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 2025, Young Carers at Enfield Carers Centre voted for their Jack Petchey Achievement Award Winners.
In April 2025, Sarah was nominated by other Young Carers at our centre for being easy to talk to, a good listener, and easy-going. Young Carers praised her kindness and sense of humour.
One Young Carer who attended an event for the first time said that Sarah was very welcoming and made her feel comfortable in a new environment. Another Young Carer nominated Sarah because she is very helpful to her peers and is always ready to help.
Sarah is incredibly kind, and always makes others feel happy and safe. She loves meeting new Young Carers and helps them feel welcome to the group. Sarah is always smiling and Young Carers love being around her.
In May 2025, Divine attended our residential and was nominated by several Young Carers who also attended.
They praised her confidence and kindness and commented that she is easily approachable.
One Young Carer said that Divine is ‘very kind, respectful, helpful, wise, and has very good leadership skills’. Another said that Divine is ‘really responsible and good at communicating and working with others’.
Divine is very thoughtful and always puts others before herself. She is always happy to help out and welcome new young people to our group. She is a great role model.
In October 2025, Ava was nominated by other Young Carers for being kind, caring, reliable at attending events, and being ‘a really good person to be near’. Many Young Carers commented that Ava is nice to everyone, and was helpful in a recent photography project.
Young Carers praised Ava’s friendliness and noticed that she quickly makes friends with everyone. One Young Carer commented that Ava is ‘super kind and smart, and I think she deserves it as she is very sweet to people’.
Ava is an incredible young person, always kind, polite, and welcoming to Young Carers in our group. She goes out of her way to support Young Carers and help them to achieve, particularly the younger ones.
We are incredibly proud of our Jack Petchey Achievement Award winners from 2024 who had their ceremony on Thursday 13th March 2025. Congratulations to Deborah, Jessica, and Isobel – 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.
