
Care leavers and Universal Credit policy asks launched nationally
27 Jun 2022Leicestershire Cares is pleased to see our key policy asks with Learning and Work Institute get national coverage
Leicestershire Cares is pleased to see our key policy asks with Learning and Work Institute get national coverage
Neetu our head of community development has been shortlisted as a FINALIST in the Together Award category for BBC Radio Leicester’s inaugural Make a Difference Awards.
Samworth Brothers and Leicestershire Cares have a long, rewarding and very productive partnership. Over the years we worked together on a range of projects that supported community groups, young people and schools.
We were happy to be back at Queensmead Primary Academy today to present the prizes to the Number Partners Maths Challenges winners
The Community Development Team’s Youth Homelessness Development Officer Jess Strutt has been establishing and expanding her “Making Moves” project, providing sessions that support young people facing problems with access to permanent accommodation.
We are delighted to share, that Kieran our CEO , has been appointed to the advisory group of the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Police and Crime Commissioner.
We participated in the Leicester Textile and Garment Worker’s Trust research report ‘Fashioning a Beautiful Future’ which is now published online.
It was great catching up with community partners and colleagues from the East Midlands Chambers network at the Shama women’s centre to discuss how we can support local firms to give back to the local community.
Since the start of May this year, the Community Development Team’s new Youth and Community Development Officer Lee Hawthorne has been providing drop-in sessions in Leicester City offering young people with training in barbering and sports coaching.
We took a group of young people on a residential at Hope Valley in The Peak District
Mentorship, the pathway to reducing Crime
Last Thursday, the Community Development Team attended and volunteered to support a celebration event for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee at the New Parks Community Centre in Leicester City.
This month, the Community Development Team at Leicestershire Cares began hosting a six-week “Art 4 Mental Wellbeing” course run by local mental health charity Jamila’s Legacy.
Last Sunday, members of the Community Development Team attended Leicester City’s Polish Heritage Day event to learn about and to celebrate Poland’s culture and contributions to UK society.
Last Saturday, members of the Community Development Team attended the “Your Space” event at Moat Community College in Leicester City.
After visiting the wonderful Everards Meadows earlier in the year for a world of work tour, NEET young people from The YES Project visited Everards Logistic Centre, finding out more about the behind the scenes of Everard's operation.
We were delighted that Sir Jonathan North Girls College, who had two girls participate in our Employability programme for young people with visual impairment, recently wrote an article about their experience for their school newsletter
The Independent Review of Children's Social Care in England has today published its final report and recommendations
Bridging the gap between prison and the workplace
Last week the YES project went on a Work Tour to Walker&Son – a Samorth Brothers business that manufactures a national treasure: “The Pork Pie”.
We have had a very busy and productive few months, which has seen us recruit eight new staff to work across our projects.
Our Power to Change project funded by “The National Lottery Community Fund”, aims to encourage business, public sector and community groups to work in partnership with each other and young people.
‘Guess My job’ – Employer engagement activity in schools.
We were delighted to host a visit from economist, political scientist specialising in inequality, broadcaster and co host of the Politics Jam Podcast Jeevun Sandher.
The Community Development Team has had a very successful quarter. We are extending our work uniting business partners and community groups in generating a lasting positive impact on peoples' lives.
Using our Power To Change model our Leaving Care team have been busy to ensure every young person can adapt to issues and become active citizens
In the run-up to Easter Sunday this April, the Community Development Team, with the support of businesses, decided to give something back to local community groups across city and county.
Year 11 students at Keyham Lodge School take part in a successful interview technique event
With a range of remote and face to face events this spring term, our business volunteers have supported just over 8500 students with their interview and employability skills.
Three of our care experienced young people took a trip to the Big Smoke to learn about politics, public affairs and to see Parliament from a new perspective
We want to say a massive thank you to our business members for volunteering at our six-week employability programme GET Ahead.
ExChange: Family and Community is an online “Community of Practice” resource hub that aims to provide resources that can help to support families and communities.
The Community Development Team’s Youth Homelessness Development Officer Jess Strutt visited the Freedom Youth Club in Leicester City to start a weekly drop-in service supporting refugee and asylum-seeking young people
Working in collaboration with The Vision Support Team, Leicester City Council, last month we successfully completed our employability programme for young people with a visual impairment
Last Wednesday, members of the Community Development Team volunteered to visit Lutterworth High School and provide interview technique training to Year 10 pupils.
Members of the Community Development Team paid a visit to the New Parks Community Centre in Leicester City.
The Community Development Teams Golden Heart Winners- Cambridge and County
Leicestershire Cares Teams Champions Champion Tina Siena-Tomlinson -Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Leicestershire County Council Public Health funds specialist support services for those affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence, and has recently undertaken recommissioning of those services ensuring they remain the best response to local need
The Community Development Teams Golden Heart Winners
Our youth team were delighted to present Jennifer Griffiths from Everards Brewery with a Golden Heart at our last champions meeting
Leicestershire Cares Eggstravaganza Campaign 2022
It was great to meet with our business champions to celebrate our work over the last six months and to look at how we can improve how we work together over the coming year.
Congratulations to our education volunteers who won Golden Heart awards at our spring Champions meeting
Staff and young people were delighted to host a meeting with visitors from Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), Seattle, Kings County USA and staff from the VRN and Revolving Doors.
Young people in the youth justice system require access to team building activities
Leicestershire cares is dedicated to helping charities and organisations upskill, and allow them to build their knowledge, so they can provide better service to their participants.
We have been working in partnership with MoneywisePlus , DMU Local and Socialbox Biz to encourage local people and firms to donate old laptops, Tablets and Mobile phones, which are wiped clean, upgraded and passed onto people who need them.
We will be visiting the Houses of Parliament and having a comms planning day with a national policy organisation to help raise awareness of our policy asks
Leicestershire Cares staff, trustees, partners, and young people would like to wish everyone celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day a wonderful time.
Young people who are engaged in meaningful work stand a reduced chance of getting involved in criminal activity
Working in collaboration with Leicester City Council SEND Support Service, we’ve made a great start to our employability programme for visually impaired young people in Leicester
The community development team were delighted to join a night of celebration with aspiring community leaders.
On Tuesday 8th March was International Women's Day, where we celebrated all women. We held an event where we learnt about #BreakingTheBias, gender equality, gender bias and how IWD is celebrated around the world.
With the student theme of this year’s celebration being ‘It’s all about you’, Let’s work together to empower young people to take control, believe in themselves and explore their options.
We partnered with Outspoken to bring together a group of ladies in a safe, inclusive space to feel empowered to speak and share conversations.
Leicestershire Cares is creating a short video on the importance for business members to embrace diversity and develop cultural awareness.
This week our young people on the Yes and Powering up projects embarked on a 12-week journey with TWOTH, a programme of wellbeing
Overview of our Education events, including Speedy Speakers, Interview Technique, Guess My Job, Workplace Behaviours, and CV workshops.
Over the last few years, we have had a fair amount of success, but we recognise that the context in which we operate is forever changing.
On the VIP Project we are working with young people to help them set goals
We have come to the end of the first cohort of our 6-week employability programme, GET AHEAD.
We are looking forward to hosting an online get together of our business champions on March 24th.
The Diversity and Inclusion webinars concluded last week with an inspiring account of Suzan Owera's experiences.
At Leicestershire Cares we are always keen to reflect with our partners on our practice and to seek to use our learning to influence relevant policy debates. So, we were delighted to be able to host a visit from the Centre for Social Justice.
“It takes a village to raise a child”. This phrase highlighting how all of us have a role to play in ensuring that care experienced people can achieve their potential. This article shows a collection of thoughts from the care experienced young people
Leicestershire Cares leaving care work has fed into the Bright lights and warm relationships: SCALING THE IMPACT OF SUPPORT FOR CARE LEAVERS INTO SUSTAINABLE CAREERS report.
Our young people have been helping us recruit new staff for our CYP and CD teams
Leicestershire Cares' Taking Hold of Our Heritage project appears as a case study in the final report.
Young people take part in a Leicestershire Police Drug Awareness workshop
On Care Day 2022, we are celebrating our success so far in our efforts to improve welfare support for care experienced young people
Leicestershire Cares is dedicated to upskilling grassroots charities and helping them build their capacity so that they are not left behind and able to provide better service to their participants.
As a team we welcome the government’s long awaited white paper on “Levelling Up” In the government’s own words “But not everyone shares equally in the UK’s success.
Care Leaver designs and delivers awareness training for Leicester College’s Student Support Team and mentors
As we enter 2022, we can all be proud of the tremendous work we have delivered for young people and communities in danger of being left behind
Cllr Nita Solanki hosted our fifth Diversity and Inclusion webinar for our staff members on 27th January.
The final figures for our #BagsOfHope campaign
Leicestershire Cares is working with three of our care experienced young people, Learning and Work Institute and two other CEYP organisations across England to improve care leavers' experiences of the welfare system
Young people from Leicestershire Cares found out about the ins and outs of daily business at one of Leicestershire historic companies, Everards, while on a World of Work Tour.
The YES Project team continued to support NEET YP in education, employment and training outcomes
Its been a successful quarter for Community Development Team, check out what we have been up too!
A review of Leicestershire Cares Leaving Care work for October to the end of 2021
The Education Team had a packed Autumn term organising and delivering interview technique events, employability events and workshops, and launched a new project for visually impaired young people.
Leicestershire Cares Education team’s new project focusing on employability for visually impaired young people
As we enter 2022, we will be “powering up” our “Power to Change” approach , by appointing staff to work on three new projects.
This page include several UP-Project successes throughout quarter 2.
After over a year of uncertainty in schools and businesses, due to Covid19, the Leicestershire Cares education team are looking forward to relaunching the Go for Reading project to start in the school summer term 2022.
Exploring career opportunities for young people in the leisure and fitness industry at Everyone Active Wigston
Leicestershire Cares has partnered with Equality Action Loughborough to create a Covid-19 Vaccine information podcast in Gujarati for local communities
Our #BagsOfHope campaign has been a much needed and timely response to the latest Covid surge, that has sought to offer support to those in danger of being left behind.
Onn the 10th of November we had the privilege of hosting 10 frontline community groups for our awareness training in modern slavery, human trafficking, and county lines.
Neetu, our Head of Community Development was delighted to attend the annual celebration of diversity across our city, where the special guest was the civil rights legend the Rev Jesse Jackson
It's been a busy term for our Education team delivering a variety of employability events for secondary schools, with support from our volunteers. We held nine events in five schools and colleges, with volunteers attending virtually or in person.
Queensmead Primary Academy wins Number Partners maths challenges for the second year!
Kieran has shared some thoughts and reflections with the staff team.
Kieran our CEO, attended the breakfast launch of the LLEP’s ten year economic growth strategy.
The UP Project have delivered £10 Amazon vouchers to all of their participants currently working with them to wish them a MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
As part of our commitment to building our team and supporting the local community, we took part in a festive challenge at the wonderful Emerald Centre.
Our community development team have been delighted to support Cossington FC, a grassroot community led initiative in Belgrave that seeks to provide young men from a diverse range of background with opportunities to play football on a Sunday
Our community development team were honoured to attend the local Christmas celebration of the Dialogue society.
Leicestershire Cares’ leaving care works features in Esmee’s Learning Programme Insight Report 2021.
Across our city and county, the business community has been stepping up to collect for our #BagsOfHope campaign.
A night of celebration was held to recognise and honour individuals who have made significant contributions to their communities.
Through our engagement with the Review and our work with care experienced young people, we have developed five specific asks that we have submitted to the reviews’ Call for Ideas.
We were delighted to award Jessica Davies from Joules with our Champions' Champion Award in recognition of all her work for us over the last six months
The Unlocking Potential project were delighted to be able to hold their first face-to-face employability workshop post COVID-19, with the support from CPWP Director, Ashley Cowdrey!
We are delighted to be chosen once again to be part of the wonderful Winter Gardens initiative
The Community Development Team at Leicestershire Cares were delighted to present Jackie Penney from Ford and Slater a Golden Heart.
Care experienced young people create a graffiti mural to express themselves with a powerful message. The project supported by Pedestrian and ENGIE
The Community Development Team at Leicestershire Cares was delighted to present Clementine Lomas from Alltruck with a Golden Heart.
At Leicestershire Cares, we are inclusive and celebrate our diverse community’s faith festivals, by reaching out to the communities and making sure nobody is left behind.
Leicestershire Cares presents our work of linking businesses with care experienced young people at the Culture Cares Conference 2021
We were delighted to present Michelle Tong from Hinckley and Rugby Building Society with a Golden Heart certificate today at our Champions meeting.
We were delighted to present Owain Turner with a Golden Heart as a thank you for volunteering as our event photographer at our annual celebration event
As part of our commitment to building partnerships between government, community and business we were delighted to host a seminar on Wednesday 17th November
YES Project team continued to support NEET YP into education, employment and training outcomes
As part of our diversity and inclusion webinars for our staff team to learn about different cultures and values. We were thrilled to have Cheryl Armatrading host the webinar to talk about African Caribbean community.
Interview technique events are an easy way to give back to young people and help them bridge the gap between school and the workplace. Volunteering your time for just one morning can make all the difference to a young person's life.
Leicestershire Cares supports campaign to improve support for young carers across the UK
The Community Development Team have been very busy connecting businesses, communities and local government with a recent visit from our MP Liz Kendall.
Our Education work is off to a great start this term with over 14 secondary schools requesting face to face or remote interview technique events.
On behalf of all our trustees, staff, volunteers, partners and young people we would like to wish all our friends in the community a wonderful and happy Diwali.
Leicestershire Cares celebrated our amazing care experienced young people during National Care Leavers Week 2021 by looking back at 3 years of work funded by Esmee Fairbairn Leaving Care Funding Stream
A review of Leicestershire Cares Leaving Care work for July to September 2021
Our community development team has partnered with Moneywise Plus to offer a “Green” solution to tackling the “Digital Divide”
During National Care Leavers Week 2021, ITV Central visited Leicestershire Cares to speak to our care experienced young people.
Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming YES Employability events
Over the past quarter, the UP Project has seen many successes, from being short listed for an award, lots of participants gaining education, training and employment and the launch of our 'Lives not Knives' animation!
Coproduced toolkit for businesses, local authorities and support organisations to understand the issues facing care experienced young people looking for work.
Excited to announce Hinckley and Rugby Building Society won our Outstanding Contribution to work with NEET Young People award 2021
After the summer break our education volunteers are back in schools once again, inspiring students to reach their career goals and opening their eyes to job roles they may not have thought of
Thermo Fisher Scientific wins Outstanding Contribution to Employability
We were delighted to present Evan Crosskey from Hinckley and Rugby Building Society with our Education Volunteer of the Year 2021 at our awards evening
Joules win Outstanding Contribution to Education award
Hinckley and Rugby Building society win Outstanding Contribution to Interview Technique Award
As part of our commitment to ongoing development and learning, we took time out on Friday to reflect on what we are learning from our efforts to implement our “Power To Change Model”.
We're delighted that our UP Project has been shortlisted for the Youth Justice Award in the CYP Now Awards 2021
Every year around one-third of all Government spending goes on public contracts to the private sector.
We are delighted to announce that following from our annual awards celebration NYLACAST were our winners for outstanding contribution to the community development team 2021.
The Youth Voice Census exists to share the views and experiences of young people aged 14 - 24 across the UK.
Thermo Fisher Scientific win the award at Leicestershire Cares Business Members Awards 2021
The UP Project are delighted to announce that Alltruck were crowned our winner for their outstanding contribution to work with young offenders at our annual celebration event
The Community Development team at Leicestershire Cares funded five diverse communities across Leicester an opportunity for a day trip to Skegness.
We were thrilled to be able to hold our annual award ceremony face to face last week at the stunning Winstanley House.
Kieran our CEO was honoured to be asked to contribute to episode one of this great new podcast series from “Leicester Stories”
We are delighted to announce that following on from our annual awards celebration, Sally Romankiw, of Walkers deli, Samworth Brothers, is our volunteer of the year 2021.
We are delighted to announce that following on from our annual awards ceremony, the Hinckley and Rugby Building Society, are our company of the year.
Leicestershire Cares Taking Hold of Our Heritage book is used as a resource in Zimbabwe Care Leavers Network Advocacy Strategic Planning day
Today we launched our brand new video tackling knife crime in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
We were delighted to win the not for profit sector award at the LLBA21 awards last Thursday. Winning the award was a real boost for all our participants, volunteers, partners and staff.
To kick off Leicestershire Cares Week, we're publishing our end of year report, celebrating the great work of our business members, community partners, schools and of course our team!
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for our Education Volunteer of the Year award at our upcoming annual celebration
We are excited about presenting the Outstanding Contribution to Employability Award at our upcoming awards ceremony. We have nominated four companies who have all worked tirelessly to support our remote events with schools.
We are delighted to announce the shortlist of businesses nominated for their support for our UP Project at the Leicestershire Cares Annual Celebration Event 2021
Leicestershire Cares’ Participation Day empowering our young people to become leaders in their own lives, communities and drive the direction of our work
The YES Team at Leicestershire Cares would like to thank and celebrate the business volunteers who have supported our work to help young people transition into Education, Employment and Training
Summer should be a time of fun and excitement for children, but for many this is not the case.
We have been through some challenging times over the past two years so we would like to celebrate and thank all our business members
Our shortlist for ‘Outstanding contribution to work with Care Experienced Young People’, is created by innovation from our business members in co-production, design, mentoring, networks, conversations and support to boost young people’s self-esteem a
We are excited to have shortlisted 5 businesses who were outstanding in giving their time to help us ensure that students still received a mock interview and feedback last academic school year, despite disruptions to workplaces and schools.
Over the last few months we have been shortlisted for several awards
Rupert Mathews the PCC for LLR visited our office last Thursday to find out more about the work we deliver in partnership with the VRN, PCC, business and community partners to make our communities safer
Leicestershire Cares takes it’s care experienced young people for a day of teambuilding, high ropes and pushing themselves out of their comfort zone
The UP Project 'LIVES NOT KNIVES' animation on 21st September 2021
The summer has been a time of planning, revision and reflection for the Education team. We’ve been planning how we’d like our projects to progress, what has been working well, what we can improve and reflecting on our volunteers’ experiences
Young people supported by Leicestershire Cares help us to recruit our new YES Project Development Officer.
Our leaving care team has been working with our care experienced young people to make sure their views are heard by the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care
As our year end drew to a close the sun also set on our Strava walking challenge
At our recent team meeting we asked all staff to complete the sentence “What I have liked most about working at Leicestershire Cares over the last year"
In 1989, Kieran our CEO, went to Sweden with a group of disabled young people, to see what lessons could be learnt from the Swedish approach to supporting people with disabilities.
Tackling Misinformation Together As Community In Action!
Empowering and Connecting Our Community
The Social Mobility Commission has published it’s State of the Nation report 2021, in which they call for a shake-up of child welfare benefits and significant investment in education to put disadvantaged children and young people at centre stage.
Charlotte, our Head of Children and Young People, was delighted to win the Community Award at the inaugural East Midlands Chambers Generation Next awards.
Wishing all our friends, staff, young people and partners a very happy Eid Ul Adha
Developing peer to peer support to battle poor mental wellbeing and isolation in care experienced young people
How hosting a Meet an Employer Event for care experienced young people can open doors to new networks and knowledge
We’ve developed an info sheet aimed at parents, carers and families, that lists where to go for digital support, training, access to digital devices and useful websites.
Over the last year, our city and county have faced many challenges. In many ways, Covid 19 and the lockdown have exacerbated and shone a light on inequalities that we already knew existed.
For the last in our series of #BBBYouthWelfare webinars run in partnership with De Montfort University and LLR Safeguarding Children Partnerships, we focussed on the implications of the “Levelling up” agenda for local growth and development.
Read Simran`s article on how the impacts of Climate Change falls unfairly across society
Staff got involved in a team litter pick at Nelson Mandela Park
The Education team has a calendar full of remote student events for the remaining school term and continue to plan for the new academic year ahead.
We were delighted to deliver two more successful remote mock interview events recently with year 10 students from English Martyrs Catholic School. This brings the total remote interview technique events delivered by Leicestershire Cares to 23.
Our business volunteers have continued to help students learn about different careers and industries through our employability events
Volunteers and school staff involved in Number Partners (NP) and Go for Reading (GFR) recently joined us remotely to talk about how we can relaunch these projects so that they impact students in the best way possible in the future.
Using our Power to Change Approach, which focuses on building relationships, networks and connections, to help care experienced young people get on in life
An insight into the amazing work being carried out by our Community Development Team
Another positive and useful meeting between The YES Project and the project`s Business Member Steering Group
Leicestershire Cares is saying thank you to all its business volunteers during Volunteers’ Week 2021
We are thrilled to bring diverse community organisations and Leicestershire Cares staff team together on an experiential learning through lived experiences as part of our diversity and inclusion work.
In a special International edition of our #BBBYouthWelfare series, run in partnership with De Montfort University.
In the last of our #BBBYouthWelfare series, we will be discussing “Levelling up”.
To combat the strains of working from home and to maintain levels of teamwork and overall wellbeing, the social committee at Leicestershire Cares have set up a Strava activity challenge for staff
Pupils at The Queensmead Primary Academy were thrilled to receive Maths games kindly donated by Hinckley and Rugby Building society.
At Leicestershire Cares, we are committed to reflecting on our experience and capturing learning to improve our practice
We were delighted to share our reflections on the importance of memory and community for care experienced young people at the APPG evidence session chaired by Daisy Cooper MP
Our remote interview events continue to inspire students and volunteers alike
Bringing people together, creating social connectiveness and developing peer to peer support to battle poor mental wellbeing and isolation in care experienced young people.
As part of the continuing partnership between Leicestershire Cares and the UNAI SDG16 Hub at De Montfort University we are delighted to welcome Rakesh Rajani to give a keynote speech about international perspectives on #BuildBackBetter.
Eid Mubarak to All our friends and followers who celebrate have a lovely day and a peaceful year
Queensmead Primary Academy Number Partners winners
The eighth webinar of our #BBBYouthWelfare series, focused on the needs and experiences of young mothers and their babies throughout the Covid-19 pandemic
Pathways continue to support NEET Young People on the YES Project with another informative session.
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
On the Go For Reading Project, it has been uplifting to receive feedback from the schools and volunteers.