Pleased to share my debut picture book My Bright Shining Star ⭐️ It's based on my time in care, where the kindness shown to me by carer Aunty Rae helped me feel safe & strong whatever happened. I hope it helps show that with love, anything's possible 📕👉
As a baby, I was abandoned and left to die. After hearing my cries, neighbours called the police. I recovered in hospital from malnutrition, dehydration.
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#Fatima
showing the boys how to break the world record press-up at 5000 meters. Help me get my followers up to a million and I’ll keep kicking arse for Children and young People in the care system to have better life outcomes! This old bird still has it! 🙏❤️🙏
Foster Care Fortnight is the UK’s biggest foster care awareness raising campaign, led by The Fostering Network. It demonstrates the commitment, passion and dedication of foster carers. It also supports fostering services to highlight the need for more foster carers.
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‼️I have some exciting news to share with you… I am working on a new nationwide campaign to raise awareness for and support children and young people in and from the care system. I hope to inspire meaningful change that will last a lifetime 🌟
What followed in my childhood was spent in children’s homes. It was a life of deprivation, physically and emotionally. There weren’t enough basic needs, such as food and clothes. Love and affection were absent.
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Thousands of new foster families are needed every year to care for children, with the greatest need being for foster carers for older children, sibling groups, disabled children and unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
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I made it to Everest Base Camp! It’s an amazing experience, not to be underestimated. Definitely up there with all my challenges! This is for our children and young people in care. Thank you for your support, you can help make that difference.
#EVERESTANDBEYOND
This article in the Sunday Express is a poignant read and highlights the importance of foster carers, with my past as an example of how it can help transform a child’s life 🙏🏽
#Fatima
showing the boys how to break the world record press-up at 5000 meters. Help me get my followers up to a million and I’ll keep kicking arse for Children and young People in the care system to have better life outcomes! This old bird still has it! 🙏❤️🙏
Hope you’re enjoying the
#imaceleb
series so far! 🙏🏽🦁🌴🌟 There’s more excitement and drama to come, looking forward to reliving the experience 😎💓
@imacelebrity
Foster carers offer children and young people a safe, loving and nurturing home when they can't live with their birth families. This means they have a unique chance to make a real difference to a child's life.
I am taking on another (bigger!) challenge at the end of this month... 100 miles in 24 hours, in order to raise funds and awareness for
@actnforchildren
and
#FosterCareFortnight
🙏💜 Please share and visit my Just Giving page to find out more! Thank you🙌
Fatima fighting for children and young people! We have to do our best. When I was an athlete I didn’t allow anything to stop me!
#FOLLOWFATIMA
#EVERESTJOURNEY
We need the right support for the care system, which is what these children deserve. It’s vital to work together to bring change and make a difference. I am dedicated to this cause which is close to my heart please. Thank you for your continued support & watch this space! 🌟💪🏽
Fatima’s UK campaign continues. Tune in for BBC1 Breakfast TV this morning. Every child has a right to a safe and happy childhood and are young people need our help. Please help and give generously
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. I have found the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Remember nobody whoever gave his best regretted it.
#HELPME
#CHILDRENAREOURFUTURE
House of Lords this afternoon with Baroness Sayeeda Warsi
Girl Power…working to achieve more for our care systems sector and young children and young people. Keep watching. 🙏❤️🙏
I am currently working with a wonderful team of people helping with a project that will provide shelter, hot meals and much more to the poor souls sleeping on our streets. Also plan to re start the anti homelessness Road.
Thank you for having me on the show
@mrjamesob
👍🏼 I’d love to accept your offer to go on Full Disclosure, if you’ll still have me despite calling you Dan (apologies!)
Thank you to everyone for your kind words of support 🙏🏽 hope you enjoyed the show
#ImACeleb
also I am lucky to have met so many amazing people in the camp, including my besties
@carolvorders
&
@helenflanagan1
supporting me 💓
Fatima’s UK Campaign
Thought of the day.
Grief is the price we pay for love." "Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief." "Grief changes shape, but it never ends." "If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many
I enjoyed speaking with
@mrjamesob
on Full Disclosure, giving an insight into my life and why Fatima’s UK Campaign is important to me and those who it aims to help 🙏🏽
#EVERESTFORCHILDREN
The morning after reaching Everest. We Stayed at Gorakshep which is Situated at an elevation of 5,164m. Look at my view this morning before setting back to be Lokla. Children and young people matter
I am taking on another (bigger!) challenge at the end of this month... 100 miles in 24 hours, in order to raise funds and awareness for
@actnforchildren
and
#FosterCareFortnight
🙏💜 Please share and visit my Just Giving page to find out more! Thank you🙌
Fatima’s UK Campaign
Thought of the day
Talk to yourself positively – treat yourself as you would your best friend. Be supportive, kind and understanding. Don't be hard on yourself when you make a mistake. Challenge negative 'self-talk' – every time you criticise yourself,
Fatima”s Campaign
It was an absolute pleasure meeting The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper. We’re working in collaboration to bring better outcomes for our children, young people and care systems sectors. Watch this space 🙏
@jason_carl_fox
Morning Foxy, Billy, Rudi and Remi. It was an absolute honour to have had this opportunity to be alongside you and experience SAS who dare wins! Thank you all for all your kindnesses. Good luck moving forward and sending you all my love to you & your families.God bless. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
“Fatima’s Campaign”
I am drawing on my lived experiences of the care systems; using my platform and past to create a nationwide campaign to amplify the voices of our children and young people. Let’s make a difference now and for future generations! We need to take action 🌟💓
As Action for children’s ambassador I’m doing the Three Peaks Challenge this weekend. Ben Nevis completed 5hours 10mins- Skafell Pike 4hours 13mins in torrential rain and now on the way to Snowdonia. Great friendships built. 🙏❤️🙏
"I may have left the care system, but the care system hasn't left me."Speaking with
@5_News
about my experience in care, how it affected me, the current state of the care system, and the need for foster carers.
"As a baby, I was abandoned... left to die"
Olympian and champion campaigner for children in care,
@FatimaWh1tbread
, tells 5 News about her experience of being fostered, and urges people to "please help me make that difference for our young children."
@Julian5News
What a brilliant day out at Wimbledon watching the women’s finals and men’s doubles finals with my son 🍓🎾 Wimbledon truly is the best tennis tournament in the world 🏆🌍
working with my friends Shaun Ryder and Zak Starkey on an Anthem Song for children and young people in care. Every child is born with the same right to a healthy start in life, an education, and a safe, secure childhood
Preparing for the Three Peaks at the end of this month. Please continue to help me with my support of
@actnforchildren
and those in care 🌟 It’s vital that we help those to find loving and secure foster homes and continue to provide the vital care that they need. Thank you 🙏
40 miles for
@actnforchildren
and our young and vulnerable in care 🌟 This is just part of my training for the 3 Peaks in October. Bertie my Jack Russell is my training partner, he and and my son Ryan inspire me 💪🏽 Thank you for supporting this cause that is close to my heart 💓
Fatima’s UK Campaign
Is a charity committed to improving the lives of
young people in this country. We work to transform the hopes and happiness of young people who are facing abuse, exploitation, and neglect. We support them
through their most serious life challenges,
The one show tonight
Where I will be Presenting a piece about fostering children with full time jobs and interviewing Dame Sharon White Chair John Lewis about her journey aimed at integrating young care leavers into the workforce.
Fatima’s UK Campaign
Thought of the day is just that.
"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure." "Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path.
#FOLLOWFATIMA
#FOLLOWFATIMA
showing the boys how to break The World press-up Record at the foot of The World’s Highest Mountain Everest. I’ll keep kicking arse for Children and young People in the care system to have better life outcomes.
#HELPME
I met Isabelle Trowler today & she said I acknowledge that ‘I am taking up responsibility to make a positive difference to others’
Fatima’s UK Campaign I am passionate about our most vulnerable young children and care experience in society and to rejuvenate our care systems.
Morning everyone, progress update for you 🎉🙏🏽 also remember that it’s
#FosterCareFortnight
please share and raise awareness for our young people. Thank you 🙌🏽
I enjoyed speaking with
@mrjamesob
on Full Disclosure, giving an insight into my life and why Fatima’s UK Campaign is important to me and those who it aims to help 🙏🏽
honoured to be collaborating with Sir John Timpson CB, the chairman and owner of Timpson. Together with his late wife Alex, he had three children, adopted two more, and fostered another 90 children - he used his shoe repair empire millions to help others.
It was a pleasure to speak to
@DavidLammy
on
@LBC
about a cause so close to my heart… announcing “Fatima’s Campaign” to help improve lives in and after the care system for young people in the UK 🌟🇬🇧
‘Kids in care are quite feisty because they’re fighting for their rights all the time.’
Sharing how her coach eventually adopted her, Olympian and Action for Children Ambassador
@FatimaWh1tbread
tells
@DavidLammy
that she found sport to be a ‘saviour’ while in the care system.
World Mental Health Day
Westminster Chapel.
Tonight I’m a guest speaker on the effects on our young children, young people in the care systems. Building a platform for them
to be seen and heard and create a legacy for future generations.
For some people, purpose is connected to meaningful satisfying work. For others, their purpose lies in their responsibilities to their family or friends. Others seek meaning through spirituality or beliefs. Some people may find their purpose expressed in all these aspects of life
Fatima’s UK Campaign
To harness the power of “ONE VOICE” by giving young people in care a voice& by creating a collaborative, cohesive & meaningful partnership between all the agencies & organisations involved so that: All children, who for whatever reason are respected.
Fatima’s UK Campaign is gaining traction and I am delighted to have spoken at the
@UKLabour
Youth sector reception about the Nationalistic Framework for a “Summit” for our children’s care systems sector with
@Keir_Starmer
and
@YvetteCooperMP
Fatima’s UK Campaign meets
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives in Nepal.
Indira Rana Magar with the children at her orphanage. The thought of young children being stuck in prisons with no fault of their own always plagued Indira Rana Magar.
Making new friends along the way and joining in with the American group. Dancing with Birthday Boy on the Everest Mountain. Never too old to appreciate a lovely young man.
Mmmm 😛
#FOLLOWFATIMA
#FOLLOWMYJOURNEY
With Claire Summers BBC Radio Wales. If you’ve ever considered becoming a foster carer have a listen to my chat to raise awareness. So many children in need. I shares my own personal experiences on
@BBCRadioWales
from 5pm
@foster_wales
I am passionate and determined to do everything in my power to bring positive changes that will make a difference to social care and fostering for young people 🌟 let’s keep raising awareness!
Fatima’s UK Campaign collaborating with Bikeworks gifting 60 BMX Bikes for Children and Young People in Care and a day at the Velodrome in August for A Bikeworks Build-a-Bike which is a corporate team building with a difference. Not only will you participate in some fantastic
Sport was my saviour. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
I am happy to tell you that I have completed my latest challenge for
@actnforchildren
! 🌟
It was an amazing experience, packed full of scenic views, including Beachy Head, Seven Sisters, and lots of beautiful English countryside 🫶🏻
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Fatima’s UK Campaign
Fighting to build happiest lives, better communities and a nicer kinder society. Children and young people matter. It’s all our moral and ethical responsibility to do what we can to help them be happier, healthier and build a future for themselves.
At Fatima’s UK Campaign we are working with schools, community groups, sports&leisure providers, constabularies&councils to bring about positive &sustainable changes for these children and that of our society as a whole.
support families&councils by providing positive activities.
@JonjayNeedham1
Jon you’re helping so many people by sharing your emotional intelligence. Sharing is caring. It’s important to verbalising our own thoughts, feelings & experiences that we go through to help others become stronger and to be seen and heard. God bless 🙏
Fatima’s UK Campaign
Thought of the day Kindness
Kindness truly is a selfless act when one helps others without expecting anything in return. When you are kind, you lead a peaceful, happy life and you sleep better at night.
National Care Leavers week Support every care leaver to form and sustain loving relationships with carers and the professionals who support them, by enabling them to stay living with carers for longer and enhancing the role of Personal Advisor.
There was no way to fully prepare for what SAS Who Dares Wins had in store for us, but here’s what I did as part of my training 💪🏽 Thanks to everyone at the Wild Forest!
Fatima’s UK Campaign working with our Care Leaver event
This event is for young people over the age of 18 who have left care.The care leaver event will take place on Monday 12 August to August 16th between 4pm and 8pm. There will be refreshments available throughout the evening.
Fatima”s Campaign today’s meeting working in collaboration with “Childrens Social Work Academy” for better outcomes for our care systems sector, children and young people.
Fatima’s UK Campaign
Thought of the day.
No one heals himself by wounding another. You have power over your mind –not outside events. Realize this, &you will find strength. One's dignity may be assaulted,cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
This morning I spoke with Nicky on the topic of the care system in the UK. It’s so important for us to discuss the real issues that young children in care face in our society (I speak on this in my segment 1h23m). Please share 🌟
Children and young people need to feel loved unconditionally, even when they make mistakes or get angry. By separating the behavior from the child, we show them that we love them no matter what
Fatima’s UK Campaign
Thought of the day.
Every step toward the goals requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” “Allow yourself to be proud of yourself and all the progress you've made.
Fatima’s UK Campaign in discussions with James Timpson, the CEO of Timpson, who is now becoming prisons minister. We know there are 27% of under 21 year olds in Prisons which have either come from the care system or cross the path of care.
Back in civilisation a little bit wiser and more grateful. Nothing can substitute experience as the teacher of all things. Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Fighting to build happiest lives, better communities and a nicer kinder society. Children and young people matter. It's all our moral & ethical responsibility to do what we can to help them be happier, healthier and build a future for themselves
#followme
I’m continuing my journey in supporting
@actnforchildren
to find loving secure homes for our young children and teens. 💖 Watch this space! Thank you
#actionforchildren
and everyone for supporting this great cause and your continued support 🙏🏽🌟
Fatima’s UK Campaign
I have been working on an Anthem Song with Shaun Ryder from Happy Mondays and Zak Starkey The Who drummer and played with Oasis. Johnny Depp playing the guitar and Ringo Star percussion and much more.
As ambassador for
@actnforchildren
I would like to thank everyone for their support for The Three Peaks Challenge!
We were fortunate enough to meet some wonderful people raising funds for charities in need.
working to help our children find loving secure homes.
Foster Care Fortnight™ is
@fosteringnet
annual campaign to raise the profile of fostering and show how foster care transforms lives. FCF 2024 will take place from 13-26 May
#fosteringmoment
my Everest Base Camp Challenge for children and young people is here. The top of one mountain is the bottom of the next, so I will keep climbing. You have to work as a team, face many obstacles and bad weather, but no matter what, we always reach the top.
Fatima’s UK Campaign
Today I’m delighted to meet the NI Children’s Commissioner, Chris Quinn, to share Fatima’s UK Campaign and to promote Foster Care Fortnight to encourage more people to consider fostering children in NI
BBC NEWS NI
#HELPME
#CHILDRENAREOURFUTURE
Here in West Yorkshire to launch Project Hope. Brilliant initiative to support care experienced young people into employment in the health and care sector and working together with Fatima’s uk Campaign. 🙏❤️🙏
Fatima’s UK Campaign
Thought of the day.
Taking time for your self can help you feel restored and ready to face the other things you need to to each day. The key is to prioritize your downtime. Don't leave it as something that might happen if you can accomplish everything else