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. (more…)
Posted 29 June 2023
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...
Posted 7 April 2022
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...
Posted 21 March 2022
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...
Posted 14 March 2022
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...
Posted 27 May 2010
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...
