We are looking to recruit a Treasurer to our Board of Trustees to take us forward and support our vital work with young carers and young people impacted by familial substance misuse. This hugely rewarding opportunity will use your skills and experience to work alongside an expert and stable staff team with an excellent reputation.
Young Carers Action Day 2024 Round-Up
Young Carers Action Day 2024 has been and gone, but that doesn’t mean SYC are going to stop calling for fairer futures for young carers and young adult carers! Catch up on everything that happened this YCAD, as well as find out more about how you can show your support.
Rab Ferguson's Young Carers Action Day 2024 blog
To help mark Young Carers Action Day, the amazing Rab Ferguson, author of the young carer inspired ‘The Late Crew’ series, speaks on his upcoming sequel, awareness raising and his previous visits to Sheffield!
Young Carers National Voice want YOU to help young carers this Carers Rights Day!
After handing in a letter to 10 Downing Street last week, young carers across the country are calling on YOU to help them this Carers Rights Day!
Reducing barriers and improving support for young carers animation!
Award-winning author visits Greater Reach Brighter Futures Schools!
Rab Ferguson, author of ‘The Late Crew’, which is a story about young carers and aliens (how cool is that!), came to Sheffield to visit some of the schools who have joined our education project Greater Reach Brighter Futures.
The Sheffield Carers Roadshow is taking place on the 5th October 2023
The Sheffield Carers Roadshow comes to town, and it will offer unpaid carers across the city the chance to find out more about support available to them!
Family Project's Summer Newsletter 2023
With the Summer holidays right around the corner, SYC’s family project have produced a brilliant newsletter, packed with lots of ideas and information to make sure it’s an enjoyable, happy Summer for all.
SYC renews its own Power of Youth Charter!
SYC have renewed our Power of Youth Charter this Power of Youth Day! This charter shows our dedication and commitment to giving young people a voice and involving them in decision making across the organisation. We think it is integral to ensuring we offer the best possible support to young people and young carers.
Young Carers National Voice (YCNV) Birmingham Event
On 14th April, Young Carers National Voice (YCNV) members from across the country met for an event in Birmingham!
Family Project's Spring Newsletter
The Easter holidays have arrived, as too has the Family Project’s Spring Newsletter. Read all about the Family Project’s recent good news and success in finding a new team member! The newsletter also includes what’s going on in Sheffield during the holidays, as well as highlights what support is available during the next few week - and we can’t forget the baking recipe either!
Young Carers Action Day 2023: Brilliant new resource for education settings
It's Young Carers Action Day on 15th March and, this year, we’ve got a great new resource to help YOU to help young carers!
Young Carers Action Day is an annual event to raise awareness of young carers in the country. This year's theme is 'make time for young carers' and, to help schools and colleges do this, young people from of Young Carers National Voice (YCNV) have co-produced a brilliant new resource for education settings.
Family Project receives funding from The National Lottery Community Fund!
We are absolutely delighted to let you all know that The National Lottery Community Fund has decided fund our Family Project until 2027.
Caring for yourself this Christmas
SYC is closed from Friday 23rd December and will reopen on Tuesday 3rd 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.
Family Project's Winter Newsletter
With the holidays on the horizon, our amazing Family Project have released their winter newsletter! Catch up on what the Family Project have been up to over the last few months, as well as what is going on in Sheffield during Christmas time and support available to you.
Sign up for our new e-learning module today!
We’re really excited to have launched our new, free e-learning module called ‘Young Carers: Identifying and supporting young people with caring responsibilities in Sheffield’.
This course is aimed at professionals working in Sheffield to help you better identify and support children and young people who have caring responsibilities.
Work in education? Apply to Greater Reach, Brighter Futures today!
Apply today to be part of ‘Greater Reach, Brighter Futures’, SYC’s exciting three-year education project, funded by the British and Foreign School Society and supported by Learn Sheffield and Sheffield City Council.
Join us for our LIVE AGM and Showcase on 27th October 2022!
After two years of hosting this event online, we are delighted that this years AGM and Showcase is live in-person!
SYC Summer Holiday Activities 2022 Round-up
And just like that, the summer holidays have been and gone! We can’t believe how quickly they have flown by this year, but maybe that is because of all the fun we’ve had this summer. Once again, our summer activities have been absolutely AMAZING so let’s have recap over what we got up to during the past 5 weeks!
Family Project's Summer Newsletter
As the summer holidays have now begun (woohoo!), SYC’s family project have produced a wonderful newsletter to inform you on what you can do during the holidays to make sure you have an enjoyable, happy summer.