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Welcoming back our Kinship Carers Cooking Club!
As the new school year has begun and we all come out of the emotional period of national mourning following the passing of her majesty...
Sep 22, 20221 min read
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Managing School Transitions
Like many of you, we’re managing some big emotions with our little people right now with the end of the school year coming up. Having...
Jul 1, 20223 min read
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The Need for a 'Reset' in Children's Social Care
There’s been a lot of revelations in Children’s Social Care recently- both with the horrors coming to light from Calcot Services...
Jun 24, 20222 min read
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Kinship Carers Cooking Club Jubilee Tea
We’re still buzzing from the extra long bank holiday weekend! To celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we held an in-person Kinship...
Jun 10, 20222 min read
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Kinship Carers Cooking Club Update!
Since starting Kinship Hub, the Kinship Carers Cooking Club has been at the heart of the business. Through weekly cooking sessions, we’ve...
May 27, 20221 min read
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Energy-Saving Meal Ideas and Cooking Tips
Following on from our energy-saving webinar held last month, in the build up to the school May half-term, and the upcoming national...
May 20, 20223 min read
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Community Connections Lewisham Networking Event
After a busy week, we’re so excited to share with you about our day yesterday- we had our biggest Kinship Kitchen catering job to date!...
May 13, 20222 min read
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Announcing Our Newest Partnership- Kids Kitchen!
We’re so happy to announce that our newest partnership arrangements have been finalised! Starting this month, we’re working on a special...
May 6, 20222 min read
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Family Menu Inspiration for this Bank Holiday Weekend
With the first May bank holiday upon us and the nights getting longer, we’ve started to spend more time outside. Our thoughts have moved...
Apr 29, 20222 min read
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Energy Crisis- Impact on Kinship Carers and Things You Can Do
With the recent increase in energy prices, along with all other increases we’re all facing, we decided to get some advice from a National...
Apr 22, 20224 min read
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Partnerships
Here at Kinship Hub, we’d be lost without our partnerships with other amazing local businesses. We couldn’t do what we do without joining...
Apr 8, 20223 min read
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Kinship Hub Webinars
Here at Kinship Hub, we believe knowledge is power. We try to do what we can to help empower kinship carers and their families to do...
Apr 1, 20222 min read
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What our families are saying about Kinship Carers Cooking Club
We love our Kinship Carers Cooking Club, but don't just take our word for it. Find out what Kinship families think about the cooking club...
Mar 25, 20222 min read
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Our Employability Program
While it’s been a dream from the beginning for our founder, Anna-Lou, our Employability Program launched in Feb 2022 with it’s first...
Mar 18, 20223 min read
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A spotlight on the rest of our fabulous programs!
As Kinship Hub grows over time, and in response to the needs of our kinship carers, we’ve become more than just the Kinship Carers...
Mar 11, 20222 min read
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Kinship Carers Cooking Club
The Kinship Carers Cooking Club launched in January 2020, as a small South-east London community group. The idea was simple: meet once a...
Mar 4, 20223 min read
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How Kinship Carers Hub was Born- by Anna-Lou, Founder/Director
I felt frustrated and outraged that more wasn’t being done to support kinship carers, and constrained in my ability to help within my statut
Feb 25, 20223 min read
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How do Kinship Care placements happen?
The three main routes into Kinship Care:
1. Care Proceedings
2. CIN/CP
3. Private Family Arrangement
Feb 11, 20223 min read
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Why are Kinship Carers Important?
By stepping in to look after children of their family or friends, kinship carers offer children an opportunity to be raised within their...
Feb 4, 20221 min read
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Who are Kinship Carers?
A kinship carer is anyone who cares full time and long term for a child who is not their biological child, but who they have a meaningful...
Jan 27, 20221 min read
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