Cocoon, Care After Care

26/10/2026

So proud of Josh ❤️ He has made the most of every opportunity and gives so much to the community.

25/10/2026

🎃 A great evening with members of the Cocoon family getting ready for Halloween 🎃

16/10/2026

🎃 October Cocoon Social!

Care-experienced members of the Cocoon family, we’re getting together for an evening of pumpkin carving, arts and crafts and dinner. Join us!

Send us a message and we can send you the sign up form.

🎃 👻 🦇 🧙‍♀️

25/09/2026

Join us for a special evening as we celebrate 10 years of Cocoon Christmas Day and raise vital funds to make this Christmas our best yet.

Enjoy delicious food from Heavenly Dish plus a raffle and auction with fantastic prizes.

Bring friends or join a team on the night.

TICKETS - https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/cocoon-christmas-day-10-year-anniversary-quiz

18/09/2026

Day 1 of our 3-part employability programme with the brilliant ziza🫀

Participants left with
⭐️ A profile of their personal strengths
⭐️ An inventory of their hard, soft and transferrable skills
⭐️ Ideas about roles and careers to explore further.

I’ve had the huge privilege of knowing Ziza since she was 13 years old and watching her become the incredible force that she is. Wonderful to see the passion she has for helping other young people with similar experiences gain confidence and skills to enter the workforce. What a legend 👏🏽 💐

08/09/2026

Smashed it! 🥳 🚘

The commitment and dedication has paid off and we could not be prouder.

✅ New life skill unlocked

27/08/2026

These two lovely men holding a unicorn spent the day helping declutter and organise the flat of one of the young women we support. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with “stuff” in a 1-bed flat with two growing little ones to take care of. It’s also not easy to get rid of stuff when you don’t drive and don’t want to just put everything in the bin.

The guys did trips to the charity shop, recycling centre and our storage unit (she wanted to pass on good condition items to others).

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers Katie, Matthew and Francis for being there for someone who just needed a bit of friendly and practical support to get back on top of things and feel in control again✨

26/08/2026

I have been hesitant about posting about this as I know we have a lot of care-experienced people that follow us. The independent review published earlier this week by the Department for Education co-authored by Ashley John-Baptiste and Claire Chamberlain is a very difficult read but a very important one. Many of you will have already read about the report or seen it on the news so I’m not going to go into detail, and the report is readily available online.

Listening to Children’s Rights Barrister Carolyne Willow talk on Radio 4, she articulated the problem so well when she said “there is a really unhealthy obsession with independence, getting ready for living life on your own and standing on your own two feet.” This is a terrifying prospect for a young person. No one should have to be fully independent. We all need to feel loved, cared for and connected to people no matter our age.

The care system and other statutory services are never going to be perfect, and neither are organisations like ours. But we must keep trying to do the absolute best we can to be there for our care-experienced community - so they don’t feel alone, so they have time and breathing space to go at their own pace, so they can try things and maybe get them wrong but not have vital support taken away. And they should ALWAYS have someone they can reach out to and people to regularly check in with them who genuinely care.

We promise we will keep trying to do everything we can for care leavers in our community so that no more precious, beautiful, unique lives are lost.

19/08/2026

We have 10 days left to raise £675 in ‘pledges’ so we can secure match funding for our Big Give Christmas Campaign!

If you can help, pledges can be made here https://community.biggive.org/s/pledge?campaignId=a05WS00000GkV4PYAV

Thank you ❤️

Are we the first people to mention Christmas? Doesn’t feel right in the middle of a heatwave but we are already planning for our TENTH (!!) Christmas Day for Care Leavers!

After a successful fundraising campaign last year with the Big Give Christmas Challenge where donations were DOUBLED during 1 week by match funding, we have applied to take part again. For our 10th anniversary we are ambitiously hoping to raise £10,000.

To be accepted for the campaign we need to secure ‘pledges’ from our generous supporters by 28th August. Pledges are promises of donations (at a minimum of £100) used to double all donations made during our live campaign in December.

If you would like to, and are in a position to become one of our pledgers, you can make a pledge here - https://community.biggive.org/s/pledge?campaignId=a05WS00000GkV4PYAV

Even though we need to secure pledges this month, any donations pledged don’t need to be paid until Dec/Jan.

Please get in touch if you have any questions. Thank you so much! 🙏