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Merger for One Parent Families and Gingerbread
Howard Lake | 23 March 2007 | News
The two charities representing the interests of Britain’s 1.8m lone parents and their children have agreed in principle to merge.
Gingerbread and One Parent Families are currently working towards a date in May to implement the merger which will create a single national charity solely dedicated to supporting one-parent families and fighting against poverty that affects many of them.
Deputy chief executive of One Parent Families Nigel Purkis said it was very early days and no name had yet been decided for the new organisation. He said that Gingerbread was very well-known among one-parent families, and One Parent Families among opinion formers so we will be looking at how best to maximise the value of the brands. He said it was likely that both names would be retained in some format.
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It was also too early to say whether any staff would be affected by the merger, Purkis said, but added it was a very positive step to increase capacity and that all possible efforts would be made to keep any redundancies to a minimum.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.