Single parent and Group Lead Louise, shares why she started a Gingerbread group. “Hello, I’m Louise, a single mum of two teenagers and a six-year-old, and I’m the group lead for the Northampton Gingerbread Group. I separated...
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Michael’s story
Michael, the son of a single parent shares their story and why Gingerbread groups are so valuable. “I grew up with my mum, just the two of us. She was a lone parent, and she worked...
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Emily’s story
This time last year I couldn’t have run from one lamp-post to another’ says Emily. We’re delighted that she’s chosen to share her journey with us, as she prepares for her first half-marathon. ‘A year and...
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I am Carly, single mum to Ezra. He is almost 4, so he was not even 2 years old when we first went into the pandemic. I do not co-parent, so I am doing the...
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Victoria Benson shares what Single Parents’ Day means to her
When I became a single parent I had six children at home. It was a time of huge change and I didn’t know where to start. I felt completely on my own, I had nowhere...
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by Professor Patricia M. Thane, visiting Professor in History at Birkbeck, University of London, and the author of a number of works including ‘Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England’, a history of Gingerbread...
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Gingerbread President J K Rowling writes exclusively on stigma, welfare cuts and her experience of being a single parent. Nearly twenty years ago (it’s a shock to me to write that, because it still seems quite...
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