£3.45 million funding boost for Carers Trust to support UK’s most vulnerable unpaid carers
Carers Trust leads new programme to support over 13,500 carers worst affected by pandemic
Carers Trust is pleased to announce it is working with 25 programme partners to use £3.45 million of funding to boost support for over 13,500 unpaid family carers. The programme, Making Carers Count, will support unpaid carers from community groups which, until now, have received little support for their caring roles.
The reason so many of these unpaid carers have, up to now, encountered barriers to accessing support is because they are either LGBTQ+, from an ethnic minority community or young. Male carers have also received relatively little support for their caring role.
The Making Carers Count programme will help provide the support that is urgently needed now for these under-represented carers.
Many were also disproportionately impacted by some of the worst effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, including the need to remain housebound to shield those they care for and drastically reduced incomes, all with no identified support available to them.
The expansion and creation of targeted support has been made possible thanks to funding from the Covid-19 Support Fund. This has been used by Carers Trust to support 25 local carer services to deliver targeted project activities in their local areas until end March 2024. (see Editor Notes 3 for more detail on these local carer services) These activities will support approximately 13,500 unpaid carers.
Welcoming the Making Carers Count awards to the 25 local carer services, as well as the start of project delivery, Carers Trust’s Head of Grants and Programmes, Trisha Thompson, said:
“For too long, far too many unpaid family carers have struggled, unrecognised and unsupported, to provide essential care and support for their loved ones. This investment will be a game-changer for the lives of 13,500 carers and all those they care for. It means that Carers Trust and front line carers services will have far more capacity to identify, support and involve carers from those under-represented communities so they can access the appropriate carer support they so desperately need if they are to carry on caring for their loved ones, both now and long after the Covid-19 pandemic.”
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