Carers Week

Carers Week takes place in June each year. Thousands of events and activities take place throughout the UK to highlight and celebrate the contribution that carers make.

From June 8th - 13th 2009

• Carers UK teamed up with Lloyds Pharmacy to offer free health checks to carers.
• Phil Hope MP, Minister for Carers, and Jonathan Shaw MP from the Department of Work & Pensions, joined carers for a Carers Week online Q+A event. more...

The carers week website is www.carersweek.org

Carers Week is run by a partnership of ten charities :

• Carers UK
• Counsel and Care
• Crossroads Caring for Carers
• Independent Age
• Macmillan Cancer Support
• MS Society
• Parkinson's Disease Society
• The Princess Royal Trust for Carers
• Vitalise
• WRVS