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Hi,
My name is Sam and I work for The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, working with both adult and young carers from all over the UK. We have two websites - http://www.carers.org for carers over 18 and http://www.youngcarers.net for young carers under 19.
Both communities enable carers to make contact with other people in similar situations to themselves and we know how important this can be to reduce the isolation that many carers feel. We also provide information on a host of topics that are of use to carers.
This week on our communities has been a very busy and exciting one! We have launched ourselves into the world of Twitter so that we can provide followers with quick, helpful updates on items of interest to them - you can join us too at http://twitter.com/CarersTweets.
We also hosted a summer party in our chatroom for young carers where, led by our team of friendly youth workers, our young carers took part in a mixture of games and competitions and even shared imaginary midnight snacks and hot chocolate! Lots of fun was had by all...
Tonight ( Thursday 23rd July ) we are joined in the carers.org chatroom by disability rights activist Eve Rank http://www.carers.org/news/disability-rights-activist-joins-carers-for-online-chat,4823,NW.html so we hope that we'll be able to find out more about the work she does and issues for adults with disabilites and their carers.
I'd be interested to hear any comments from carers on here about what you think web based services can offer you and what the important issues are for you and hopefully I'll be back on here soon with more news!
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