Respite trips

Each year we have a variety of respite trips; at Easter, during the October holidays, in the summer and a Christmas trip to Edinburgh in December. We choose which activity we want to do each time. Some of the activities which we have a so far done include; horseriding, swimming, quad biking, paintballing, ice skating, we have been rollerbowling, shopping, seen films, eaten out in a variety of places, seen the Christmas lights in Edinburgh and visited Landmark and been on the activities there. During the summer holidays we also do some art workshops which have involved making an animation film about being a young carer, making a music jingle for advertising young carers on the local radio. Since 2009 we have been to the Young Carers festival in West Linton, near Edinburgh which has been great fun.