Carers Week 2025: Recognising and Supporting Carers Nationwide
This Carers Week, Forward Carers is proud to stand alongside unpaid Carers across our commissioned services and beyond, celebrating their vital role and calling for greater recognition, support, and community understanding.
Carers Week is a national awareness campaign that shines a spotlight on the millions of unpaid Carers who look after loved ones due to illness, disability, mental health conditions or older age. Often unseen and undervalued, these individuals play an essential role in keeping families together and reducing pressure on our health and social care systems.
This Year’s Theme: “Putting Carers on the Map”
The 2025 theme, ““Caring About Equality” Highlighting the inequalities faced by unpaid Carers, including a greater risk of poverty, social isolation, poor mental and physical health. Too often, Carers are overlooked; at work, in healthcare, and in wider society. This year, the campaign urges organisations, employers, and community groups to take meaningful action to ensure Carers are recognised, respected, and supported wherever they live.
Why Carers Week Matters
Across the UK, over five million people are quietly caring for a family member or friend, often while juggling paid work, parenting responsibilities or their own health needs. Many do not recognise themselves as a “Carer,” which means they often go without the vital support and information available to them.
Forward Carers works year-round to improve the lives of unpaid Carers through practical advice, wellbeing activities, emergency planning, Carer assessments and our Carer Friendly Communities initiative. Carers Week offers opportunity to raise awareness, spark conversations, and connect Carers to support they may not realise exists.
A Full Week of Carer-Focused Events
To mark Carers Week 2025, we’re delivering a fully packed calendar of events and activities across the country in our commissioned service areas, and we have some online events scheduled too which are open to all! There’s something for everyone – whether you’re new to caring or have been doing it for years.
Join the Movement
Whether you’re a Carer, a local business, a health professional or a community partner, we invite you to get involved. Help us put Carers on the map- not just for one week, but every day of the year.
To find out more about Carers Week and how Forward Carers can support you or someone you know, visit:
