News for you

Our new booklet is designed to help you relax and improve your wellbeing through a series of simple breathing and mindfulness exercises that can be done in a short amount of time.

We've recently taken part in an exciting new documentary being filmed by Japanese Director Mari Yamamoto, which looks at how support for young carers has developed over the decades in the UK.

Thanks to all those who took part in and supported Carers Week in Surrey 2024 - another fantastic year of celebrations.

Carers UK launched its  State of Caring 2024 survey this week, and we need your help to get as many carers to complete the survey as possible to ensure their voices are heard by the next government, whoever that may be.

Carers UK have published a new report for Carers Week 2024, 'No Choice But to Care, highlighting pressures unpaid carers are under across the UK

We've decorated #ComptonPhoneBox to celebrate Carers Week, with lots of decorations on the outside and information on the inside. If you are driving through Compton, please stop and take a look!

A huge well done to the team from accountants Azets who climbed Mount Snowden in atrocious conditions to raise money for young carers in Surrey.

There's an important petition set up by the Carers Poverty Alliance (which we're part of) demanding both improvements to Carers Allowance and to push back on the shocking over-payments situation facing many carers. Please sign!

Action for Carers supports the 'Carers Manifesto', just launched by Carers UK, in advance of a likely change of government this year. 

A new policy is being rolled out from April in hospitals, giving carers (and those they care for) new rights if they are worried that the person they care for's condition is deteriorating.

The new Carer's Leave Act which will help carers in England, Scotland and Wales, is due to come into force on 6th April 2024.

Carers Trust launches Young Carers Covenant - a national scheme to encourage everyone to do all they can to support young carers