Welcome to our guest blog by Rosie Buckley. Rosie is a creative copywriter with a flare and focus on being a health advocate. When she’s not out and about chasing her dog, you can find her typing away her next angle at her desk. Here she explains why respite breaks are what families need. It can […]
Tracy answers 10 questions to celebrate our anniversary
Getting to know our team Up next in our series of ’10 questions to celebrate 10 years’ of After Umbrage is Tracy. She is our Marketing Manager and has been part of the team since Spring 2017. The charity sector has been her home for the past 10 years and she enjoys storytelling. Her favourite […]
Random Act of Kindess Day
The 17th February is Random Act of Kindness Day. It’s a day when we are encouraged to perform kind gestures – for no other reason than to help brighten someone’s day. Why are we celebrating this day? Kindness is a core value of After Umbrage. It makes perfect sense for us to mark this day […]
Six families awarded free breaks
Kingham Cottage welcomes carers for a free break
Join us on World Smile Day
The smiley face we all know, love and use constantly with our messages to friends and loved ones was created in 1963 by an American man called Harvey Ball from Massachusetts. His concern to keep the meaning of the smiley face authentic – rather than commercialised – brought him to the idea of World Smile […]