Voluntary adoption agencies across the UK have joined forces to find more adoptive parents for children with additional needs who are waiting for a family. Children with additional needs wait an average of 11 months longer* in care than their peers and voluntary adoption agencies are urgently looking for people who can offer them a…
Voluntary adoption agencies across the UK have come together with a joint mission to stop brothers and sisters who are waiting in care from being separated when adopted. Almost half of children currently waiting in care* are part of a family group and voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs) are looking for people who can offer them…
Chatham based Diagrama Foundation has appointed experienced communications and marketing specialist Tina Morris as Head of Marketing Strategy. Tina Morris, whose experience includes marketing and communications projects for FTSE 100 companies, launching and rebranding the De La Warr Pavilion as an internationally significant art gallery and music venue and working with the multi-million pound Canterbury…
During Foster Care Fortnight, Diagrama Foundation invited their foster carers to a fun family picnic to strengthen their fostering community and thank them for everything they do. On 20 May a group of foster carers joined the Diagrama Fostering and Adoption team for a Hawaiian themed picnic in Croydon. The foster carers, their natural families…
To commemorate International Women’s Day, the charity Diagrama is highlighting some of the many incredible achievements by women who have chosen to foster and change the life of children and young adults. Kristin Nevins share’s her home with her husband Peter, their four biological children and their 11-year-old foster child ‘Jack’. “Our foster son ‘Jack’…
On 2 February the Government released its strategy to transform children’s social care, with ambitious plans that put families at the heart of reform The Adoption and Fostering team at the charity Diagrama has been looking at what the Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy will mean for those who work in the sector. At the…
Chatham based Diagrama Foundation has appointed experienced communications and marketing manager Martin Newton as Head of Marketing Strategy. Newton, from Colchester, Essex, who’s experience includes, marketing consultancy, project managing digital multi-channel campaigns across the public, charity and private sectors and event management joined Diagrama Foundation on 8 August as Head of Marketing Strategy. The role will see Martin directing…
When WWII Veteran Bill Gladden heard that one year old terrier Cody was having a difficult time finding a new home, he offered to help the RSPCA by painting a portrait of the little dog. WWII Veteran Bill Gladden from Haverhill in Suffolk has always loved painting animals and when he heard about Cody, a…
As we approach Mother’s Day, thousands of women across the UK will look forward to celebrating with their children while thousands more will be reminded that they don’t have the family they long for. Sue, 52, knows how awful Mother’s Day was for her, while she spent years trying to have children and although she…