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Gingerbread is the national charity working with single parent families.  Over 90 years have passed since our organisation was established, yet bringing up a child alone is still tough, making ends meet is still hard and stigma and prejudice have not disappeared.  One thing that has changed though, is that single parenthood is now much less rare.  1 in 4 families, with over 3 million children, are headed by a single parent.  Despite that they are still more likely to face poverty and prejudice than couple families.

Gingerbread provides expert information and advice along with membership and training opportunities, to single parents and their families and campaigns against poverty, disadvantage and stigma to promote fair and equal treatment and opportunity.  Our services include.

• The Gingerbread Single Parent Helpline, providing expert telephone information and advice for single parents via a dedicated freephone number, 0808 802 0925.
• Gingerbread Single Parent Information Online, providing dedicated online information and advice for single parents.
• Gingerbread Membership, enabling single parents to share experiences, hear about discounts and get involved in Gingerbread’s work. 
• Gingerbread Development and Skills, providing training, employability and confidence building programmes for single parents, advisers and practitioners.