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We are thrilled to announce that Newlands Bishop Farm has been nominated for the prestigious Employers Award at this year’s National Learning Disabilities & Autism Awards. This recognition underscores the farm’s commitment to providing valuable work-based learning opportunities for adults with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. Situated in Solihull, the farm, a part of the Family Care Trust, has been a beacon of support, offering training in areas such as horticulture,…

The Family Care Trust is ‘Highly Commended’ at Disability Smart Awards 2024 The Family Care Trust was highly commended at the Disability Smart Award 2024 for their work to improve the lives of disabled people. The Solihull based charity was highly commended in the Disability Smart Technology category at an awards ceremony in London on 30 April, hosted by Business Disability Forum and held in partnership with Bloomberg. The Disability Smart Technology…

On Wednesday 2nd March fellow Solihull Chamber members CMA Video worked together with the Family Care Trust to create a series of promotional videos showcasing our organisation and the range of care and support services that we provide. (more…)

The Family Care Trust charity is honoured to have been chosen by the following companies and social groups to be their charity of the year for 2016. This is fantastic news! We are so thankful for all of their support :-) (more…)

The Family Care Trust inaugural spooktacular Halloween Charity Pumpkin Ball held at Nailcote Hall on Saturday 31st October was a wonderful success. (more…)

A very big 'Thank You' to David Edwards of Edwards Insurance Brokers for hosting another very successful annual Golf Day event (more…)

  A joint Book Launch of Kate Swaffer and Dr Shibley Rahman was held on Saturday 11th July at the Arlington Centre in Camden, London. "I felt so privileged to have been invited on behalf of the Family Care Trust to attend the joint book launch event in London. The room was full of people who I highly respect and admire" said Caroline Millichamp.   ‘Living Better with Dementia – Good Practice and…

A donation has been awarded from the John Lewis Divisional Community Investment Committee for £3000. The donation is to be used towards our Opportunity Centre and Short Stay Refurbishment project starting the project off by redecorating the Croftbrook memory room and the reception area. This will be a wonderful kick-start for our project. Many thanks to Sara Breen the John Lewis - Solihull Community Liaison Coordinator for all of her help and support throughout the whole nomination process. We are…

We held a Royal Ascot race day at our Croftbrook Opportunity day centre making hats for all of our clients with all of our staff participating and  dressing up for the occasion. There were 8 races for everyone to bet on with prizes of chocolates for the winning bets. There were also champagne & strawberries as an afternoon treat for the special occasion. Everyone had a fantastic day.  

The Friday Drop-In members and some of the people from Dassett Road enjoyed a wonderful trip back in time, when they visited the Black Country Living Museum on Friday 5th June, on what was probably the warmest day of the year so far. Attendees enjoyed taking in all of the historic splendour of the site by visiting the old time shops and attractions, enjoying traditional fish and chips for lunch along with…

We are so thrilled and grateful to have been selected by Lyons Davidson Solicitors - Solihull to be their chosen charity for 2015. We are looking forward to working closely together in partnership to raise vital funds for the Family Care Trust and have lots of fun together while sharing our knowledge and skills together. We thank Lyons Davidson Solicitors - Solihull so much for their support. This is such a wonderful start to our fundraising in…

Lizzie and Nigel Allister the proud owners of a 1962 VW Split Screen Bus, ‘Bumble the Bus’, which is hired for weddings, afternoon tea, events and photo booths are continuing for a second year to support the Family Care Trust as one of their chosen charities of 2015. We are looking forward to working together again with Lizzie, Nigel and Bumble the bus in 2015 on lots of fun fundraising activities. We…

We are very lucky as the Family Care Trust charity to have been selected to be part of the Princes Trust Solihull College Community project scheme with a project to redecorate a room at our Blanning Opportunity Day Centre in Bentley Heath, Solihull to be set up as a 'Reminiscence' room for our clients. The Princes Trust at Solihull College run a team programme of 12 weeks which is for young people aged 16-25.…

Members of the Friday Drop-In group and Ladies from Dassett Road enjoyed a fabulous day out on Friday 21st November, when they went Christmas shopping to the Merry Hill Centre in Dudley. Many of the 40+ people that went on the trip had never visited Merry Hill before and everyone said what a wonderful day they had. As well as crossing off a few items from their wish lists, attendees enjoyed the…

The Family Care Trust Craft Group has been set up as a result of a number of very generous donations of crafting equipment and with the kind support of volunteers giving up their time to make crafts and cards which will be on sale to raise funds for the Family care Trust.