How to become a Shared Lives carer

Find out about the different schemes you can apply for to provide a home for vulnerable people and support them to live more fulfilled lives in our community.

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Shared Lives Week 2025

Shared Lives Week takes place from the 23 June to 27 June. 

It is a time to celebrate the incredible work of Shared Lives carers, who open up their homes to support adults with care needs in a family-style environment. 

It highlights the power of kindness, inclusion and community, showing how people thrive when they’re supported to live as part of a real household, not in institutional care.

Find out about Croydon Shared Lives

Come and meet the team at one of our events:

Thursday 19 June, 10am to 4pm

Purley Memorial Hospital
856 Brighton Road
Purley
CR8 2YL

Monday 23 June, 10am to 1pm 

CVA Volunteer Centre
Team Croydon Shop Unit 32
Centrale Shopping Centre
North End
CR0 1TY

Tuesday 24 June, 10am to 1pm

CVA Volunteer Centre
Team Croydon Shop Unit 32
Centrale Shopping Centre
North End
CR0 1TY

Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 June, 10am to 4pm

Job Centre Plus
Bernard Weatherill House
8 Mint Walk
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Tuesday 8 July, 10am to 4pm 

Croydon University Hospital (main entrance by escalator) 
530 London Road
Thornton Heath
CR7 7YE