You can offer a child a home.
Who's there to support yours?
Evergreen shapes therapeutic and practical support around each child and your whole household, so a child joining your home can feel safe, settle and belong, and you never feel on your own.
Whether you're exploring fostering for the first time or an experienced carer considering a move to Evergreen, we'd love to talk.
Our affiliations and professional connections
More Than an Agency
We're a community of families, carers, and clinicians united by one belief: every child deserves to feel at home, with support shaped around them.
Our Mission
To welcome every child into a safe, loving family home, and to walk alongside both child and carer with bespoke, therapeutic support through every season.
Our Values
Compassion first, trauma informed always, family centred always, and community rooted in everything we do.
Our Promise
Bespoke support, therapeutic guidance, and a team that knows you. Never just a home, a partnership shaped around your family.
Support That Wraps Around You
No two children or families need the same support. Every home is backed by in-house therapists, therapeutically trained family support workers, a dedicated co-carer and a 24/7 team who know you by name.
An In-House Therapist For Your Family
Therapeutic support is built into Evergreen, not outsourced to a waiting list. Your own in-house therapist works alongside you and the child, shaping care around what this child needs right now.
Family Support That Knows Your Home
Dedicated support workers trained in the Richard Rose Model (TLSWI & THEiA Academy) sit alongside you in the everyday, offering practical, personal help as relationships and understanding grow.
24/7 Support From People You Know
An on-call team who know your family and the child personally are there day or night. Support comes from familiar faces, never an anonymous helpline.
A Co-Carer Children Already Trust
A matched co-carer means children build familiar, lasting relationships and support feels continuous rather than fragmented.
Professional Guidance, Every Step
From your first conversation through assessment and beyond, ongoing development and reflective support help you feel confident and never on your own.
Up to 62 Nights of Planned Stayover Care
Thoughtful, ongoing support for the child and the fostering family, keeping relationships strong and familiar, never a perk or a break from the child themselves.
A Valued, Supported Profession
Fostering with Evergreen is professional parenting. You're valued for your skill and commitment, guided through a thorough assessment, and backed every step of the way.
Recognising Your Role
Fostering is professional parenting, and it's valued as such. For each child welcomed into your home, the professional fee is £43,000 to £46,473 a year, usually tax free.
This isn't a price for a child. It's the recognition, support and resources that make it possible to offer a safe, therapeutic home and to meet each child's individual needs well, every day.
The Assessment Process
Becoming an approved foster carer is a thorough, supportive process, not a test. It gives us time to get to know you properly and answer your questions, never to rush you.
What the assessment involvesWhat Does the Fostering Assessment Involve?
A thorough process, with someone beside you throughout. Becoming a foster carer usually takes around four to six months, giving us time to get to know you, answer your questions and explore how fostering could work for everyone in your household. Timings can vary depending on individual circumstances and how long checks take.
Getting to know you
After your first conversations and application, you'll meet an assessing social worker. Through a series of relaxed conversations, usually including visits to your home, they'll learn about your life, relationships, experiences, strengths and reasons for wanting to foster. You'll talk about the children you may be best suited to care for and the support your family would need.
What is Form F?
Form F is the assessment report your social worker prepares with you. It brings together your conversations and the required checks to build a rounded picture of you and your household. It's detailed, but you won't be handed a form and left to work it out on your own. The assessment also includes references, health information, home checks and DBS checks for the adults in your household, plus preparation and training along the way.
Your Journey Lead is with you
Your Evergreen Journey Lead stays in touch throughout the process, helping you understand what happens next, explaining what information is needed and giving you space to ask questions as they come up. You'll also have your assessing social worker to guide you through the Form F conversations. We want you to feel informed and supported at every stage.
Panel and the decision
When the assessment is complete, the report goes to a fostering panel. You'll have the opportunity to attend and talk with the panel, which makes a recommendation. Evergreen's decision maker then makes the final decision about approval.
Curious about the process? Talk to us. There's no obligation to apply just because you've asked a question.
The People Behind It
A dedicated team of carers, clinicians, and community builders, here for every family and every child.
Clare Ratcliffe
Co-founder & Responsible Individual
Clare helped create Evergreen to give children with complex needs the chance to grow up in a supported family home.
Danielle Turner
Fostering Journey Lead
Danielle helps people explore fostering and guides them through the first steps, with space for honest questions along the way.
Supervising Social Workers
Carer Support
Walk alongside our foster carers with regular visits, guidance, and a steady point of contact throughout the fostering journey.
Therapists
Therapeutic Guidance
Offer therapeutic guidance to children and foster carers, helping families understand what a child may be communicating through their behaviour.
Family Support Workers
Dedicated Support
Provide practical, personal support to children and fostering families as everyday relationships grow.
Come and Meet Us
We're hosting an event and would love to see you there. It's a relaxed way to meet the Evergreen team, ask questions about fostering, and hear from carers in your own words.
Fostering Done Differently
You don't need to have every answer before you ask about fostering. Tell us a little about yourself and we'll talk you through what fostering with Evergreen could look like for you.
Talk to us about fostering