Dedicated to supporting young carers
and
young people affected by drug/alcohol issues in their family.
A young carer is a child or young person who provides substantial unpaid care for a relative who has disabilities,
long-term physical illnesses, mental health difficulties and/or drug or alcohol issues.
We believe it’s the right of every young carer to be recognised in their role and have the same
opportunities as other children and young people of a similar age.
“Knowing that someone really cares about you and is there to make things better for you is one of the best feelings.”
Young carer
“You guys really do go the extra mile to give families like us the faith we need to keep going.”
Parent of a young carer
Latest News and Events
SYC is closed from 23rd December and will reopen on 2nd January.
We hope you have a lovely festive break but know that this time of year can be hard. If you need any support while we are closed, here are some organisations that can help.
The winter holidays are almost here, so SYC’s Family Project have produced a winter newsletter packed full of ideas and information to make sure everybody has a happy holiday.…
With half-term on the horizon, SYC’s Family Project have produced an Autumn newsletter, packed full of ideas and information to make sure everybody has a brilliant break…
Young People’s One-to-One Worker (Full time)
We have a vacancy for highly motivated young people’s one-to-one worker to work directly with young people aged 8-25, delivering one-to-one support.
That’s right, we’re 27 years old! Come join us in celebrating the lifelong changes Sheffield Young Carers has made in our city and beyond.
Thanks to the wonderful folks over at HoodieHut, our Action Group have been kitted out with these stunning hoodies to wear when they’re out and about doing what they do best!
Now that the Summer holidays are in full-swing, SYC’s Family Project have produced their annual newsletter, packed full of ideas and information to make sure everybody has a brilliant Summer!
Last week was Carers Week! Join us in taking a look back at everything we got up to at SYC to celebrate Carers Week and put carers on the map
Carers Week is one of the most important carer awareness-raising campaigns in the calendar. This year's theme for Carers Week is 'Putting Carers on the Map'.
We’ve signed the Young Carers Covenant for Carers Week 2024. Take a look at what we are committing to, and how you can sign up too!
Latest Tweets
On day five of our 12 tags of Christmas, we're shouting out @BigGive and The Monday Charitable Trust ☃️
— Sheffield Young Carers (@SheffYoungC) December 16, 2024
Our second Christmas Challenge campaign raised a total of £5,679.33!
The Monday Charitable Trust were are champion match-funders, helping to make our campaign a success 🙌 pic.twitter.com/11kmHBwtWn
Today's 12 tags of Christmas goes to @RabTales and his young carer inspired book series The Late Crew ☃️
— Sheffield Young Carers (@SheffYoungC) December 15, 2024
Rab, who visited some of Sheffield's schools last year during his book tour has recently released the sequel to The Late Crew 📖
See more here: https://t.co/KCv5Prnho0 pic.twitter.com/u9YV6p9VsF
Day three of our 12 tags of Christmas and we're giving a huge shoutout to the ace team at @hepp_hq ☃️
— Sheffield Young Carers (@SheffYoungC) December 14, 2024
Hepp have continued to work with young/young adult carers from SYC to explore higher education opportunities available to them - and they always make their session super fun! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/0tKDJqZi8d
It's the second day of our 12 tags of Christmas and today we're shouting out Tesco Savile Street and their Community Champion @BonnieP00737868 ⛄
— Sheffield Young Carers (@SheffYoungC) December 13, 2024
We want to say a massive thank you to Bonnie for allowing some SYC volunteers to hold a bucket collection in-store raising £31.17! pic.twitter.com/uLCTFJ5uNN
Last week our 8-12 year old groups had a brilliant session making their own pizzas 🍕
— Sheffield Young Carers (@SheffYoungC) December 13, 2024
As presented by SYC Project Worker Elena, the creations were all absolutely amazing and they tasted even better 😋 pic.twitter.com/vOin13noRi
With the holidays right around the corner, we are back with the 12 tags of Christmas ⛄
— Sheffield Young Carers (@SheffYoungC) December 12, 2024
Up first is @phf_uk who've supported us through their Youth Strategic Investment Fund over the past 5 years - your support has had a massive impact on SYC and the young people we work with 🙌 pic.twitter.com/y8qwXnqoOp
A great snap from our last Parent Network Event of 2024 📸
— Sheffield Young Carers (@SheffYoungC) December 12, 2024
Find out more about our support for families where there is a young carer supporting an adult who have long-term physical illnesses, mental illnesses, disabilities and/or substance misuse issues: https://t.co/oN5v28qVOh pic.twitter.com/oJZg7pHO7x
The wonderful folks over at @benefactgroup are running a 12 days of giving campaign were 12 lucky charities can win a £1,000 donation!
— Sheffield Young Carers (@SheffYoungC) December 11, 2024
We'd really appreciate it if you could nominate us by clicking the link below 👇https://t.co/J2sLKcmFMD pic.twitter.com/Ts1SwOlDSq
1/2 Our Co-CEO Sara has been super busy during her visit to Japan!
— Sheffield Young Carers (@SheffYoungC) December 10, 2024
Sara visited Kyoto Youth Services Federation where she spoke to some young people about the impact the service has had on them.
Then over the past couple of days, Sara presented at conferences in Kyoto and... pic.twitter.com/vbbNlv6fdX
🚨 YOU'VE done it 🚨
— Sheffield Young Carers (@SheffYoungC) December 9, 2024
Our @BigGive Christmas Challenge campaign total has been reached (£4,400) and is now sat at a whopping £5,165 🎉
Thank you to all who have donated, your support will help ensure that young people we work with can access invaluable counselling sessions 💙 pic.twitter.com/UqiHxVCc8m