Our Stories

Somerset Council and its partners, Homes2Inspire (part of Shaw Trust) and NHS Somerset are celebrating after winning ‘Innovation in Partnerships,’ a prestigious Municipal Journal (MJ) Award for the trailblazing Homes and Horizons children’s home project. The MJ awards is the...

We are absolutely delighted to share that Shaw Trust will be trading at the  UK's first ever multi-charity shop ,  Charity Super.Mkt , in Brent Cross shopping centre. This is a really exciting venture for Shaw Trust, and provides a ...

We are delighted to celebrate our 40th anniversary with this unique art exhibition celebrating the creativity of care-experienced individuals at Shaw Trust. They have all been created by care-experienced young people we support in our Homes2Inspire Children’s Homes, our Fostering2Inspire...

Shaw Trust is deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of Her Majesty The Queen, announced today by Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty served the Nation and the Commonwealth selflessly for over 70 years, demonstrating the very highest values...

The Homes2Inspire team have recently facilitated an empowered shopping experience at their furniture provider in Bicester on 22 June, which was attended by three care experienced young people and the Voice of the Child – Participation & Engagement Officer for Somerset....

The secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, has written an open letter to our "brilliant colleagues in social care" recognising the hard work and sacrifice of staff in the sector, like our staff team...

Homes2Inspire, working with Shaw Education Trust, has won a groundbreaking key strategic contract to deliver support to young people in Somerset. The contract reflects who we are as a child to career charity and will be worth more than £60...

Homes2Inspire utilise NSPCC training to upskill staff during pandemic I read a really interesting article recently that stated that a third of youth worker's felt they are not trained to sufficiently to deal with the online risks children face. If...

Some of our colleagues share their stories Our colleagues Bethany, Vanessa and Linda share their stories on working for Homes2Inspire. ...

Homes2Inspire have been successful in bidding to partner Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) for an exciting new facility to provide care and accommodation for vulnerable young people at Trevone House in Gloucester. Homes2Inspire have been awarded the contract for 7 years...

This month (23 July 2020) Ofsted published data about residential children’s care homes. For the first time Homes2Inspire is ranked in the top 10 largest private and voluntary children’s homes providers, as at March 2020, with 27 homes. Paul Cook,...

Character education is firmly on the government’s agenda. Throughout the last few years there have been a number of policy announcements in this area, including character education’s newly found prominence in Ofsted’s Education Framework.  In recent times, there has been a clear tension and...

Wendover House encourage the children in placement to become active members of the local community, to further their personal development and allow them to build life skills. The children are able to embed themselves within the local community by taking...

600,000 pupils are due to leave school this year at a time when exams have been cancelled and job vacancies are at the lowest level in 10 years. The Covid-19 crisis has had a disproportionate effect on young people with...

As we enter a further week of lockdown I would on behalf of Homes2Inspire’s Senior Leadership Team like to express our thanks, gratitude and admiration for the amazing work, dedication and commitment of all our staff and foster carers. This...

Since my last message the Government have announced a further period of ‘lock down’ to restrict the spread of this virus and protect the NHS.  I am sure I echo everybody’s continued gratitude and admiration for the work of the...

The UK risk level of Coronavirus is assessed as moderate, however, the risk to individuals remains low. At Homes2Inspire we are continuing to follow advice from the World Health Organisation, our national public health bodies and government. Precautionary measures are...

The UK risk level of Coronavirus is assessed as moderate, however, the risk to individuals remains low. At Homes2Inspire we are continuing to follow advice from the World Health Organisation, our national public health bodies and government. Precautionary measures are...

Since my last message the situation in the Country has worsened and new measures have been put in place by the Government to restrict the spread of this virus and protect the NHS, I am sure everybody is full of...

At these unprecedented and challenging times H2I staff will continue to go the extra mile to support the children and young people we look after and each other.  I cannot commend highly enough the dedication and commitment of our staff...