National News

29 Nov 2024
We were delighted to have the opportunity to work with the Ashford Sings! Community Choir to record the song 'Welcome Home.' Now available online (wherever you stream your music), it sends an important message about the urgent need for more foster carers to provide children with safe and secure homes. The Ashford Sings! choir is run by Diagrama Foundation foster carers Nic and Chris Kimmance. They were so concerned about the lack of foster carers throughout the country that Chris put pen to paper to write the lyrics and music for a Christmas single. Read more...
21 Oct 2024
There’s no such thing as a ‘normal’ family, say 65% of Brits – as National Adoption Week highlights adoption journeys of all kinds Read more...
07 Oct 2024
Last week, we won three awards at the Bromley Adult Care Awards! The prestigious awards, which recognise the best in the care sector across the Borough of Bromley were announced at an event held at the Bromley Civic Centre on Wednesday 2 October. Read more...
12 Sep 2024
Paul Jacobs GM, who served as an Infantryman with the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, was just 20 years old when he lost his sight in an explosion in Afghanistan which killed two of his friends. As well as losing his sight, he was left with a traumatic brain injury and heavy scarring to his body. Paul spent much of his young life in care and attributes his foster carer Marion for giving him the love, family, stability and home he needed to turn his life around. Read more...
06 Aug 2024
Diagrama Fostering now has a brand new website! Alongside our new website for Diagrama Adoption, we decided to carry out this project to better help us find homes for vulnerable children that need them the most. We wanted to provide a better user experience for people making enquiries to our website, and needed better functionality to do this. With a new look and feel, we hope this new site will improve our visibility online, encourage higher numbers of visitors and result in more people contacting us. Read more...
06 Aug 2024
We are delighted to announce that we now have a brand new website for Diagrama Adoption. This project was commissioned to help us find homes for vulnerable children that need them the most, offering an improved user experience for enquiries to our website. With a new look and feel, and better functionality, we hope this new site will improve our visibility online, encourage higher numbers of visitors and result in more people contacting our organisation. Read more...
01 Aug 2024
Diagrama Foundation is delighted to announce the publication of 'A Chance for Change’  - which is the 5th book in our Monument Fellowship Series. It explores the important topic of what a fairer justice system could mean for children and young people through a collection of thought-provoking essays and creative reflections. Read more...
20 May 2024
Diagrama Community Services are absolutely delighted to announce that we have been awarded the contract by West Sussex County Council to deliver Day Opportunities at our locations in West Sussex. This includes our 100 acre Duckyls Farm and other locations in Sussex. From 1st July, these sites will provide a choice of opportunities and activities to adults with learning disabilities, supporting individuals to develop skills that promote independence, healthy living and access to employment. Read more...
13 May 2024
Foster Care Fortnight is run by The Fostering Network from Monday 13 May to Sunday 26 May. Every year, the campaign showcases how lives are transformed through fostering, and this years’ theme is ‘Fostering Moments’. So, in recognition of this we are celebrating the moments that define the journeys of our foster carers. This could be the first time a child reaches a milestone in their care, develops to their full potential, or becomes an adult and has a family of their own. Every moment matters, and they create memories you’ll keep for a lifetime. Read more...
04 Mar 2024
Diagrama Fostering and Adoption is once again proud to support New Family Social’s LGBTQ+ Fostering and Adoption Week in 2024. This week brings together the UK’s adoption and fostering agencies to raise awareness of the vital need for people within the LGBTQ+ community to consider adopting or fostering under the theme ‘Different Together’. The Awareness Week, which is run by New Family Social, is the only recruitment campaign in the UK to focus on encouraging more LGBTQ+ people to consider both routes to building their families. Read more...

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