Forward Carers CIC

Forward Carers is a West Midlands based award-winning social enterprise committed to creating ‘Carer Friendly Communities’. This radical new approach to Carer support brings whole communities together to make life better for Carers. Unpaid Carers are amazing people who support someone who relies on them due to a disability, illness or frailty.

We work in partnership with other not-for-profits to provide a wide-range of free advice, support and wellbeing services that make a real difference. As the lead partner of Birmingham Carers Hub, we work with 16 delivery partners to support over 18,000 Carers based in Birmingham.

Through our Carer Friendly Communities programme, we deliver the national Carer Friendly ID and Discount Card, and we support organisations to become Carer Friendly spaces that welcome customers who are unpaid Carers. We also support employers to create Carer Friendly Workplaces where employees juggling paid work and an unpaid caring role can thrive, via Carer Aware training and our Carer Friendly Employer Commitment Mark