Our single parent superhero gallery celebrates mums and dads who are smashing everyday family life, have been a friend to other single parents or inspired others with the way they’ve moved on after a break-up.
We’ve been overwhelmed by the response to our 2025 single parent superheroes campaign. With over 100 nominations, it’s time to celebrate our amazing community of mums and dads, community group leaders, campaigners and employers.
Our single parent superhero gallery celebrates mums and dads who are smashing everyday family life, have been a friend to other single parents or inspired others with the way they’ve moved on after a break-up.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. So we’re celebrating our single-parent village – the group leaders who bring our communities together, and employers who are putting family-friendly working policies into practice.
We want to see a world where single parents and their children can achieve their potential. So we’re also celebrating the campaigners and influencers who are working to build a brighter future for single-parent families.
Nominations are closed for this year, but it’s not too late to tell a single parent they’re doing an amazing job! Our superhero themed e-cards are super cute, and for a small donation to support Gingerbread’s work, you can send up to 100 e-cards!
Mothers Day and Fathers Day celebrate all parents. But because single parenting brings its own unique pressures and difficulties, we want to give single mums and dads an extra day to celebrate them!
Making a nomination is a great way to let someone know how much they’re appreciated.
‘I’m stunned to see Ruby has done this, as I just see it as an honour and a privilege to call myself their mum… I have to admit, I looked a bit odd with tears running down my face in Primark!’
Single Parents Day has been celebrated in the United States since 1984. Following a petition set up by Janice Molgen and the organisation Parents Without Partners, President Ronald Reagan signed Proclamation 5166, bringing Single Parents’ Day into existence to be celebrated on 21st March each year.
In 2018, Single Parents Day launched in the UK. Since then, Gingerbread has celebrated Single Parents Day 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.
Single Parents Day is a time for single parents to reflect on and celebrate their successes. It’s also a chance for the world to show single parents how much they’re valued and for organisations like Gingerbread to push for a more equal society, in which all families are on a level playing field, regardless how many parents they have.
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