After Umbrage makes a return visit to Cambridge to invite unpaid carers to Kingham Cottage and tell them all about the free holiday they can apply for. We visited the Carers Hub in Girton, Cambridge this week. It was a ‘welcome back’ by Laura Horne, Family Carer Coordinator at Caring Together. After Umbrage first met the […]
Meet The Team: Our Social Media Manager Laura Davies
It’s time for Part 4 of our Meet The After Umbrage Team series! And this month we’re introducing you to Laura Davies, who has been running our social media channels for the past four years. Tell us a little about you. I was born in London, grew up in North Somerset and have now returned […]
Meet the After Umbrage Team: Our Marketing Manager, Tracy Wilkinson
At After Umbrage we’ve got a wonderful team of people who give up their time to make sure that we achieve our mission… To provide care for carers. You’ve met our Founder Tara, and now we thought it was about time we introduced you to the other people behind After Umbrage… First up, our lovely […]
“We need to stop taking carers for granted” says The Yorkshire Post. And we agree!
A recent article in The Yorkshire Post reminded us why we do what we do: provide care for carers. In the UK alone there are 1.3 million unpaid carers. And for many of those, caring is a full time job. It absorbs energy, time and money, and causes bucket loads of psychological and physical stress. […]
Compassionate Carers in Cambridge
This week we started our mini tour of Cambridgeshire with The Carers Trust Cambridge, Peterborough and Norfolk (CTCPN) by delivering a wellbeing talk to a lovely group of carers. They gather once a month to spend some quality time with follow carers and to have a safe place to visit with the loved one they […]