Connecting With Our Roots in GL4
Our fostering charity started right here in GL4 and has spread far and wide thanks to the amazing support of local residents like you! Help us continue changing lives in GL4 and beyond.
Putting the Community at the Heart of Foster Care
For nearly 30 years, Community Foster Care has been supporting children in Gloucester to find loving homes where they can thrive. When the charity was first set up in 1997, the core mission was to do fostering differently; to empower local communities who’d never even considered themselves eligible, to explore their potential and see the opportunities fostering could bring for them and local children.
The team literally knocked on doors across GL4 and asked people if they would consider becoming a foster carer. And once people knew they wouldn’t be expected to do it alone - that they’d have a community of support around them - and that they’d be trained in essential skills and paid fairly for this important role - more and more people said ‘yes’ and so Community Foster Care was born.
Things may have changed over 30 years, but our core mission of doing fostering differently, empowering local communities, and ensuring all children can grow up in loving homes in their local area is still at the core of what we do. And being immersed in the local community is just as important to us today as it was back then, which is why you might have seen our team roaming around handing out leaflets, attending events, and talking to local groups and residents - because we still firmly believe community should be at the heart of fostering in Gloucester.
Help Keep Local Children Local
We are still firm in our mission to help keep local children local by empowering residents in Gloucester to recognise their potential as a foster carer. Could this be you?
What are we looking for from our foster carers?
Alignment with our values
A spare room (or rooms)
Open to challenge and ability to be critically reflective
Team player, who can work effectively with the professional network
Evidence of being mentally resilient and tenacious
Experience of working with or caring for young people
In practical reach of a Community Foster Care office
Commitment to ongoing development and growth
Interested in learning more? Our Fostering Information Pack is a good place to start if you have questions and to check out our values to see if we would be a good match for one another. Then, if you’re ready, we’d love to have a chat on the phone - simply fill out the form below and we will be in touch!
“I used to work in schools and saw so many children in desperate need of stability and a safe place to call home. Witnessing that on a daily basis made me think that if I felt that strongly, maybe I could do something about it.”
Maggie, CFC Foster Carer
Ready to learn more? Get in touch via the form below to organise an informal chat with our team - no pressure, just an opportunity to ask whatever’s on your mind.
Contact us.
Whether you have a specific question or just want to get more information about fostering in general, get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.