The EyPIC team were very busy over Young Carers Action Day (YCAD) 2023!
Before YCAD:
- Carla delivered a Young Carers Awareness assembly and met with the Children’s Commissioner for England during a visit to St John and St James School on the Monday (photo attached)
- A group of young carers from Enfield Carers Centre took part in a spoken word workshop with Write2Speak around the YCAD theme and created this film – https://carers.org/young-carers-action-day-2023/enfield-carers-x-write2speak
- Young Carers from 6 different Carers Centres, including Rosie from Enfield Carers Centre, came together to create a video raising awareness for Young Carers Action Day by reading the Late Crew! https://youtu.be/s2ulscizTQc
YCAD itself:
- The team distributed YCAD cards to young carers by post, in person, and in schools
- The team raised awareness of young carers through a stall and ward visits at Chase Farm Hospital
- Young Carers attended a YCAD-themed arts and crafts session at Enfield Carers Centre, this included a YCAD wordsearch, sending pocket hugs, illustrating poems about young carers, making jigsaws, and decorating masks.
- Feryal Clark, Member of Parliament for Enfield North visited the centre to speak with staff and Young Carers – see our report here.
- The team were interviewed by NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation