GIVE MONEY

Online: DONATE HERE

The Princess Royal Trust for Carers www.carers.org - and young carers, www.youngcarers.net

Telephone line: 0845 270 0336.

Lines are open from 8am to 9pm Monday to Friday, from 10am to 4pm on Saturday, and from 10am to 7pm on Sunday. At other times callers will be able to leave a message or hear other details of payment.

By post: Send a cheque made payable to The Princess Royal Trust for Carers to: The Sunday Times Appeal c/o The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, Unit 14, Bourne Court, Southend Road, Woodford Green, IG8 8HD.

Sainsbury¹s will give an extra £1 to the appeal for every donation that includes the donor¹s address (please write it on the back of your cheque). Details will be used to send out Gift Aid forms to sign and return, allowing the government to add 28p for every £1 of your donation at no extra cost to you.

TELL YOUR SCHOOL

If you think that your school could help to identify and support hidden young carers, and you would like details of how your school could receive £1,000 to help with this, or if you need more details about our school-awareness programme, visit www.carers.org/sundaytimes or call 0844 800 8527 (lines are open 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday; a machine operates out of hours.

You can also print out the forms here:

Application form

Nomination form

Monitoring form

Guidelines

The Princess Royal Trust for Carers has 83 young carers' centres that provide support and advice and an opportunity for children to meet other young carers. But many of these centres are at risk of closure, even though the number of young people referred to them continues to rise. Your money could keep them open. The cost of achieving this? £20,000 would keep one centre running for another year. £400,000 would support all the centres at risk of closure and equip them with the resources to survive for up to three years.

No young carer is the same. But all of them need a break. A huge proportion provide over 50 hours of domestic, physical or emotional support a week.

Your money will ensure as many as possible get some respite, whether it's an after-school class, so they can catch up, or an adventure weekend. The cost of this? £20,000 would provide around 200 carers with a break or allow them to join a club. £75,000 would provide 700 children with this opportunity.

Many young carers struggle with the demands of home and school, yet schools are often unaware that there are young carers in their midst. £320,000 will support a ground-breaking plan to raise awareness in UK schools. Each school will be offered a pack of information with material for PSHE (personal, social and health education) lessons. This will include advice on establishing links with families and adult services where carers are involved, and other professional guidance. We are also offering around 100 grants of up to £1,000 to schools who can show they can make a difference to carers' lives, through initiatives such as anti-bullying programmes.

Teachers will be made aware of the young carers' website so everyone knows where to get support.

WHERE YOUR MONEY WILL GO

Your money will give us the chance to train more key workers to provide the emotional support that young carers need and to develop initiatives to deal with truancy and bullying. We have already targeted 100 workers ready to be trained across the centres. The cost of achieving this? £200,000

Check timesonline.co.uk/sundaytimesappeal for regular updates about how the appeal is going