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💜 Caring About Equality: How Bridgit Care Is Closing the Gaps for Unpaid Carers

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Caring About Equality: Bridgit Care’s Year-Round Commitment to Unpaid Carers Carers Week 2025 shines a spotlight on the theme “Caring About Equality”, highlighting the disparities unpaid carers face and calling for better, fairer support. At Bridgit Care, we believe equality must be built into every part of the carer journey—not just acknowledged once a year. […]

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Top Tips for Young Carers

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Top Tips for Young Carers: Support, Strength & Self-Care Being a young person is already full of challenges—from school and exams to friendships and figuring out who you are. But for thousands of young people across the UK, there’s another big responsibility added to that list: caring for someone at home. These incredible young

Carers Week 2025

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Carers Week 2025: Caring About Equality Carers Week 2025 takes place from Monday 9th to Sunday 15th June, and this year’s powerful theme is “Caring About Equality.” It’s a timely reminder that every carer deserves recognition, respect, and the same opportunities as everyone else—no matter their background, age, or circumstances. At Bridgit Care, we

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Carers Trust Conference 2025

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Bridgit Care at the Carers Trust Conference: Strengthening Support for Carers Together At Bridgit Care, our mission has always been to provide meaningful and accessible support to unpaid carers across the UK. This year, we are excited to be attending the Carers Trust Conference in York on the 9th & 10th of April 2025, where

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Young Carers Action Day 2025

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Young Carers Action Day 2025: Supporting Young Carers Every Step of the Way At Bridgit Care, we believe that no young carer should feel alone. This Young Carers Action Day 2025, we are standing in solidarity with the thousands of young people who dedicate their time and energy to caring for someone. Young Carers Action

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Carers Trust Partnership

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Bridgit Care & Carers Trust: A Partnership to Transform Carer Support A Personal Message from Darren Crombie, Founder of Bridgit Care At Bridgit Care, our mission has always been simple—to support unpaid carers across the UK. Last year, we reached a point where we had grown as large as we had planned, and we began

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Carers Rights Update

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Empowering Carers: New Rights Under the Carer’s Leave Act 2024 As of April 2024, a groundbreaking change is coming for unpaid carers across the UK. The Carer’s Leave Act 2023 gives employees the legal right to take up to one week of unpaid leave each year to provide or arrange care for a dependent

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The reality of Carers Week

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It’s come to that time of year again where it’s Carer’s Week. The 6th June – 12th June is the national week to raise awareness for carers. This year’s theme is about “making caring, visible, valued and supported” [i]. A large majority of unpaid carers feel they are the invisible workforce, where many give up

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Unpaid carers and the fear of losing themselves

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In 2021, Kate Garraway opened up her husband, Derek, being critically ill in hospital with COVID. Fast forward to 2022, Kate is back on the screen to give us an update on her caring duties and how Derek is getting on. Watch the ITV trailer here. https://vimeo.com/676233148 On the 23rd of March 2021, 4.5 million

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Peer Pressure, Guilt, and Duty

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It’s not uncommon to experience peer pressure and guilt, due to a person’s caring duties The strain as a carer, juggling our jobs, family responsibilities, personal life, and caring duties can leave us feeling guilty for being unable to do it all. The reality is, we can only do so much, and sometimes it can

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