Useful Contacts

Local organisations

Carers Gloucestershire
Carers Gloucestershire is an independent, carer led charitable organisation that seeks to empower carers across the county to promote their rights and enable them to make positive choices to improve the quality of their lives.

Telephone: 01452 386283

Gloucestershire Young Carers
Gloucestershire Young Carers is a support network for young carers across the county. They work with young carers to ensure that service providers understand their needs and respond appropriately.

Telephone: 01452 733060

Herefordshire Carers Support
Herefordshire Carers Support aims to ensure carers are universally recognised as fundamental to the communities they live in and  that there is a balance between their caring responsibilities and their lives outside their caring role.

Telephone: 01432 356068

National organisations

Carers UK
Carers UK is a charity set up to help millions of people who care for family or friends

Telephone: 0808 8087777

The Carers Trust

A charity for, with and about carers which works to improve support services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring, unpaid, for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or who has mental health or addiction problems.

Telephone: 0844 800 4361