Partner with Kinship

Thanks to funding from BBC Children in Need, our Young Champions project works with care experienced teenagers in six North London boroughs – Barnet, Haringey, Enfield, Islington, Hackney, and Camden.

The aim of the project is to help the young people involved to improve their communication skills, increase their confidence as well as to improve their emotional wellbeing.

At Kinship, we’re committed to changing the system for kinship carers.

Thanks to funding from Comic Relief, our Kinship Campaigners are focused on creating a fairer system for kinship carers and a step-change in support for kinship families.

They’re achieving this through local and national campaigning, strategic communications and influencing activities such as our #ValueOurLove campaign.

With funding from the Cripplegate Foundation, we have increased our grants officer’s hours to provide more support to kinship families in the London borough of Islington. They work in partnership with both local and national grant-making bodies to secure grants for household items as well as items for children such as toys, beds and school uniforms.

They have also funded Support for Islington Families. This project focuses on delivering peer-to-peer group support, recruiting Kinship Campaign Champions who volunteer to raise awareness of Kinship’s work in the community, campaign on issues affecting kinship families and connect with local services and community groups.

Our Someone Like Me service has been expanded, thanks to funding from The Mercers Company.

Someone Like Me connects kinship carers with trained volunteers, who are current or former kinship carers. Over three calls, kinship carers can get the emotional support they need, without judgement.

In addition to Someone Like Me, The Mercers Company has funded Walk with Me – a pilot project to bring together kinship carers to ‘walk and talk’, helping benefit both their physical and mental wellbeing.

The Prudence Trust funds Kinship Minds, which is a three-year project to embed therapeutic approaches across our work.

The recruitment of a Therapeutic Practitioner will ensure that our one-to-one peer support programmes, training workshops and interactive resources for kinship carers will all have therapeutic approaches at their heart.