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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.

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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 differen...

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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 ...

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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 ha...

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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 childre...

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Meet Nicky and James

Although Nicky and James had children of their own, they had always thought about fostering and were open about with their sons. It was during the Syrian refugee crisis that they made the choice to...

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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 car...

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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 ...

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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 lo...

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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...

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Meet Marina and Paul

Marina and Paul decided to foster after their own children left home and while they enjoyed the new freedom that that gave them, they felt it was the right time to open their home up to fostering.<...

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Meet Tim and Michelle

Working with a local charity, Chernobyl Children’s Project and the support they provided to children after treatment, Tim and Michelle started to consider whether they could become foster car...

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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 ...

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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 p...

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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 ter...

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Meet Linda and David

Linda and David, with their two daughters, made the decision to become foster carers as they had a spare bedroom. Within 4 months they became approved foster carers and have looked after many child...

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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 lif...

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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 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 ...

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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 te...

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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...

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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 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 Jenny and Ian

When Ian met Jenny, he knew her heart was set on becoming a foster carer, so he was supportive. Along with their daughter, they’ve been fostering for 7 years now and it’s been a positiv...

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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 ...

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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...

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Meet Jonathon and Melchi

After Jonathon and Melchi travelled across Asia they were shocked and saddened by the poverty and exploitation to children in particular.

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Meet Janice

Having thought that fostering, Janice always thought it would be something she looks into later on in her life. By chance, she bumped into our team at a local marketing and now she’s an appro...

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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 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...

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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 t...

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Meet Gurdip and Harjit

Gurdip and Harjit knew it was important for their whole family to be part of the decision-making process to become a fostering family. They also knew that the help and support they received would m...

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Meet Mascha and David

With one daughter studying abroad and another about to fly the nest, Mascha and David felt the time was right to take a new direction. Fostering was that direction they were looking for.

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Meet Debbie and Rachel

Partners Debbie and Rachel wanted to offer their hearts and home to someone in need and it has changed their lives for the better.

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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 c...

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Meet Sally and Chris

Sally and Chris fostered with a local authority before transferring to Capstone Foster Care, having experienced the quality and dedication shown by the team to make the right placements for childre...

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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 gra...

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Meet Arlene

Arlene took early retirement, which was great for while however, she soon started to wonder what her purpose was. She realised her purpose was to become a foster parent and make a difference by pro...

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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 fo...

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Meet Clive and Bev

Having supported adults with learning difficulties in their own homes, Clive and Bev started to enquire about fostering when their own children had flown the nest.

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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 Giane and Graham

Giane and Graham were apprehensive at first but found the support and guidance they needed to become approved as foster carers at Panel.

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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...

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Meet Michelle and Mark

Michelle and Mark became foster carers over 5 years ago and have supported a young person all the way through to independence.

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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 Lesley and Chris

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

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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 differen...

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