The EyPIC team were very busy over Young Carers Action Day (YCAD) 2023!

Before YCAD:

  1. 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)
  2. 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
  3. 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:

  1. The team distributed YCAD cards to young carers by post, in person, and in schools
  2. The team raised awareness of young carers through a stall and ward visits at Chase Farm Hospital
  3. 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.
  4. Feryal Clark, Member of Parliament for Enfield North visited the centre to speak with staff and Young Carers – see our report here.
  5. The team were interviewed by NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation