Charity focus

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Charity Focus – Family Rights Group

The Family Rights Group are a charity who aim to promote the well-being of children and families and are currently celebrating their 40th year. The charity was formed in response to the injustices experienced by many parents involved with social services (now known as children’s services) and the unnecessary separation of children from their families. “It is a fundamental human right of...

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Charity focus – Rights of Women

Who are they? Rights of Women are a voluntary organisation which aims to empower women to access their legal rights. The organisation was founded in 1975 and gives advice on a wide range of legal issues such as family law, divorce and relationship breakdown, children and contact issues, domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, discrimination and lesbian parenting.Free Advice Lines The...

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Charity Focus – Coram

Coram has been creating better chances for children for 275 years. Today, they help over a million children and young people every year. Coram believe that every child deserves the best possible chance to live a fulfilling life. The charity supports children and young people from their earliest days to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.Who do they help? Every day Coram...

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Charity Focus: Relate

Relate are the UK’s leading relationship charity, with over 75 years of relationship support experience.Relate aim to develop and support healthy relationships by:Helping couples, families and individuals to make relationships work better Delivering inclusive, high-quality services that are relevant at every stage of life Helping both the public and policy-makers to improve their...

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Charity Focus: Women’s Aid

Women’s Aid is the national domestic violence charity that helps up to 250,000 women and children every year.Women’s Aid recognises that all women and children have a right to live their lives free from all forms of violence and abuse, and that society has a duty to recognise and defend this right. About Women’s Aid… Founded in 1974 Women’s Aid have over 30 years’ experience of...

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Charity Focus: Gingerbread

Gingerbread – a charity that offers help and support to single parents. Gingerbread define themselves as “a society in which single parent families are valued and where they (and their children) are treated equally and fairly”. Gingerbread have a fantastic website full of useful practical advice on a wide range of issues that affect single parents in the UK, including work and money...