Gingerbread Wales is the leading organisation helping Lone Parent Families in Wales.  We aim to improve the quality of life for Lone Parents and their children.

* By providing a network of local self help groups.

* By providing training and support for individual Lone Parents, which gives them the opportunity to take on new responsibilities and learn new skills.

  For more information, please contact 

Telephone the National Office on 0800 0178 5026 or  020 7428 5400

Regional Office is 029 20 471900.

or Margaret, Wales Regional Steering Committee on 01745 337618 after 6pm.

Visit the National office website to get more information, please click here  to take you straight to their website.

GINGERBREAD HISTORY

Gingerbread was STARTED by a sparky young single mum, Tessa Fothergrill, in 1970.  She chose the name because the cafe, the Golden Age of Gingerbread, gave her free coffee and emotional support when she was homeless and roaming the streets of west London looking for somewhere to live. 

She thought Gingerbread would be a good name for a support group because:-

Since then the divorce rate in Britain has trebled and Gingerbread has been a constant force actively campaigning to improve the lot of lone parents.  Nowadays, we aim to do two things: offer lone parents and their children advice, information and emotional support, practical help and speak out for them in the media and politics.

In 2007 Gingerbread merged with One Parent Familes and up until recently the organisation was known as One Parent Familes/GINGERBREAD.  However, on the 19th January 2009 the organisation was relaunched and is now known once again as Gingerbread.