Friday 30 June and 1,600 young carers from 87 projects across the UK descend on YMCA's Fairthorne Manor, near Southampton. They are there for the seventh annual Young Carers Festival, organised by The Children's Society.
Back by popular demand, a bhangra band has the masses learning new dance moves. Lose Tuiileila, a young carer and campaigner from New Zealand, opens the festival with a speech full of praise for the young people's practical and emotional support to their families and for the festival itself, the largest gathering of young carers in the world. There follows dazzling fireworks, a disco until midnight and very little sleep under the stars.
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