Join us for the 2025 Sydney Foster and Kinship Care Week Picnic on Sunday 31st August 2025 from 11am to 3pm at Blacktown Showground.

Each year the picnic brings our carer community together to celebrate and say thank you for the valuable work you do to provide safe, nurturing and stable homes for children and young people. Join us for rides, food stalls, entertainment, a petting zoo and many more family-friendly activities.

The picnic is open to foster and kinship carers, guardians and adoptive parents from out-of-home care in NSW and the children and young people you care for.

BYO chair and picnic blanket and we’ll do the rest.

General Conditions of Entry.

The 2025 Sydney Foster and Kinship Care Week Picnic is an inclusive event for member carers and their families to enjoy. The safety of all attending the event is paramount. Adopt Change (Organiser) reserves the right to refuse entry to the event to any person who causes a disturbance or has previously created risk for the organisation or other members of the My Forever Family NSW program. Measures will be taken to ensure anyone who causes a disturbance, either actual or implied, or refuses to comply with reasonable requests made by the Organiser, will be denied entry and/or evicted from the event.

Getting There

Please enter via the Richmond Road entry gate.

PARKING - There is extensive car park on site with a limited number of disabled parking spots available.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT – Blacktown Train station is 10 - 15 mins walk. There are several bus routes from Blacktown station, Stand A - 752 750 751 753 754 that stop right near Blacktown Showground.

WALKING – The showground is a 10-15 minute walk from Blacktown Station.

TAXI – There is a taxi stand located on the south side of the train station next to the bus interchange. The estimated trip cost is $15.00.