The Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of John Ivers and Mick Pratt as Trustees for the Foundation. In his role as Chief Operating Officer at CareTech Holdings plc, John Ivers leads the Adults, Children’s, Specialist and Learning Services Divisions which have had a period of sustained and substantial growth with a focus on […]
Promoting mental health awareness in Pakistan
Karachi: 31 January 2019: The British Deputy High Commission, Karachi, in partnership with the British Asian Trust, CareTech Foundation and COSARAF Charitable Foundation hosted a screening of the movie Cake to raise awareness of mental health in Pakistan. Sayed Zulfiqar Bukhari, the movie’s producer and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister and Minister of State […]
Creating a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement
The Foundation’s CEO Jonathan Freeman was recently invited to join the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion working group of the Association of Charitable Foundation‘s Stronger Foundations programme. Jonathan was recently invited to contribute a blog piece on the Foundation’s new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statement, which you can read here.
Michael Hill
It is with huge sadness that the Foundation learned of the tragic death on Sunday of our Treasurer and Trustee Michael Hill. Michael was instrumental in the establishment of the Foundation and a passionate champion of our work. Michael’s contribution to the Foundation will be very much missed and his fellow trustees are devastated at […]
Foundation launches new Staff Hardship Fund
Speaking at the CareTech Care Awards 2018, Foundation CEO Jonathan Freeman announced the launch of the Foundation’s latest grant funding stream, a Staff Hardship Fund for current and recent staff of CareTech PLC suffering significant financial hardship. Jonathan stated: “This last year, the three of us in the Foundation team have visited services up and […]
Foundation publishes new case study film to mark a year of impact!
Speaking at the CareTech Care Awards 2018, Foundation CEO Jonathan Freeman set out some of the achievements of the Foundation over the last year, showing the Foundation’s new film highlighting examples of the impact that some of our Family and Friends grants and Match Fund grants have made. In the last 12 months, Jonathan explained […]
New partnership between CareTech and EY Foundation offers bright future for care leavers
In a first for the care sector, the CareTech Foundation is partnering with social mobility charity EY Foundation to create programmes which promote careers within the care sector and help care leavers fulfil their potential by moving successfully into further education and employment. Only 6% of young people in care go on to further education […]
Foundation Advisory Board member Saeed Atcha appointed to key social mobility role
The Foundation is delighted that Advisory Board member Saeed Atcha has been appointed to become a Social Mobility Commissioner. Saeed was one of twelve new members appointed to the Social Mobility Commission appointed by Damian Hinds MP, Secretary of State for Education, following a public appointments recruitment process. The Social Mobility Commission monitors progress towards […]
World Mental Health Day 2018
Today marks the WHO World Mental Health Day, which this year focuses on ‘Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World’, an issue very close to the CareTech Foundation’s mission as well as central to much of the work of our founder company CareTech plc. We asked two of the CareTech plc team to […]
CareTech Foundation supports very first Care Sector Fundraising Ball as headline supporter
The CareTech Foundation, alongside its corporate founder CareTech plc, was the headline supporter of the inaugural Care Sector Fundraising Ball held at Park Lane’s prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel on Saturday 29th September. The sell-out event organised by Hallmark Care Homes in association with Care England raised a staggering £140,000 for Alzheimer’s Research UK and The […]