The funding will contribute towards whole organisational costs to deliver core services and will help give Surrey Parent Carers (PC) a collective voice via a forum to share knowledge and empowerment and improve opportunities for their children. FVA have just under 2000 Parent Carer members that help influence wider services and provision through sharing experiences responding to surveys participating in workshops events and focus groups. Previous members have become Volunteer Project Coordinators for boroughs in Surrey (these roles will now be paid as sessional workers) and help facilitate service offers driven by what matters to local members.