Join us for the 2024 Sydney Foster and Kinship Care Week Picnic on Sunday 8 September from 11am to 3pm at Penrith 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 2024 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 Ransley Street entry gate.

PARKING - There is non-metered street parking available on Station Street outside the venue. There is also a small car park with a limited number of disabled parking spots - if this is required please contact us at events@myforeverfamily.org.au and we will organise this with you directly, subject to availability.

BUS – There are several bus routes that stop right out the front of the Penrith Showground. 781 – 793 – 795 – 797 -799

WALKING – The showground is a 10-15 minute walk from Penrith Station. Simply exit the train station on the south side and head straight down Station Street.

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 $12.00 – $15.00.