12/06/2026
He fell asleep on the way back. She watched the fields go past. She hadn't just watched fields in a long time.
There are 5.8 million carers in the UK. Most wouldn't call themselves one.
They'd say they're a wife, a husband, a daughter, a son. A father-in-law who accepted someone into his family and was accepted back. A fiancé who stepped up when everything changed. A person who loves someone, and who does what love requires.
Caring doesn't arrive with a title. It arrives on a Tuesday morning in 2022, or six years ago when someone had a stroke, or gradually, so gradually you can't name the day it started. It arrives and it stays, and somewhere along the way the person doing it stops being asked how they are.
This Carers Week, we asked.
We heard from Tom, who has been his fiancée's partner in crime for over ten years, and her carer since her MS diagnosis in 2022. From a daughter-in-law who has given six years of full-time care to her father-in-law and still started her message by asking whether her story counted. It does.
What we heard, underneath every story, was the same thing. Not burnout, not resentment, not a request for recognition. Just a quiet wish to go places together, without it being an ordeal.
ORA gives you an accessible vehicle. The rest is yours.
If you're a carer, or you love someone who uses a wheelchair, we'd like to help you go somewhere together.
