths provision on the YES Project.
The fifth webinar of the #BBBYouthWelfare series
Leicestershire Cares investigation into care experienced young people’s heritage is being turned into a book.
Download our Christmas Wellbeing poster
Over the last few weeks we have been working with the business and community sector to distribute wellbeing bags to people and families in need , who are in danger of being left behind.
Leicestershire Cares’ Taking Hold of Our Heritage project featured in the newsroom run by young people
A podcast about care experienced life by Leicestershire Care young people
A collaborative effort offering support and accommodation to young offenders in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
The Leicestershire Cares environmental group are sharing tips on how you can have an eco-friendly Christmas this year.
Leicestershire Cares December 2020 newsletter
The UP Project continue to offer support to young people who have and continue to experience difficulties due to their offence history.
Leicestershire Cares is shortlisted in the Leaving Care category in the Children & Young People Now Awards 2020
Office Depot and Leicestershire Cares Community Development Team link with charitable organisations to reach people in need throughout Leicester and Leicestershire.
Businesses are still determined to offer volunteer support despite the many difficulties they have faced this year.
Young relatives of Leicestershire Cares staff design the card for our sponsored #Collect4Christmas packages
We were delighted to win the commitment to people development award at the East Midlands Chambers annual awards 2020.
We are excited to announce that we are one of eight charities chosen to be a part of the 2020 Charity Winter Gardens.
Mum to Be Jade described her gratitude to the UP Project and project manager Siobhan explained the Power of Multi Agency Work
This November the Education team sent out a set of fun maths challenges for their Number Partners project.
The third webinar in the series BBB Youth Welfare webinars that we run in partnership with De Montfort university and LLR safeguarding took place on the 12th November 2020.
The YES Project team have been working hard to support NEET young people throughout the pandemic.
The fourth webinar of the #BBBYouthWelfare series is focusing on how young people’s housing arrangements have been impacted by the pandemic and what we can do about it.
We have been reflecting on our learning over the lockdown period and have come up with a simple framework.
The YES Project delivered an online webinar exploring how volunteering can boost employability skills.
We would like to wish all our friends, partners, staff and volunteers a happy and safe Diwali this weekend.
Leicestershire Cares have been delivering a 4-week virtual Employability programme to help prepare individuals for employment.
Do you or your business have old IT equipment? Read on to find out how your old laptops can be revamped and recycled to support disadvantaged groups across the region to develop their digital skills.
Ensuring nobody is left behind during this second lockdown
A review of Leicestershire Cares activities during #NCLW2020
The second webinar in our #BBBYouth Welfare series took place on Wednesday 28th October.
Care experienced young people will identify their own solutions to avoiding violence and create pathways to recovery and a life free from violence.
The third webinar of our BBB Youth Welfare series will discuss the knife crime context for Leicester on the 12th November 1-2pm
During National Care Leavers Week 2020, Casey was interviewed by Rupal Rajani on the Mid Moring show on BBC Radio Leicester about being a care leaver
Working with local businesses to collect and distribute care packages this Christmas to those affected by the Covid pandemic and most in need.
Celebrating the amazing care experienced young people we work alongside throughout Care Leavers Week 26-30 October
Employers’ views of care experienced people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
Participants from the WIRE and Leaving Care Projects have been busy assisting at the Aylestone Meadows site.
Volunteer and make a difference with our remote 'Interview Technique' events
Year 11 Students at Lutterworth High School and the Madani Schools Federation were the first to experience a remote way of receiving a mock interview and valuable feedback from a business volunteer in the community.
Leicestershire Cares will be celebrating the amazing care experienced young people we work alongside throughout Care Leavers Week 26-30 October
Care leaver Casey is interviewed by the BBC about her podcast and why it is a great platform to campaign for care leavers issues
Leicestershire Cares and the homelessness project ‘Making Moves’ have been working hard since the announcement of the lockdown on the 20th March.
Our Champion’s Champion award is presented to Sally Romankiw from Samworth Brothers.
School staff were proud to send us pictures of winners, runners up and highly commended students who took part in our career competition during lockdown
Join our webinar at 1pm on 28th October to discuss how we can create better opportunities for care leavers post-Covid19.
Leicestershire Cares is delighted to recognise Keeley Jeffries as our Education Volunteer of the Year 2019-20
We were delighted to be asked by the cabinet office and DCMS to attend and present our thoughts at the Midlands roundtable leg of this series of national workshops.
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £43,000 by the National Lottery Community Fund.
We were very pleased to see the publication of this report which is very much in line with a lot of our thinking and practice during the pandemic.
The Taking Hold of Our Heritage project takes care experienced young people to a wood carving workshop
We were delighted to be asked to share our learning and experience with the Responsible Business Team at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS).
As part of the YES Project, we’re excited to announce a new 6 week employability scheme starting for young people aged 15 – 24 who are not in education, employment or training.
We have been working in partnership with, De Montfort University, and the Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland Safeguarding Children Partnerships and a wide range of local and national organisations to put together a series of webinars.
We had our very first Champions meeting via Zoom on Wednesday 23rd September
We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the East Midlands Chambers Commitment to people development.
A new survey by the OPCC and VRN exploring what the community feels the priorities are when it comes to community safety.
We are having our first virtual Champions Meeting on the 23rd September.
We are launching a new workshop called ‘Fakeaways’ - making our favourite takeaway foods in a healthier way.
There is a lot of talk in the media about #BuildBackBetter, but what does it mean? What would it look like locally? This webinar will be a chance to hear from Neal Lawson one of its leading architects.
We have been delighted at the coverage our #TogetherWeCare awards have received in the local media.
Leicestershire Cares September 2020 newsletter
This is a great opportunity for local employers to support young people getting into work.
How Leicestershire Cares staff forged the way for Covid Friendly Team Challenge Employee Volunteering
Leicestershire Cares is celebrating the start of the new academic year by publishing its annual education report, highlighting the successes of our projects during 2019-20
A podcast produced by care experienced young people. This episode is about going to university
Rob Allen from Everards delivered an informative webinar on interview skills.
223 community heroes have been recognised through the #TogetherWeCare award
Ellis Di Cataldo from Rock Kitchen Harris delivered a fun and informative webinar on using LinkedIn For Your Job Search to NEET Young People.
Throughout the lockdown we have sought to work in a creative and agile way , adapting our efforts as best we can so nobody is left behind.
The quarantine cooks workshop has come to an end after 10 successful weeks
Young people are welcome to join us for two webinars on interview skills and job searching on LinkedIn
On 30 June, Leicester became the first city in the UK to experience a local lockdown. This rapid assessment builds on the findings of our ‘Life Under Lockdown’ report to explore the impact that the local lockdown is having on vulnerable young people
New article by our CEO Kieran Breen on the issues surrounding modern slavery
Here’s a summary of the good work that goes on through our employee volunteering program
Taking Hold of Our Heritgae presents a creative art competition for care leavers aged 16-25 in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.
To inform our future work on knife crime, we set up an independent survey and sent it out our young people and participants to see what their views were on knife related crime.
Creative collaboration with Rock Kitchen Harris during lockdown
350 business, community , church and political leaders signed a #BuildBackBetter statement.
Leicestershire Cares' UP and WIRE Projects are collaborating with BBC Radio in response to knife crime.
We have the results from our Education Competition we launched in April to June.
Yesterday chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a new scheme to help young people secure jobs.
New report shows many prisoners are released into homelessness
The Domestic Abuse Bill completed its Report Stage and Third Reading on Monday 6th July.
We worked with young people to help them share their views on government plans on unregulated accommodation for children in care and care leavers
A podcast about care experienced life and the criminal justice system by Leicestershire Care young people
Leicestershire Cares reflects on the pros and cons of the 2019-20 financial year
How working together could could help us tackle key issues as we transition out of the pandemic.
As we reflect on the powerful messages coming out of the #BlackLivesMatters movement we are keen to listen to Black voices.
On the Go For Reading Project, it has been uplifting to receive feedback from the schools and volunteers.
A podcast about care experienced life by Leicestershire Care young people, this time exploring housing and accomdation
Leicestershire Cares Pandemic response newsletter
The WIRE and UP Projects have put together a guide and some useful resources to help people disclose cautions and convictions to potential employers.
Helping to Connect the Community via Social Media
Leicestershire Cares and four other charities based in the city and county have been lucky enough to receive a share of £10,000 thanks to the county’s five building societies.
Our Education manager, Helen Treadwell, won Volunteer Manager of the Year, and Leicestershire Cares was highly commended for Charity of the Year.
Over the last few months we have seen an outpouring of goodwill and community based social action. Kieran Breen, CEO of Leicestershire Cares has written more on this subject.
As an organisation and as people we were shocked, sickened and outraged by the vicious killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Children and Young People across our partner schools and projects attended a virtual campus tour of Loughborough University created by the School and College Liaison Team.
For Volunteers Week 2020 we would like to thank all of our business volunteers for the support they have provided to our charity and the community.
A podcast about care experienced life by Leicestershire Care young people, this time exploring housing and accomdation
Many job seekers are feeling worried about how COVID–19 could affect their employment opportunities. There are a few things that they can do, with the help of Leicestershire Cares, to improve their employability.
At Leicestershire Cares, we have been delivering a variety of workshops for our young people during the current pandemic.
We have a full list of all the awardees that were nominated for the #TogetherWeCare award.
All are welcome to join our webinars aimed at VCSE organisations local to Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
Celebrating Foster Care Fortnight 2020
We are delighted to be finalists in two categories: East Midlands Charity of the Year and Volunteer manager of the Year.
Leicestershire Cares publishes finding of rapid participatory assessment of the impact that the lockdown is having on vulnerable young people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, as a charity we have worked hard to stay connected to our participants and young people.
Taking Hold of our Heritage is a project that reframes the negative stigma attached to them.
A podcast about care experienced life by Leicestershire Care young people, this time exploring the new normal.
Leicestershire Cares Pandemic response newsletter
As an organisation we are committed to tackling domestic abuse and we strongly believe in a partnership approach.
Samworth Brother’s deliver egg-citing treat for our young people!
Leicestershire Cares invites chef Sandie Vara – the Spice Guy, to lead a live cookalong for our care leavers.
Across our city and county, we have been working with local government, business and community to ensure isolated and vulnerable people receive practical and emotional support.
We have been working with our business partner Nylacast to get PPE to staff and volunteers working on the frontline.
How one of our businesses is being kind in this global crisis
In this month of reflection and worship , wishing all who follow and worship a safe and happy time.
A podcast about care experienced life by Leicestershire Care young people
Before the lockdown some of our young people on the Homelessness Project attended the Feed your Family for a Fiver workshop; similar sessions have been ran via Zoom with Samworth Brothers.
How Leicestershire Cares is raising awareness of hate crime among our young people and building relationships with the police
Care experienced young people we work with have been speaking with BBC journalists about how they are coping with isolation, including a feature on East Midlands Today
Read how we've been continuing to provide support for individuals with convictions during the Coronavirus crisis
It has been great to visit our Go for Reading partner schools this term and see our committed and enthusiastic business volunteers raising confidence and sharing their love of reading with students in Leicester and Leicestershire.
The UP Project continues to offer holistic support to all current and new participants during the coronavirus pandemic.
Walkers Deli and Sausage donate to Covid-19 support groups
Two care experienced young people, Casey and Diana, talking about issues facing their community
Virtual mock interviews delivered by business volunteers to some of the young people across our projects.
Our CEO Kieran Breen will be on BBC Radio Leicester at 11:15am today to talk about the launch of our #TogetherWeCare awards.
We’re running a competition for primary and secondary school students in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to encourage careers education over the coming weeks.
A new initiative to recognise individuals who have been working hard in their community during Covid-19.
Great things never come from comfort zones. Take yourself out of yours and join our online employability support from: 31st March – 23rd April. We look forward to seeing you then.
Care experienced young people tell their stories of coronavirus lockdown in this video
Leicestershire Cares have been stepping up to the challenge of the pandemic by partnering with the local community and businesses.
Check out our quarterly newsletter, it features the great work our partnerships have been delivering in the past four months and what we have planned for the next quarter.
The homelessness project ‘Making Moves’ have been active in delivering food parcels to our young people across Leicester and Leicestershire.
Amazing commitment from business volunteers in primary schools across Leicester and Leicestershire.
ExChange are giving fifteen lucky individuals the chance to win one of the amazing books featured on their blog.
Our first Champions gathering of the year hits the mark.
The start of 2020 saw our brilliant member volunteers providing students in Leicester and Leicestershire with the tools they need to become employable to businesses.
Leicestershire Cares’ staff share new found knowledge about social pedagogic practice, after 3 days training in the ThemPra’s Diamond Model.
We are working with a wide range partners to support those most in need over the coming weeks.
Please find a list of useful educational resources for families who have children who have to self isolate.
Please find a list of useful organisations to contact if you are in need of food packages or essential support.
Please find an update regarding the planned mental health and wellbeing workshops we have running with BuddhiByM.
A collective mission working toward inproving the Mental Health and Wellbeing of our participants.
Our young people dusted off their boxing gloves and showed off their skills in the Princes Trust Get Started with Boxfit programme.
On Thursday 8th of March at Leicestershire Cares, we had a coffee event and motivational speaker to celebrate International Women’s Day.
On Tuesday 10th of March we will be holding our Champions Lunch event, for our business members.
Last week Leicestershire Cares attended the YES Stakeholder Event – #ReRoutingFutures and shared all the wonderful work we do as a YES delivery partner.
Last Friday, the Together Project organised an event for VCSE sector organisations to access business advice and skills share support to deliver their services more effectively.
Check out our quarterly newsletter, it features the great work our partnerships have been delivering in the past four months and what we have planned for the next quarter.
Care experienced young people experience Parliament beyond Westminster
As part of Care Day 2020, Leicestershire Cares’ young people took to social media to speak out about how they would like the care system to be, as well as what sets them apart from ‘normal’ young people.
Care experienced young people host a Twitter Q&A
Our Head of Children and Young People reflects on the findings of the Scottish Care Review and the impact a similar review in England could have for children in care
The annual international celebration of the Care Experienced community taking place on Friday 21 February.
We are currently recruiting for a Development Officer for our Community Development Team.
Leicestershire Cares' WIRE and UP Project staff and participants, came together to meet with the Home office and PCC.
Leicestershire Cares is delighted to welcome DNV GL as its newest business member.
We are having our first Champions Lunch for the new year on Tuesday the 10th March 2020.
We have number of Interview Technique events coming up for 2020.
Leicestershire Cares' work with ex-offenders was recognised at a special event staged by Leicestershire’s Police & Crime Commissioner, Lord Willy Bach.
Young people attended a World of Work Tour at Lilu Restaurant and learnt all about the catering and hospitality Industry.
Leicestershire Cares invites you to the launch of The Together Project – The National Lottery Community Funded initiative enabling VCSE sector organisations to access business advice and skills share support.
Leicestershire Cares has been working with the Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership to develop a new toolkit for employers to support local skills development. It will be launched at a business breakfast event on the 5 March.
Our CYP team recently took some time out to reflect on how we can further embed participatory and co-production approaches into our work with young people.
A new report discovers a disconnect between young people's career aspirations and jobs in the UK.
Check out an article that our CEO, Kieran Breen has written on wealth creation.
We are delighted that Leicestershire Cares – WIRE Project has been shortlisted for the Value for Money award at the PCC's Safer Community Celebration award.
Rupert Matthews, Conservative Prospective Candiate for Police & Crime Commissioner for Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland recently visited our office.
Leicestershire Cares has been featured once again in an article on the Exceptionals blog. It explains the UP Project's successes to date and the importance of having a project focused in rehabilitating young offenders to reduce reoffending.
Earlier this year, two of our team members from Leicestershire Cares participated in a seminar aimed at encouraging local employees to consider giving emplyment opportunities to ex-offenders.
For our annual Festive Team Challenge, as a team we went carol singing at Age UK on Monday the 16th December.
Leicestershire Cares are thrilled to announce this year’s successful Collect 4 Christmas campaign received donations in the region of £30,000 from local business members.
Read more on how Leicestershire Cares has been connecting businesses and communities to tackle poverty and exclusion locally.
The Freedom Club at the Centre Project in Leicester is a safe place for unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugees to adjust, acclimatise and then thrive into their new life. So how can business benefit from supporting them?
Leicestershire Cares continues to work with schools to provide opportunities for students to have meaningful encounters with our member business volunteers.
With a full team in house, we have been delivering and planning a range of activities and workshops to continue our great work with NEET young people.
We were delighted to sponsor selection boxes for children at Home4Good’s annual Christmas party.
Yesterday, Joules delivered a training session at Leicestershire Cares on 'what drives behaviours?'
Recently, a few of our staff and young people took a visit to Beaumanor Hall for a fun day of activities.
Anthony, a WIRE Project participant has had a successful two week work placement with the parks team and is eager to work another two weeks!
Leicestershire Cares wins funding to run care experience heritage project
Nelsons Law help revamp games room at Highfields Adventure Playground.
Our 2019 Festive Challenges Campaign has started, check out the article to read more.
Kieran Breen, our CEO will be facilitating two workshops at an upcoming conference on the 28th November at DMU aimed at social services staff working with young people.
Read about all the great work our partnerships have been delivering and what we have planned in the next quarter.
Keeley Jefferies from TT Electronics shares her experience of giving back to the school she once attended through Leicestershire Cares.
The Community Development Team have many updates as we approach the Christmas period, they have various festive challenges and the Collect 4 Christmas 2019 which will support vulnerable people affected by homelessness.
We are delighted to be co hosting a breakfast seminar with East Midlands Chambers on 20th November on CSR at Gateley’s city centre office.
The Promise to Care was launched on 31 October to a packed audience, including the Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire, local businesses and care experienced young people.
At our Champions Lunch on the 30th October, we were able to award Michelle Newman from Knights plc with the Champion’s Champion award.
On Wednesday the 30th of October 2019 at our Champions Lunch, we were able to present two Golden Heart awards.
Leicestershire Cares partners with Haymarket Sexual Health Clinic to raise awareness of importance of sexual health amongst young women living in hostels.
We are happy to announce that we received an award for our support to Zinthiya Trust.
New local business pledge to support looked after children and care leavers into independence.
On Wednesday 30th of October, Leicestershire Cares will be attending the PCC Breakfast event in Leicester to encourage businesses to support employment for ex-offenders.
At Leicestershire Cares on Wednesday the 30th of October we have our Champions Lunch.
The charity jointly sponsored the printing and launch of the book, published by Leicestershire Virtual School, alongside business member Checkprint
Local vehicle management company becomes newest business member of Leicestershire Cares.
Our CEO Kieran Breen has written a book review on How Change Happens.
Check out the article to find out more about this new opportunity to share your thoughts about the care system as a care experienced person.
The YES Project, which has supported over 400 NEET young people has received continuation funding for a further two years.
Our Education team were delighted to win the East Midlands Chamber Leicestershire Education and Business Partnership Award 2019 at the Chamber's annual awards ceremony on Friday 20th September.
Helping businesses in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland support looked after children and care leavers into employment.
Our whole team took time out of our busy schedules last Thursday to spend time with Lyn Warren from Joules to learn more about diversity , dignity and inclusion in the workplace.
On the 3rd of September volunteers from engineering firm Terex Pegson based in Coalville spent a day supporting a local day centre called Hope House, based in Griffydam.
Check out what we have been up to from our latest Quarterly Newsletter.
Leicestershire Cares and the Freedom club take fourteen unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people to the theme park and zoo, Drayton Manor.
On Thursday 5th September cyclists from firms across the city and county came together to participate in the Knights cycling sportive.
A key focus of our education work last academic year was to increase our engagement with special schools and improve support for vulnerable and disadvantaged students.
Last academic year, our business partners supported over 2,000 secondary school students to develop their employability skills.
Last academic year, our business partners supported 360 primary school pupils to improve their maths skills through Number Partners.
Through the support of our business volunteers, the Go For Reading Project has been able to impact the lives of many young people to help build their confidence in reading.
This past year we have delivered extensive work in schools through the Interview Technique project with the support of our business volunteers.
Leicestershire Cares’ young people take part in Learning and Work Institute focus group to explore future pathways to employment and training for care leavers.
Earlier this month, the University’s Career Development Service turned off their computers, picked up their paintbrushes and swapped their day jobs to spend the day supporting local residents as part of a staff volunteering initiative.
Our new Together Project was featured in the Leicester Mercury, please read full article here.
Our CEO Kieran Breen, has written an article for vulnerability 360 on why working with young people in an "agile and adaptive manner" is important for their development.
Leicestershire Cares has a positive meeting with the Care Leaver Covenant
2019 Stability Index shows the journey to adulthood for young people in care is even harder than before, as around 80% are more likely to experience two or more changes of home within a year.
Only one month to go until the Charity Cycling Sportive which Knights are organising to fundraise for Leicestershire Cares. Get involved or sponsor our team of young people!
This year our business volunteers supported 6,442 young people in 67 schools! We now have dates for our education activities next year.
As part of Voices, we took a group of young people to see the celebrated poet, writer and performer who was in care himself when he was young.
Check out what the YES Project has been up to and what we have accomplished this past year.
On Friday the 14th of June, Leicestershire Cares coordinated our very first Careers Day at Ellesmere College.
The Cycling Sportive has been rescheduled to Thursday the 5th of September.
On Friday the 21st of June, The City Retreat hosted an event in honour of Jox Cox and the legacy she left behind.
Check out this report on how funding charities in prisons can be effective and beneficial.
During the month of May, Nylacast were able to raise much needed funds for Leicestershire Cares whilst also raising awareness of mental health and wellbeing with their staff.
Join us on Friday the 21st of June for the Great Get Together as we attempt to support what Joanne Cox stood for in the hope of bringing communities together.
Check out what some of business volunteers and young people got up to at A Place to Grow during Leicestershire Cares week.
A student from Beaumont Leys School attended Leicestershire Cares’ Annual Celebration Event at Winstanley House to say thank you to all the volunteers who have taken part in our Interview Technique project this year.
Happy Eid Mubarak to all our staff, family, friends and everyone who works with us.
This year, our Volunteer of the Year Emily Quinton was able to attend the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.
Teenagers taught about the world of work are more motivated to get higher GCSE results, say researchers.
Read about all the great work our partnerships have been delivering and what we have planned in the next quarter.
For Leicestershire Cares Week, young people attended a World of Work tour at the Walkers Charnwood Bakery – part of Samworth Brothers.
Check out what Leicestershire Cares has been up to in the last year.
Thank you to everyone that attended our Annual Celebration Event on Thursday the 16th of May, it was a great way to celebrate the hard work of our business volunteers.
Alison Jeffrey delivered a thought-provoking presentation on the importance of businesses role in societal change and questioned how local government can best support this going forward.
Check out the film created from this year's YES Awards ceremony, where we celebrated our young people's achievements.
On Friday the 5th of July Leicestershire Cares will be holding a Youth Mental Health First aid course, which will be delivered by Chris Rollings.
Sytner Leicester BMW were able to do two World of Work tours with the STEM Ambassadors from Madani Schools Federation on the 1st and 3rd of May.
Our Annual Celebration Event is being held on Thursday the 16th of May at Winstanley House and we are happy to announce our Award Finalists.
This year we have the opportunity of delivering a series of mental health workshops that ran successfully last year.
Earlier this year, Leicestershire Cares took part in developing new resources aimed at improving care leavers’ access to education, employment and training.
Leicestershire Cares and our CEO Kieran Breen have been nominated for awards by the East Midlands Charity Awards.
This year Knights have organised a charity cycling sportive to raise funds for Leicestershire Cares.
This week Moat Community College invited students and business volunteers that have taken part in the Go For Reading Project to a party to celebrate all the reading successes that have happened this term.
Our Annual Celebration Event is soon approaching on Thursday the 16th of May.
In total this spring term, 1,960 students were given a mock interview by business volunteers at 11 events across schools in Leicester and Leicestershire.
Our first ever work tour at the Kettleby Foods bakery – part of Samworth Brothers.
Check out some more photos from our World of Work tour around BBC Birmingham.
Our young people on the Flying Fish and YES Projects visited the home of Doctor Who and the Peaky Blinders at the BBC Birmingham studios.
Leadership Gateway Ltd have donated £1,500 to the WIRE project to support getting ex-offenders work ready.
Have a read of an article our CEO Kieran Breen has written for Howard League's blog on their website.
Our young people on the Flying Fish and YES Projects went on a work tour at the Sytner Audi showroom.
A new independent living skills workshop through the VOICES project at Leicestershire Cares.
Our CEO Kieran Breen has recently reviewed a book exploring the issues facing care experienced young people.
Lord Willy Bach Police and Crime Commissioner says thank you to all the businesses and organisations for supporting the PCC Business Breakfast event.
166 employees from member businesses rose to the challenge of making the festive season more fun for people by supporting local charities and community groups.
30 local businesses, 22 of which are members of Leicestershire Cares, supported our annual Collect for Christmas appeal and raised almost £26,000 worth of items and cash to support families and individuals affected by homelessness.
Carla Loughrey from Hinckley and Rugby Building Society is our Champion's Champion!
Great Samworth Brothers Supply Chain showcasing their involvement in the PPC Employers Event.
Several local businesses came to support the breakfast event on the 21st of February and many shared their experiences and successes of the WIRE Project.
The annual YES awards where local charities and organisations gather to celebrate the achievements of young people.
Our quarterly update includes all the exciting projects and events Leicestershire Cares has been involved in to ensure no one is left behind.
Leicestershire Cares will be running a new group for care-experienced young people (aged 18+) on a Monday evenings.
The article Kieran Breen wrote for Vulnerability 360 on how the care system is failing young people has sparked further discussion and attention.
The WIRE Project's upcoming breakfast event is set to engage the business community in employing ex-offenders.
Our Chief Executive, Kieran Breen explores why the care system is not delivering for young people.
BBC Radio interview with Amanda and Sam from Alltruck and Dennis Sayer