Carers Share and Shape | Minstead Trust

Supporting each other and shaping the future together

If you would benefit from sharing your experiences and learning from other family carers, our Carers Share and Shape session is for you.

These sessions are informal evening online sessions, created specifically for family carers and will be facilitated by Alice, as part of a research partnership between Minstead Trust and the University of Essex.

These sessions give you the space to chat and share experiences. They will also offer the opportunity to contribute to Alice’s research if you wish to. Your insights will help identify the barriers family carers face and inform better ways of working, both at Minstead Trust and across the wider system.

These sessions are separate from our Online Carers Community, which continues to offer monthly daytime sessions. There, you can connect with others with lived experience, share insights, and develop links that support your caring journey.

Join us for free monthly chats from 6.30 – 7.30pm on.

Come along to as many or as few as you’d like – we’d love to see you whenever you can make it:

Thursday 30 October
Thursday 27 November
Thursday 29 January 2026
Thursday 26 February 2026
Thursday 26 March 2026
Thursday 30 April 2026

During these sessions, you’ll:

Have space to chat and share experiences with other carers
Have the opportunity to contribute to Alice’s research if you wish to

Interested in Carers Share and Shape but can’t make the scheduled session? You’re invited to join our Online Carer Community, which meets at lunchtime on the second Wednesday of each month.