Our Young Carers are all incredibly talented. These are some of the activities they have done while learning new skills.
Heritage Project
A group of Young Carers from Enfield Carers Centre have been participating in a Heritage Project through London Youth with support from On The Record.
In July 2024, they interviewed Sarah Kirkham, Museum Officer at Forty Hall. You can listen to the interview on our YouTube channel here.
Jack Petchey Awards for our Young Carers
In 2024, Young Carers at Enfield Carers Centre voted for their Jack Petchey Achievement Award Winners.
In March 2024, Deborah was nominated by other young carers at our centre for being very nice, a great friend, funny, kind, helpful, and entertaining.
One young carer said that Deborah makes her laugh and therefore feel better.
Deborah brings enthusiasm to everything she does and is always eager to participate in activities with a smile on her face.
Deborah is extremely sociable and loves to entertain people, she has boundless energy, and enjoyed meeting new people at our recent residential.
In June 2024, Jessica was nominated by other young carers for being nice, funny, helpful, and overcoming her fears.
One Young Carer said that they nominated Jessica because she is determined to complete an activity even if this pushes her out of her comfort zone, another said that Jessica is a perfect combination of calm and outgoing.
Jessica is a great ambassador for the centre and was recently interviewed about her caring role.
Jessica is a fantastic role model for everyone – she gets on extremely well with others and is always keen to help out – especially with tidying up.
She doesn’t seek praise, but her efforts are noticed, and much appreciated!
We are incredibly proud of our Jack Petchey Achievement Award winners from 2023 who had their ceremony on Thursday 25th April 2024. Congratulations to Pedro, James, and Ephraim – well deserved!
Hear This Very Talented Musician
Our Young Carers are all incredibly talented.
Please listen to the sensational Sammie-Jo singing ‘Killing Me Softly With His Song’.
Jack Petchey Awards for our Young Carers in Previous Years
EyPIC is supported by the Jack Petchey Foundation, where our Young Carers can nominate each other to be recognised for an outstanding achievement; if this is successful, the Young Carer is awarded with £300 that they can spend, in a manner of their choosing, to support the EyPIC project. Previous awards have been spent on arts & crafts equipment, a Nintendo Switch and a trip to ‘Go Jump In’.
Although Young Carers can access support from our EyPIC Team, there are numerous occasions when they have opportunities to support us too.
Some of our Young Carers have taken part in the London Youth Leadership Programme, where they successfully put in a pitch to create a Zine, to give insights into the life of a young carer. For their efforts they were awarded the full amount available, £700, from the London Youth Panel.
Some of our amazing Young Carers from Chace Community School, raised £1000 for the project by competing against other groups in their year to deliver a presentation about EyPIC. We were very proud when they won!
Our Young Carers are not just offered social activities and support by us. We also offer them the opportunity to develop skills and recognise their potential. Whether this is helping them develop workplace skills by offering work experience and tips on CV writing, making them think about the positive impact that they and their peers make, or encouraging them to participate in Youth Leadership projects; we do support Young Carers, because everyone needs help now and again, but we prefer to empower them because they are an incredible bunch!
Keeping it Wild
Previously, a group of Young Carers were involved with London Youth’s ‘Keeping It Wild’ project, a social action programme providing opportunities for young people to engage in conservation about the environment and how to raise awareness with young people on environmental issues.
