Legal friends of Gingerbread

Become a legal friend of Gingerbread and support single parents.

Gingerbread’s Single Parent Helpline takes calls on many issues familiar to family lawyers: separation/divorce, housing, contact and domestic violence. Our helpline is just one part of Gingerbread’s work with and for single parents.  We campaign to tackle the poverty many single parents face, provide help and information that single parents can trust, and run training to help single parents prepare for paid work.

Gingerbread campaigns alongside family lawyers on issues including:

• Defending and improving legal aid
• Creating an effective child maintenance system
• Reforming the law on cohabitation
• Pressing for greater support for parents and children during separation and divorce. 

Family lawyers know the reality of single parents’ lives and are well placed to help Gingerbread challenge myths and stereotypes.

Please support Gingerbread and our continuing work by becoming a legal friend.
The cost is £36 a year or £10 for those of less than seven years call or PQE and benefits include:

• Free annual seminar on issues relevant to single parents, counts as continuing professional development (CPD) points
• Email updates, including new policy and research
• Networking opportunities.

Alternatively, your law firm could become a corporate legal friend of Gingerbread

Read about our seminar for legal professionals: Alternative dispute resolution: the solution to the Family Justice Review?

Read Gingerbread's submission to the government’s Family Justice Review 2010.

To join legal friends of Gingerbread  fill in our form. 
Please note: this is a scheme for legal professionals.  If you are a single parent and need to get advice on personal legal matters, please phone our free, confidential helpline.