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Partner with Kinship
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Email us to see how we can work togetherWe are Kinship
The leading kinship care charity in England and Wales.
We’re here for kinship carers – friends or family who step up to raise a child when their parents aren’t able to. Often in an unexpected crisis.
By partnering with us, you’ll help us to:
- reach kinship carers at every stage of their kinship journey
- give them the tools they need to navigate a complex, and often confusing, system
- provide them with the information, advice and support they need to provide the best possible care to the child or children they look after
- campaign for fairer services for kinship families
- change lives and change the system
We collaborate with a wide range of trusts, institutions, companies, organisations, schools and local authorities to create the greatest possible impact for kinship carers and the children they care for.
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More than 141,000 children are in kinship care in England and Wales
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1 in 10 kinship carers said their household had run out of food and couldn’t afford to buy more within the last two weeks
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54% of kinship carers said their children had experienced abuse or neglect before coming to live with them (Cost of Loving, 2022)
Read how our partners make a difference
City Bridge Foundation
Find out how City Bridge Foundation has helped us to provide information and advice to kinship carers in London since 2020.
View City Bridge FoundationPeople's Postcode Lottery
Find out how the long-term, flexible funding we’ve received from the People’s Postcode Lottery has made a difference.
View People's Postcode LotteryMeet some of our funders
These are some of our amazing funders, who are helping us to deliver projects and services that are making a difference to the lives of kinship families, and the system.
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.
Become a Kinship Friendly Employer
We set up our Kinship Friendly Employer scheme to provide a free framework and toolkit to help any employer to introduce kinship-friendly policies.
Register for your free toolkit now to receive template policies, checklists, and more.
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There are so many ways to partner with us. Get in touch today and, together, let’s improve the lives of kinship families.
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