Skip to the content
Choose your content
UK NI Scotland Wales

Join us Login Forum Media enquiries
Choose your content
UK NI Scotland Wales

Carers Week 8-14 June

Carers Week is here. Join us in celebrating and recognising unpaid carers across the UK, and help build more carer-friendly communities.

Visit the Carers Week website to find out more about this year's campaign and how you can get involved. Then click the button below to watch a special message from Helen Walker, Chief Executive of Carers UK, as she kicks off Carers Week 2026.

Latest updates

News

Watch: Kirsten Hogg's message for Carers Week 2026

Kirsten Hogg, Director of Devolved Nations at Carers UK, is sharing her reflections on this year's theme, Building Carer Friendly Communities,…

Read

Press Release

A pivotal moment - Carers UK responds to Government consultation on workplace rights for unpaid carers

Response to Government consultation on Carer's Leave 

Read

Report

Building Carer Friendly Communities report

Carers UK and Carers Week supporter charities have published new research exploring carer friendly communities and the action need to bring ab…

Read

Become a member

Joining Carers UK is free and takes just a few minutes

You will receive the latest news, information, campaign updates, access to our user forum and more...

Talking to other carers on the forum is great. I've gained so much useful information from Carers UK

Mary from Bedford

Back to top