The Princess Royal Trust for Carers will be featured on the BBC Lifeline Appeal BBC One on Sunday 19th June. Tune in at 4:45 pm in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and at 5:15 pm in Scotland.
For over twenty years, BBC Lifeline has helped raise money and increase the profile of hundreds of charities across the UK and abroad.
The appeal will be a unique opportunity to tell people about the work of The Trust and why they need more support for the UK's unpaid Carers. www.carers.org / www.youngcarers.net
Marking Carers Week 2011, actress Pam Ferris (Matilda, Rosemary and Thyme) makes an impassioned appeal to raise funds for The Princess Royal Trust for Carers. Speaking from personal experience, Pam Ferris describes the isolation and lack of support carers can face, having been one herself for the last years of her mother's life. The film features an exclusive interview with The Trust's president, HRH Princess Anne.
One in 10 people in the UK are carers - looking after a loved-one who is sick, disabled, suffering from a mental health problem or an addiction - some carers are as young as five years old. What carers have in common is the selflessness to put their family members' needs before their own, but they face an on-going life of isolation, ill-health and poverty.
A lifeline for hundreds of thousands of carers across the UK.
For 20 years, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers has been fighting to provide carers with the support they so desperately need. The Trust understands that few of us plan to become carers, so when a caring role starts, every carer needs an expert to guide them through the maze of services, rules and entitlements. For a carer, this can make the difference between keeping and losing their job, or between staying healthy and collapsing under the stress.
At the heart of The Trust is a unique network of 144 independently-managed Carers' Centres, 89 young carers' services and interactive websites (www.carers.org and www.youngcarers.net) which deliver around the clock support to over 424,000 carers and approximately 25,000 young carers. Today we are the largest provider of carer support in the UK offering unique and innovative services.
How you can care for the carers?
With an ageing population, the UK will need more care from families and friends in the future. This is an issue that will touch everyone’s life at some point and The Trust aims to be there for every carer.
The Trust relies almost exclusively on voluntary donations to sustain their work. This is why your support is vital. They need you to help them to provide services like www.youngcarers.net, support their local Carers' Centres and develop new services, so that they continue to reach many more of the UK’s unpaid, unsupported and often unidentified carers.
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers
Please tune in tomorrow (Sunday 19th June, 2011) at 4.45pm (England) - BBC One.
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