A FREE event will take place this weekend telling the story of Helensburgh and Lomond's young carers – though two other events planned to support carers in the area have been called off.

The free event, 'A Young Carer's Dream', takes place at the Victoria Halls this Saturday, November 16, at 7pm.

Written by staff and volunteers from the Helensburgh and Lomond Young Carers organisation and by some of the area's young carers themselves, the project has been funded by the Armed Forces Covenant Trust Fund.

The performance is the result of a pilot project run by the group, Get Involved With The Drama, and follows the holding of a focus group session to identify issues faced by young carers at school and at home.

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Those issues, identified by young carers themselves, include bullying, poor body image, social isolation, low self-esteem and a lack of self-confidence.

The study also identified 'separation anxiety' among young carers from military families, who comprise more than one in three of the young carers supported by the organisation.

Saturday's performance will tell the story of the young carers who are supported by the organisation, which received a grant of more than £100,000 earlier this year from the BBC’s Children in Need appeal to help develop the services it provides in the area.

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Free tickets for the show are available from the Carers’ Centre in Lomond Street (tel 01436 670555) or by messaging the ‘Helensburgh and Lomond Carers SCIO’ page on Facebook.

However, the Helensburgh and Lomond Carers SCIO – of which the Young Carers organisation is a part – has also announced that the young carers' main fund-raising event of the year – a gig with Little Mix tribute act ‘Little Fix’, due to take place at the Victoria Halls on November 22 – had been cancelled “due to lack of support and low ticket sales”.

That comes after an earlier announcement that a fund-raising ceilidh for HLC at the Commoodore Hotel this Friday, November 15, featuring the Helensburgh and Lomond Fiddlers and pupils from the Margaret Rose School of Dance, had been postponed. A new date has yet to be confirmed.

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