Whether you're raising your family on your own or with your partner, becoming a parent can be a very daunting experience. However, there are a variety of organisations offering support to mums and dads accross the UK through knowledge sharing, support networks, and workshops with the aim of providing guidance and direction to families to help make parenting life that little bit easier.
Cry-sis, is the only UK charity offering help and support to parents with babies who cry excessively or have sleeping problems. They can offer advice and information on how to cope with a sleepless baby and/or a crying baby.
London
Lines open 7 days a week 9am-10pm
Gingerbread help single parent families to lead secure, happy and fulfilling lives. They offer expert advice and information on a wide range of topics, & a peer support network where parents can link up both on and offline.
London
NCT are the UK’s leading charity for parents, for your First 1,000 Days - right through your pregnancy, birth and beyond. They can give you accurate, impartial information through their meet-ups, courses and workshops.
London
Monday to Friday 9-5pm
One Parent Families Scotland aim to encourage and enable parents across Scotland to make the most of the opportunities available to them so they can flourish as happy, healthy and achieving families. They provide help to all single parent families; mums, dads, young parents and kinship carers helping them to enter education, training or work and take up new interests.
Edinburgh
Monday - Friday 9.30am to 4.30pm
Single Parents Support, also known as SPS, was created to help, advise and support single / lone parents. We offer a safe community for mums and dads who are raising a child after separation.
Southampton
