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Our Foster Carer stories

To read more about some of our carers and watch their videos, you can click on the stories below. We’ve got carers across England and everyone is on their own journey. The one thing they all have in common is the difference they make to building brighter futures for the children and young people they support. test link

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Becoming a foster carer - blog series by DT

As a newly approved foster carer, DT has written a number of amazing blogs, taking us step by step through the process of becoming a foster carer, right from making that initial decision right through...

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Meet Umrana

From a young age, helping people and caring for others has been part of who I am. I’ve always worked in social development and from that passion, I have nurtured my natural skills and empathy fo...

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Meet Melanie and Ernst

Finding out that we had been accepted at panel was such a great feeling, we were so pleased. Unfortunately, it was lockdown so we couldn’t celebrate properly, but we were over the moon.

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Meet Safeena and Muhammad

We started our fostering journey in 2018. I’ve always worked in childcare and within different roles, some of which were helping children with learning difficulties or disabilities. I remember b...

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Meet Gerlin

My first placement was a child and parent placement with triplets! People don’t often think of fostering in this way, but I have done many parent and child placements over the years and find the...

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Meet Saiqa and Iftikhar

I grew up seeing my mum’s neighbour fostering and I loved watching her care for and then eventually adopt a young girl who lived with them. We were friends and I remember listening to the storie...

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Meet Diane and Nick

We had thought about fostering for many years before we finally took the step, but it never seemed to feel like quite the right time. I have a traveller background and come from a big family, so I&rsq...

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Meet Lisa and Andrew

I always knew I wanted to do something that helped improve other’s lives as I was growing up. I was brought up with my father who was a single parent which was quite unusual back then. I didn&rs...

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Meet Donna and Steve

Our journey began with two little ones whose lives needed lots of patience and nurturing. We had some very happy days and also some not so happy ones, but the children’s progress made every minu...

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Meet Denise and Mark

 The absolute best feeling about fostering is someone putting their arms around you and telling you that they love you. Seeing them achieve and how far they come is so incredibly rewarding as you...

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Meet Phoebe and Dan

After getting married, Phoebe and Dan started to think about what was next for them. They started researching becoming foster carers, found out that they needed spare bedroom, so they moved home, appl...

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Meet The Emmersons

June and Adrian have been approved foster carers with Capstone Foster Care since June 2019, and love being able to open their home to welcome children who need their love and care. Find out their jour...

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Meet Sarah and Tim

Sarah and Tim were approved as foster carers in August 2020. Both have a background in teaching and becoming a foster carer is something that Sarah has always wanted to do. Their first foster child; w...

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Meet Diana

Diana has been a foster carer for over 10 years. Having experienced a happy childhood herself and having worked as a teaching assistant for many years, Diana had always wanted to help children who wer...

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Meet Julie and Michael

Julie and Michael have been fostering for 7 years now. They tell us what motivated them to become foster carers and how seeing the positive changes in the young people in their care and building trust...

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Meet Bev and Sam

Bev has been long-term fostering for Capstone now for 5 years. Bev has worked with children for the majority of her career and has seen first-hand the effects of neglect and abuse in a child’s l...

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Meet Sylvia and Everton

Sylvia and Everton have been fostering for over 10 years and have helped make a difference to many children's lives. Read their story here. 

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Meet Patrick and Sebastian

Patrick and Sebastian started their fostering journey with Capstone during lockdown and are loving fostering so far! Read their story and watch their video here. 

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Meet Denise and Steven

Denise and Steven have been fostering and changing the lives of young people for over 15 years, find out more about their amazing journey here. 

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Meet Julie and Richard

Having adopted two children, Julie and Richard knew that they wanted to make more of a difference to young people’s lives and they decided to foster. They transferred to us and have taken care o...

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Meet Julie and Clive

Using their transferable skills, Julie and Clive are building positive experiences and memories for the children they take care of, whether it be short term or long term.

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Meet Paul and Dean

Paul and Dean had always known that was something wanted do, it was just a matter of when. They’ve now been fostering for 5 years, looked after 8 children through respite, short term, long term ...

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Meet Trisha and Phil

Trisha and Phil knew they would be able to provide a secure home for a child that needed it the most. Using their skills from the social and health care sector they have provided a home for foster chi...

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Meet Amelia and Crispin

Amelia and Crispin decided to foster before beginning their own family and thought long and hard about the fostering process and through Skills to Foster were able to get a sense of the rewarding path...

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Meet Nana Cath

As a single carer, Nana Cath, a retired nurse, fosters a group of 3 siblings. Looking back, she wishes she had started her fostering journey sooner.

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Meet Kerry and Kevin

Kerry and Kevin supported an existing foster carer couple and had gained some experience and insight into becoming a foster carer. Soon after they felt their family were ready to take their journey in...

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Meet Lesley

Fostering has taught Lesley and her husband a lot about themselves and children that find themselves in care. They have supported a number of children of all ages ranging from 9 weeks old through to 1...

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Meet Patricia

Meet Patricia who has been fostering for over 10 years! Patricia has helped support many parent and child placements and has helped them onto independance to start a life of their own. 

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Meet Denise and Andy

Working in health and social care allowed Denise and Andy to use their experience to help children who found themselves in care. Having taken care of siblings in a short term placement, they are looki...

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Meet Margaret and Hugh

Margaret and Hugh have 5 children of their own and decided to foster having enjoyed the role of parenthood. Since 2015, they’ve experienced a variety of placements from bridging to short term fo...

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Meet Liz and Martin

Both Martin and Liz have children from previous relationships, but this didn’t stop them from becoming foster carers. They welcomed a young girl at the of 11 into their home and family and have ...

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Meet Antony and Heather

Antony and Heather were 57 and 53 years old respectively, when they started fostering and the remember thinking they may be too old, turns out this wasn’t the case having looked under children i...

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Meet Abdul and Moriom

Abdul and Moriom have been fostering for over 5 years, having realised the difference they could make to a child’s life. They have looked after 8 children in this time in emergency, short term a...

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Meet Margaret

Single carer, Margaret, cared for a number of her own family members and when her own children left home, she began to explore how she could help children who may not have had the best start in life.

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Meet Samantha and Jamie

Samantha and Jamie started talking early on in their relationship. They got married and had children but the desire to become a family that fostered never left them. They moved so they had 2 spare bed...

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Meet Russell and Vicki

With young children, aged 1 and 2 years old, Russell and Vicki became foster carers. They have had long term placements and short term placements and have also gone on to have two further children of ...

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Meet Keith and Joy

Keith and Joy never had children of their own and believed they had the time, patience warmth and love to give to young people who cannot live with their own families.

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Meet Lin and Richard

Lin and Richard have been fostering for 16 years and enjoy caring for parent and child placements. Read their story and find out you can make a difference to young people's lives too. 

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Meet Nina and Nick

Nina and Nick are based in the North and specialise in Parent and Child placements, they have been with Capstone for many years and are enjoying fostering. Read their story here. 

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Meet Becky and Steve

Becky and Steve had transferrable skills from the jobs as an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teacher and a probation officer and used these skills to help foster children, including una...

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Meet Christian and Christopher

Partners, Christian and Christopher talked about adopting a child but soon realised they wanted to make a difference to as many lives as possible. Having gained experience by being respite foster care...

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Meet Hermione

Hermione is a child of a fostering family and since she began fostering she’s started to treasure her family more, realising that some children don’t have what she’s taken for grante...

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Meet Brian and Julian

Brian and his husband Julian started talking about fostering while sitting around a pool in Cyprus. When they returned to Cyprus a year later, they were sat talking to their young child they had foste...

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Meet Kirsty

Kirsty and her husband have been fostering for over 5 years now which has given them a new perspective on life.

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Meet Abeba and Kiros

Abeba and Kiros gave up their careers as a hairdresser and an engineer to become foster carers and have supported sibling groups as short term and long term placements.

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Meet Kevin and Lisa

Kevin and Lisa along with their children Freya and Callum, wanted to make a positive difference to someone’s life and “that’s a pretty cool thing”.

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Meet Maggie

Maggie wanted to make a difference, and she had explored the idea of setting up her own business to become a child minder before finally deciding to become a foster carer.

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Meet Faruk and Balqees

Fostering had never really crossed the minds of Faruk and Balqees, until one day their son Saqib came home and spoke about it and asked his parents if they would ever consider it.

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Meet Pat and Oliver

Once their adult children had flown the nest, Pat and Oliver from Hertfordshire made an enquiry with Capstone to become foster carers. Within a few months they were making a difference to the lives of...

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Meet Ben and Shelley

Having worked in the care sector and with teenagers, they along with their 2 children and 5 pets became a fostering family.

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Meet Fi and Paul

Fi and Paul have been supported by wealth of knowledge and experience from their social workers leaving them with a smile on their faces.

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Meet Steve

Steve has been a foster carer since 2009, as part of a husband and wife team, and now as a single carer.

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Meet Gemma and Kate

Gemma and Kate have been Capstone foster carers for over a year now and are loving making a difference to young children's lives. 

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Meet Tracey and Michael

Tracey and Michael have been fostering with Capstone for over one year, they currently are caring for a sibling placement and love seeing them both grow up together. 

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Meet Joanne and Ian

Joanne has been fostering with Capstone for over ten years with Ian joining her on her fostering journey a few years ago. Although, they both began their fostering journey with Capstone at different t...

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Meet Georgie and Robin

Georgie and Robin have been together or over 40 years, have 5 children and 22 grandchildren and this provided them with the foundation to foster and change children’s lives through emergency pla...

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Meet Marcus

Marcus has a condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa which can cause visual impairment. Despite his nervousness about applying to become a foster carer, he and his partner Debbie are approved to care fo...

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Meet Trisha

After staring as a foster carer with a local authority, Trisha decided to move to an independent fostering agency who had the same values as she did and who could offer her the support she needed.

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Meet Debbie

Single carer, Debbie was fast approaching her 60th birthday, in full time employment in a highly stressful job, working long hours, but earning a good salary however, she felt something was missing. S...

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Meet Lesley and Chris

Chris and I have been fostering with Capstone since our approval in June 2011.

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