Kids Creativitiy

Foster Care Fortnight Competition

Foster Care Fortnight – the UK’s biggest awareness-raising campaign for fostering – runs from 12 to 25 May 2025. This year’s theme is The Power of Relationships – because at the heart of every fostering journey are the connections that make all the difference.

What does ‘The Power of Relationships’ mean to you?

We’re inviting you to respond to this year’s theme in your own unique way. What does the power of relationships look like in your life? What does it mean to you? 

It could be a lifelong friendship, or the supportive connection with a foster carer, teacher, or social worker who believed in you when it mattered most.

You can express your ideas through anything creative – a poem, a painting, a painted rock, screenshots of a game, a short video, or any other way that captures your imagination.

Age Categories and Prizes

Prizes will be awarded in three age categories:

  • Ages 0–11

  • Ages 11–17

  • Ages 18+

There'll be a prize for a winner and runners up in each age category. Prizes include £50 voucher of your choice, Mood Bears, and other great items.

Entries will be evaluated for their creativity, uniqueness and exploration of the theme “the power of relationships".

How to Enter

Send us your entry – or a photo of it – in one of the following ways:

Email: [email protected]
Post: The Fostering Network, 87 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HA

If you’re entering by post, please include your name, age, and an email address so we can contact you.

Deadline for entries: Saturday 31 May 2025

Don't miss your chance to showcase your creativity and celebrate the power of relationships!

Example

Zoe’s poem beautifully captures the deep, lasting bond that can grow, built not on shared names, but on shared love, trust, and time. It’s a heartfelt reminder that family is not always given, but often chosen.

Walking Together

We started as strangers—
You walking fast, I walking slow.
Like all things, it took time to grow,
But together we've walked through every season.

You walk fast, I walk slow.
Now, we live on different continents,
But the distance is never really felt.
Voice notes, calls,
Photographs of connection—
Always pulling us in the same direction.

We don’t look the same, or sound the same,
Don’t even share a last name.
You wake early,
While I’m still in bed.
We don’t always agree,
But we face it all
With trust and honesty.

When you walk fast, I will run.
When I walk slow, you walk with me.
Through life’s ups and downs, ebbs and flows,
You will always be my chosen sister.

- Zoe