Suffolk Family Carers is celebrating its 20 Year Anniversary in 2007/2008 and eg:consulting are directing their fundraising and communications campaign. We invited Joanna Lumley to be their Patron for this special year which commenced with securing £25,000 of funding from Barclays for the 'Family Carers into Learning' project and culminates in a Cathedral Service and Festival during Carers Week in June 2008.

The 18 month assignment has been fast moving with a media partnership with The Advertiser/Mercury series reaching 290,000 readers with regular articles and updates; a Newmarket racecourse fundraising event: £45,000 of funding from the Heritage Lottery for a ‘Caring through Time’ exhibition showing the personal histories of Family Carers and charting progress in Suffolk from the post war period; a Carers’ Gallery of images of Family Carers taken by Elizabeth Handy with text provided by management thinker Charles Handy.

A very special Annual Review has been produced. There is £400,000 of funding applications pending. This has been an exciting and vibrant project for us and we look forward to our work continuing with this great team that supports people who are caring for others at home.