Shared Lives Week
Shared Lives Week is our annual flagship campaign to celebrate the best of Shared Lives and show our gratitude for Shared Lives carers and people supported.
Shared Lives Week 2027 will take place from Monday 21st June – Sunday 27th June.
Reflecting on Shared Lives Week 2026
Webinar – Shout about Shared Lives!
On Thursday 18th June 2-3pm 2026 we hosted a free zoom webinar to ‘Shout about Shared Lives’, raising awareness and inviting as many people as possible to come learn about Shared Lives.
Hosted by Dr Krish Kandiah OBE, a social entrepreneur, CEO, broadcaster, foster carer and Shared Lives carer, alongside speakers with lived experience of Shared Lives – 111 people attended this engaging event.
Catch up on the event below.
“The webinar was really good and it was nice to hear other people's stories and experiences.”
2026 theme
The 2026 theme was Shout about Shared Lives – care worth talking about
- Because great care deserves to be shared
- If more people knew, more lives would change
Shared Lives schemes, Shared Lives households and Shared Lives Plus raised awareness of Shared Lives with the public, the media, local decision makers in adult social care and local MPs, MS, MSP and MLA’s to smash the myths about what it’s like to work in, or draw on social care – so more people can see themselves in a Shared Lives role or match.
We also encouraged everyone involved in (or supporters of) Shared Lives to tell one new person (at least!) about Shared Lives during Shared Lives Week/in the lead-up. Examples:
- Tell a neighbour
- Tell a friend
- Tell an MP/MS/ MSP/ MLA
- Tell a councillor
- Tell someone at a community group
“We really liked the theme, our funders are keen for us to raise the profile [of Shared Lives], so it worked really well.”
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