Events

Hundreds of events are happening all around the UK to celebrate Foster Care Fortnight. The Fostering Network has events planned in Cardiff, Glasgow and London to mark the start of the campaign, and fostering services throughout the UK are putting on imaginative events to raise the profile of fostering.

For further details about events organised by the Fostering Network please contact the press office on 020 7620 6441 / 416 or email media@fostering.net

• Foster Care Fortnight 2008 launch in England

  On Monday 12 May guests got together in the spectacular venue of Millbank Tower overlooking central London to launch the new promotional campaign fostering: recognise the qualities you’ve got as part of Foster Care Fortnight 2008.

• Foster Care Fortnight 2008 launch in Northern Ireland

  Foster Care Fortnight in Northern Ireland kicked off at Stormont's Sports Pavilion attended by Minister Michael McGimpsey and one hundred guests comprising of foster families, social workers and representatives from fostering services.

• Foster Care Fortnight 2008 launch in Wales

  Helen Mary Jones AM launched Foster Care Fortnight in Wales at the Welsh Assembly Government Building. The event featured the premiere of Telling My Story, a series of four digital stories produced by care leavers about their experiences of being in foster care.

• Foster Care Fortnight 2008 launch in Scotland

  Foster Care Fortnight in Scotland was launched at Holyrood’s historic Queensberry House in Edinburgh, at an event hosted by Adam Ingram MSP, Minister for Children and Early Years.

• Foster Care Fortnight 2008: UK needs thousands more foster carers this year alone

  More than 5,000 new foster carers must be recruited across the UK during the next year alone in order to provide more children in care with the homes they need, the Fostering Network warned today (12 May).

• Foster Care Fortnight 2008: new campaign asks 'do you have the qualities to foster?'

  A UK-wide recruitment campaign to encourage more people to consider whether they have the qualities needed to foster is being launched by the Fostering Network on Monday 12 May, to coincide with the start of Foster Care Fortnight (12–25 May).

• The Fostering Network Northern Ireland’s Grand Charity Ball 2008

  The Fostering Network Grand Charity Ball 2008 will be held on Friday 9 May 2008 at the Clandeboye Lodge Hotel in Bangor.

• Launch of Foster Care Fortnight in England

  The Fostering Network will be launching Foster Care Fortnight in central London at 11am on Monday 12 May.

• Launch of Foster Care Fortnight in Wales

  The launch of Foster Care Fortnight in Wales will be taking place on Monday 12 May from 11am to 12pm at the Welsh Assembly government building in Cardiff.

• Launch of Foster Care Fortnight in Scotland

  Foster Care Fortnight will be launched in Scotland on Tuesday 13 May. The event is being hosted by Adam Ingram MSP minister for children and early years at the Holyrood Parliament building in Edinburgh, from 10 to 11am.

• Launch of Foster Care Fortnight in Northern Ireland

  Foster Care Fortnight will be launched in Northern Ireland at Stormont’s Sports Pavilion in Belfast, on Monday 12 May from 10am to midday.

• Ready steady go: staff and supporters of the Fostering Network take on Belfast City Marathon

  Fifty-five supporters of Northern Ireland’s top fostering charity will be hitting the streets of Belfast in this year’s City Marathon on Monday 5 May, in an effort to raise funds for its work with foster families.