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Share your experiences and chat with other older grandparents who are looking after kinship children.

Run by a kinship carer, for all kinship carers in Lincolnshire. The group aims to provide support, information and a network to answer questions members have about kinship care that they don't receive from professionals. They meet in person once a month and have a Facebook page and a group chat. Their other aim is for our children to be able to meet, play and make friends with other kids in the same situation as them and they raise money to help all members on days out to create forever memories with their families

This online group is for kinship carers in East Lancashire to come together and share experiences and peer support.

Come along to meet with other kinship carers looking after their nieces and nephews.

A space for male kinship carers to come together each month.

Want to meet with other kinship carers in your area? For kinship carers from Cheshire to Cumbria and across to Manchester.

Want to meet with other kinship carers in your area? For kinship carers from Cornwall, to Bristol and across to Bournemouth.

Come along to meet other kinship carers looking after pre-school and primary aged children.

Meet other kinship carers who are also looking after teenagers.

Meet other kinship carers to talk about the importance of racial identity, culture and heritage.

Meet other kinship carers whose lives are affected by someone’s drug or alcohol misuse.

This is a space for kinship carers who have experienced a feeling of loss for the life they left behind.

This group is led by a kinship carer and supported by a Kinship volunteer coordinator. The group is open to all kinship carers and those thinking about becoming a kinship carer in Preston and the surrounding areas. There is currently a WhatsApp group, with the potential for in-person meets if people are interested.

This group is led by the local authority and is open to all kinship carers in Cumbria. They run informal coffee mornings for kinship carers to meet other carers in similar situations to themselves for friendship, advice and support. These alternate between Kendal and Carlisle but they are also looking at other areas of Cumbria to run the coffee mornings.

This is a space for kinship carers who have experienced bereavement.

This group is led by Kinship staff and is open to all kinship carers in Islington. The group is a safe space for kinship carers to get together and talk to other carers. We give one to one support to carers who are having issues around kinship care.

A group run by Families in Harmony open to kinship carers of African, Caribbean or Black Mixed Heritage in South London, Kent and Surrey

This group is led by Families in Harmony, an organisation run by kinship carers. The group is open to kinship carers of African, Caribbean or Black Mixed Heritage in North London, West London and Essex. We also welcome kinship carers who are non-black, but caring for a Black or Black mixed heritage kinship child. We offer peer support through cultural food/activities/celebrations, advocacy and therapeutic parenting training.

Want to meet with other kinship carers in your area? For kinship carers in the Midlands.

This group is led by a Kinship volunteer who is a kinship carer themselves. The group is open to all kinship carers and special guardians in Bedfordshire. This group brings kinship carers and special guardians together to have a chat. It is an online group, that uses the platform Zoom. It is led by special guardian, Amanda.

This group is led by a Kinship volunteer who is a kinship carer themselves. The group is open to all kinship carers in Cheshire East. Our group is open to all kinship carers, including regulation 24 carers, carers going through court, special guardians before and after applying, and kinship foster carers. The group helps give carers, or potential carers, the drive to fight for their needs.