Enfield Carers Centre has a fabulous service to support Young Carers aged 5-18 years, funded by the National Lottery.
We are EyPIC, which stands for Enfield Young People in Caring, and we are here to help you with lots of advice and information while you care, encouraging you to take part in all our great activities, discover new interests and make friends with other Young Carers.
If you are looking after somebody in your family, we have lots of things that may help you.
We can:
- Come and support you in school
- Help you with homework or coursework
- Take you out for fun trips and outings
- Invite you to our clubs to meet other Young Carers
- Talk to you about the help that you provide at home and how we can help you
- Help you to make friends with other Young Carers
- Support you with your problems
- Arrange free, one to one tuition
- Arrange for you to have a regular meeting with a mentor
We have even made our own video about being a Young Carer, check it out now!
Come and Join us!
To take part in all our activities and get support from us we need to know a bit more about you and the person you care for. You will need to fill in a form but don’t worry, we can help you do it.
We Are Here to Help You!
View our current EyPlC activities: EyPlC activity brochure.
What people say about EyPIC
“We are so grateful for the support our son receives from EyPIC. It’s really important for him to have some space that is just for him, and to be around other children who ‘get it’. The variety of activities and experiences is brilliant, and all the helpers are really kind, caring and always make our son feel welcome.”
“I’m happy to meet other people like me who are going through the same experiences as I am”
“[EyPIC] are the primary reason we are still here today… All the help we receive stems from [EyPIC] whom never stop working to make sure the young carers as well as the older ones and the actual person whom is ill goes for and gets / has everything they need ranging from the right benefits if entitled to the smallest of things like running out of paper for homework… There’s nothing they will not and have not attempted to do for us, THEY ARE SIMPLY THE BEST…!”
Enfield Carers Centre are proud to support the Young Carers Covenant.
The Young Carers Covenant is a UK-wide commitment to young carers and young adult carers. It sets out ten key outcomes that young carers from across the UK have said are key to improving their lives. Any organisation or individual in a position to take action to help achieve these outcomes is urged to sign up to the Covenant. They could be national governments, local authorities, schools, colleges as well as parliamentarians across the UK. It was drawn up by the Carers Trust and members of the Young Carers Alliance. The Young Carers Covenant was launched on Young Carers Action Day 2024. You can find out more about it here: https://carers.org/campaigning-for-change/the-young-carers-covenant
Enfield Carers Centre has committed to these 10 actions:
- We will continue our outreach work in schools and the community to ensure young carers are identified at the earliest opportunity.
- We will continue to host CV and interview skills workshops and advise on employment and training opportunities.
- We will continue to offer a safe space for young carers for respite and relaxation, but also for them to know they can share their experiences with us and we will listen to and support them.
- We will continue to involve young carers in their support plans and offer more opportunities for their voices to be heard to enable them to realise they have choices in their lives.
- We will make young carers aware of their rights, including their right to a transitional assessment, and ensure they can access and benefit from the rights they have.
- We will continue our outreach work in schools and train school staff in identifying and supporting young carers, and we will advocate for their rights so they can thrive in education.
- We will offer a range of social activities for young carers and help to arrange respite care where necessary, so they have time for themselves.
- We will ensure young carers are identified and aware of the services we offer, signpost to other services where relevant, and offer a whole-family approach, so young carers can access support for themselves and their family.
- We will offer young carers the opportunity to attend fun sessions on physical and mental health, and signpost to other organisations and services where relevant to ensure they have good physical and mental health.
- We will ensure that young carers receive financial support through helping them apply for grants, meeting with our Benefits Advisor, making them aware of the benefits available to them and their families, and offer creative financial skills sessions to ensure that young carers live free from poverty.
The EyPIC Project are proud to be working with Jack Petchey on their achievement and leadership award schemes.
This means that our Young Carers get to nominate one of their own, a few times a year, for an achievement award, which then gets spent on either equipment or an activity chosen by the winner. It is a wonderful way for young carers to receive some recognition from their peers and for the project to be able to celebrate those achievements with all of the Young Carers.
We are also proud members of London Youth and have worked with them on two
amazing projects. The ‘Youth Leadership Awards Scheme’ where five of our 16-year-old Young Carers came together to plan a project to raise awareness of Young Carers. This included two residential trips away to meet other youth groups and preparing a pitch and presentation to the London Youth Team, which they did perfectly.
We also participated in the ‘Keeping It Wild’ project, where a team of our Young Carers worked on a project to raise awareness of environmental issues.
