Scottish charity, Carolina House Trust, commits to supporting staff wellbeing with a strategy linked to national initiatives. Actions to be taken include agreeing to individual Wellness Action Plans, naming Wellbeing Champions and partnering ...
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A World Health Day blog by our Marketing & Recruitment Officer, Nicola Donnelly. Nicola is also a parent carer to her 3-year old son. Nicola writes about how running helps her physical and mental health and is also raising money for a cause ...
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We have enjoyed having Community Education student, Seonaid, on placement with us since the start of the year. Before she finished up we asked her to share her experience of the placement with us. We are delighted she found the virtual placement ...
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For Care Day last month, we asked Naomi (Acting Team Leader of the Foster and Continuing Care Team), what she thought about care. She covers social care, foster care and supporting carers in her answers. What do you think care is? What does ...
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To mark and celebrate World Water Day, we thought we might share some useful water-saving tips and tricks with you! But first here are some Facts and Figures about water use; Did you know that Water covers 70.9 percent of the planet’s surface ...
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Angie’s son stayed home from school one day to confide in his mum that someone in his class was struggling. A regular parent helper at her sons’ primary school, Angie saw for herself the difference foster care had made to the life of that young ...
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Scottish charity, Carolina House Trust, has been looking after children and young people for over 200 years. This month they will make history once again with their first-ever online open day for foster carers. Head of Operations, Sara Lovelock, ...
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CHT Foster Carer Jessie encourages online applicants to make a difference in the lives of young people Four years ago, Jessie was working for a furniture retailer and thinking about changing her career. Needing a change and inspired by her ...
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The CHT environmental group, The Wombles, are working on reducing our individual carbon emissions. How often have you looked at something about reducing emissions and felt ‘that would be fine, but…..’? Too much of it seems to be about big things ...
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Like all organisations striving to be sustainable, Carolina House Trust has a responsibility to positively impact the environment and reduce our contribution to climate change. Amongst the team at CHT, and across our services, we have recognised ...
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