# Lone parent organisations merge

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/06/04/lone-parent-organisations-merge/
- Published: 2007-06-04T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Britain’s two leading lone parent organisations, Gingerbread and the National Council
for One Parent Families, have merged.
The new national organisation will provide
a service to Britain’s two million lone parents and their children.

The new organisation will be led by Chris Pond, former Work and Pensions Minister,
who said: “Being a parent is tough at the best of times, but when you’re bringing
up children on your own, the challenges are even greater. Lone parents often find
themselves trying to make ends meet on a low income, juggling work and family responsibilities
and facing social isolation and stigma… We’ll be trying to make sure that lone parents
are seen as the heroes they are and not the villains that they are sometimes portrayed
as.”

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