VOICES FROM CARE CYMRU

Towards unrestricted core costs to support care experienced young people in Wales to participate in Radical Reform, driving change in the care system

One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis

towards three years' running costs of a project providing advocacy and advice for care-experienced children and young people, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Wales.

Voices from Care Cymru in Cardiff will work with care experienced young people to create an event that strengthens relationships between families and supporting professionals. £10000 will fund venue sports kit refreshments and pay for activities ....more

Voices from Care Cymru in Cardiff will work with care experienced young people to create an event that strengthens relationships between families and supporting professionals. £10000 will fund venue sports kit refreshments and pay for activities and travel.

Voices from Care (VfC) will provide integrated wellbeing activities and flexible counselling services to 150 care experienced people across Wales per year. Whilst the project will primarily benefit young people currently in care it will also be open ....more

Voices from Care (VfC) will provide integrated wellbeing activities and flexible counselling services to 150 care experienced people across Wales per year. Whilst the project will primarily benefit young people currently in care it will also be open to adults with previous care experience and in need of specialist support £493789 over three years will fund start-up salaries travel marketing IT and equipment. Bydd Voices from Care (VfC) yn darparu gweithgareddau integredig lles a gwasanaethau cwnsela hyblyg i 150 o bobl sydd wedi cael profiad o ofal ledled Cymru bob blwyddyn. Er y bydd y prosiect o fudd i bobl ifanc sydd mewn gofal ar hyn o bryd yn bennaf bydd hefyd yn agored i oedolion sydd â phrofiad gofal blaenorol ac y bydd angen cymorth arbenigol arnynt. Bydd £493789 dros dair blynedd yn ariannu dechrau’r prosiect cyflogau teithio marchnata TG ac offer.

towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant

Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.

to support specified work

Care-experienced young people can feel that 'corporate parents' - the term for agencies designed to support their care - fail to appreciate the challenges they face. While the first #iwill grant was about the broad recruitment of members for Voices ....more

Care-experienced young people can feel that 'corporate parents' - the term for agencies designed to support their care - fail to appreciate the challenges they face. While the first #iwill grant was about the broad recruitment of members for Voices From Care, this grant will build on the organisation's work to influence policy/ practice. The project will enable care experienced young people to come together in small groups (based on location or issue) to work on social action campaigns that will help to influence corporate parents. For example, a group of care experienced young people in North Wales may create a pod-cast aimed at changing a referral practice within a housing team.

Follow-on funding to contribute to the salary of the Chief Executive Officer to promote the views, protect the interests and improve conditions for young people in care by working strategically with policy makers, funders, young people and other ....more

Follow-on funding to contribute to the salary of the Chief Executive Officer to promote the views, protect the interests and improve conditions for young people in care by working strategically with policy makers, funders, young people and other service providers.

towards three years' running costs of a project providing advocacy and advice for care-experienced children and young people across Wales

Funding for the rental costs of the charities main office in Cardiff enabling them to continue to deliver services for looked after children and care leavers.

LGBT + Participation Forums

Towards the salary of a co-ordinator, evaluation and other project costs to increase young people’s access to a service that enables them to stay with foster carers longer and to improve it.

The project will support young person-organised events across Wales to engage care-experienced young people who have no previous involvement in social action. Once engaged, these young people will join social action campaigns and participation ....more

The project will support young person-organised events across Wales to engage care-experienced young people who have no previous involvement in social action. Once engaged, these young people will join social action campaigns and participation groups aiming to improve services for care- experienced young people.The grant will fund a development worker, the costs of events/social action activities and the organisation’s costs of managing and evaluating the project. Through the grant, care experienced young people will get opportunities and support which they wouldn’t otherwise access and will engage in meaningful social action to improve future services for care-experienced young people.

Voices From Care is a charity which represents the views, rights and experiences of young people who are or have been looked after in Wales. This grant contributes to the salary of the CEO, who will focus on organisational strategy and programme ....more

Voices From Care is a charity which represents the views, rights and experiences of young people who are or have been looked after in Wales. This grant contributes to the salary of the CEO, who will focus on organisational strategy and programme development. It also supports Voices from Care to strengthen core processes, develop its youth-led training and to continue its drive for policy and practice to be better informed by young people and their experience.

supporting young people in Wales who are or have been in care. The grant will fund the costs of consultancy, including implementing training of governance responsibilities and developing an income generation strategy.