Carers Week 8th-14th June 2026
Creating Carer Friendly Communities
Published: 08/06/2026
Carers Week - 8th - 14th June 2026
This Carers Week (8th - 14th June 2026), we honour our Carers at Right at Home, and carers around the UK, recognising both the impact of their role and the challenges they face.
Carers Week is an annual campaign that raises awareness of those in unpaid caring roles, and highlights the difficulties that caring without support can bring.
Who Is a Carer?
According to research from The Health Foundation, 1 in 6 of all UK adults - equivalent to 8.9 million people - provided unpaid care between 2023-2025, with the true number expected to be higher as not all unpaid carers identify as such. With such a high number of UK adults acting as unpaid carers, it is vital that we implement more carer friendly measures into our communities.
This year’s Carer’s Week theme is Building Carer Friendly Communities, and aims to highlight the impact that having a carer friendly community can have on the wellbeing of unpaid carers.
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1 in 6 of all UK adults - equivalent to 8.9 million people - provided unpaid care between 2023-2025
What Makes a Community Carer Friendly?
Communities can become carer friendly in places, spaces and groups by prioritising recognising, understanding and valuing unpaid carers. These communities make supporting unpaid carers part of everyday life, empowering carers to live fulfilling lives and taking action to identify and support carers in practical ways. This means that carers have better access to opportunities and improve their quality of life.
Here are some suggested changes that Carers Week recommend:
- Business and services – making everyday tasks easier for carers by offering flexible or priority access.
- Community – sports clubs, faith groups, or community organisations creating opportunities for carers to feel connected.
- Education – schools, colleges, or universities identifying young and young adult carers and putting support in place to help them reach their potential.
- Health – GP practices, pharmacies or health services raising awareness amongst their staff to help identify and connect carers to support.
- Social care – taking a whole-family approach to ensure everyone gets the help they need.
- Work – offering flexible working to support employees to juggle paid work and caring.
Carers Week 2026
This year, Carers Week recommends focusing on a different area of the community everyday, identifying and implementing changes that can be made to improve spaces for carers.
- Monday – Health
- Tuesday – Social care
- Wednesday – Work
- Thursday – Education
- Friday – Business and services
- Saturday – Community
- Sunday – Reflections on Carers Week
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