Gingerbread (charity)

"One Parent Families" redirects here. For the concept, see single parent.

Gingerbread describes itself as the leading charity working with single-parent families across England and Wales. The National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child, founded in 1918, changed its name to the National Council for One Parent Families in the early 1970s and in 2007 merged with Gingerbread, a self-help organisation founded in 1970. After briefly being known as One Parent Families|Gingerbread, it relaunched as Gingerbread in January 2009.

The charity provides information and practical support to single parents. The charity works to improve the livelihood of single parents through advocacy and policy work, relating to employment and skills, families and relationships, living standards and poverty, and welfare.

Gingerbread has marked Single Parents Day on 21st March since 2018 by bringing attention to the challenges faced by single parents and celebrating the amazing achievements of the nearly 2 million single-parent families across the country.

J. K. Rowling, formerly a single parent, is the charity’s President.

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