Gingerbread are currently in Birmingham to attend the 2022 Conservative Party Conference and encourage our political leaders to recognise the challenges that single parent families face and to prioritise the support they need. We’re here to...

Gingerbread are currently in Liverpool to attend the 2022 Labour Party Conference and encourage our political leaders to recognise the challenges that single parent families face, and to prioritise the support they need.   We were thrilled...

by Victoria Benson, CEO of Gingerbread We are experiencing the biggest cost-of-living shock since the 1970s. For any household, the costs of housing, food and fuel are big, but for single parents they are huge. So far,...

This week’s Autumn Budget has seen winners (cider drinkers and short-haul flyers) and losers (savers and smokers) but what does it mean for single parents? What does the Budget mean for working single parents? Of the 1.8...

Watch the report launch webinar here – with single parent Andrea, researchers Laura Dewar and Liz Clery, Gingerbread CEO Victoria Benson and chaired by Institute for Employment Studies Director, Tony Wilson. A report published today by...

Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families, and StepChange, the UK’s leading debt charity, are today publishing a new report which shows the UK’s 2 million single parents are more likely than any other sector...

New report shows single parents more likely to experience problem debt and to live in persistent poverty. Many forced to go without food to make repayments.