We are joining up with Caring Together this Christmas to help ease the load for young carers.

Being an unpaid carer can be tough – particularly during the festive period. Many of us are thrown into caring roles, which can cause an immense physical and emotional strain on us. It’s hard to adapt to a circumstance you never saw coming.

You can make a difference in a child’s life.

Caring Togethers’ support for children who are carers is under great demand. Children who are carers, sometimes as young as four, often support a sibling or parent with a physical disability or mental ill-health. Young carers can lead lonely and exhausting lives. Between looking after a loved one, and the pressures of school, they often miss out on opportunities to simply be a child.

Caring Together take these young carers on trips and activities, where they can have fun and feel like a child again. Your donations this Christmas could support these essential young carer trips and help a young carer make memories this Christmas.

“These trips are so important. And I think the biggest difference they make is helping to remove that isolation from a young carer’s life.”

Your donation goes further!

For every £2 you donate, Maxine Lester Team will add another £1, up to a maximum £1,000, so please give and help young carers, particularly if you enjoy our Christmas video!

You can donate here.

In support of this campaign we’ve created a video Christmas card – enjoy!