Foster Care Fortnight 2025

The 12th of May marks the beginning of Foster Care Fortnight 2025. Now in its 28th year, the campaign is led by the UK’s leading fostering charity, The Fostering Network, and is the largest foster care awareness campaign nationwide.

Read on to find out more about its aims, this year’s theme, and how you can get involved in Foster Care Fortnight 2025.

Foster Care Fortnight - Raising Awareness of Fostering

Our recent blog highlighted the growing need for foster carers in the UK, and why we need more potential carers to come forward. Foster Care Fortnight is essential in helping to raise awareness of fostering, and encouraging more people to consider fostering in the future.

Foster Care Fortnight is also an excellent opportunity to celebrate our existing foster families, and to ensure they get the support they need to care for our fostered children and young people.

The Power of Relationships in Fostering

Each year Foster Care Fortnight takes a different focus. This year’s theme is: The Power of Relationships.

Relationships make a huge difference in foster care. After all, that’s what fostering is all about - forming bonds, making connections and supporting one another.

The Fostering Network states that:

‘Strong, trusting relationships are the golden thread that runs through every fostering story.’

Here at Olive Branch, we’ve seen for ourselves how powerful bonds and connections can be in fostering, and the difference they can make to everyone involved.

Whether it’s the growing bond between a child and their foster carer, professional relationships between social workers, or the support to be found within the wider fostering community, there are so many ways in which relationships have the power to be transformative.

How to Get Involved in Foster Care Fortnight 2025

There are many ways you can get involved in Foster Care Fortnight this year.

Join In Online

Use the hashtag #FCF25 on social media during Foster Care Fortnight. You might want to share how relationships have shaped and strengthened your fostering journey or give a shout out to those who’ve supported you.

Attend or Organise an Event

You could join in an event locally, or hold one yourself. This could be as grand as a family fun day or an awards ceremony for fostering families or as simple as a coffee morning or a walk around your local park.

Fundraising

Fundraising events can be a great way of raising awareness and helping to fund services for fostering families. The Fostering Network suggests a Foster Walk as a great starting point.

Show Appreciation

Foster Care Fortnight is the perfect time to show appreciation for the foster carers you know. Or if you’re a foster carer yourself, you might want to celebrate a powerful relationship in your life that’s made a difference to your fostering experience, whether it’s the support of your social worker, a family member or someone else who’s had a positive impact on your life.

Strengthen Relationships

Relationships are key in all aspects of fostering, so why not take some time during Foster Care Fortnight to strengthen the relationships in your life? This could be something as simple as having a family movie night, reading a bedtime story to a foster child, or having a coffee and a catch-up with a fellow carer.

Foster Care Fortnight at Olive Branch

Foster Care Fortnight is just one of the many ways we raise awareness at Olive Branch Fostering.

This year’s theme of The Power of Relationships, makes Foster Care Fortnight an ideal time for us to celebrate our wonderful carers, children and young people.

If you’re interested in becoming part of the Olive Branch family, and want to find out more about fostering in the North West, we’d love to hear from you this Foster Care Fortnight.

You can contact us online, call one of our friendly fostering advisors on 01706 558910 or book a callback for a time that suits you.