CareTech Charitable Foundation and Hallmark Care Homes Foundation partner with The Open University to launch life-changing scholarships for young carers

CareTech Charitable Foundation and Hallmark Care Homes Foundation have joined forces with The Open University (OU) to help fund the Carers Scholarships Fund – a unique initiative which supports unpaid carers by providing access to free OU education and wraparound careers support. As the first of its kind in the UK, the OU Fund will provide the equivalent of 50 undergraduate and postgraduate full fee-waiver scholarships a year to unpaid carers who so often miss out on higher education. The CareTech Foundation, who signed on as the first corporate partner…

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