Beneficiary group Charities That specialise in Parents and guardians

The main areas of activity are in adoption work and community projects such as Alana House for those within the criminal justice system.

Scholarships to adult students and parent trust of dance school delivering up to degree education courses

Shap provides a range of supported housing services across Merseyside. These services range from the provision of emergency accommodation for young homeless people to specialist support for young parents. We work in communities to support people who have been homeless or who are vulnerable because of mental health issues, drug or alcohol use or other factors.

Under the terms of the trust, the fund can make grants to young people between 5 and 25 years old, resident in the old borough of Finsbury (now part of Islington) with a preference for those resident in, or whose parents during the previous year had their business or employment in the Parish of St. Lukes Old Street, and in the opinion of the governors are in need of financial assistance.

Care for the Family's aim is to strengthen and support family life. We provide relationship education and support in three key areas: marriage, parenting and bereavement. Activities include day and evening events, activity holidays and residential breaks, marriage and parenting courses, volunteer telephone befrienders, and books, DVDs and other resources to strengthen family life.

Adoption UK is a membership organisation providing support, community and advocacy for all those parenting or supporting children who cannot live with their birth parents. We connect adoptive families, provide information and signposting on a range of adoption-related issues and campaign for improvements to adoption policy and legislation at the highest levels.

TIMP through its operating arm, Tavistock Relationships, aims to provide services that support couples, strengthen families and safeguard children. It's work is geared to improving the quality of adult couple relationships, preventing family breakdown, supporting positive parenting and thereby promoting healthy development in children.

For disabled children and adults: Conductive Education programme through- Approved independent special school: 4 to 18 years- Parent & Child groups- Adult services- Stroke (rehabilitation) Group- Family Support

Home-Start offers informal and friendly support to families with young children, providing a lifeline to thousands of parents and children in around 300 communities across the UK, and with forces families in Germany and Cyprus.Support is free, confidential and non-judgemental, and the quality of this is maintained with local schemes working to national standards.

The organisation is a special school in Berkshire for children between 7 and 18 years of age. The organisation aims to reach out to those children whose needs may not be fulfilled in a mainstream setting and provides facilities and services to staff, parents and pupils in order to facilitate the provision of excellent education. Expertise in social & emotional difficulties caused by early trauma.

Advancing the education of the residents through the provision of training and childcare facilities; the provision of advice, support and guidance on issues relating to childcare, parenting and education, health and the environment and the provision and maintenance of a family centre.

The organisation provides physical and emotional support for those suffering from cancer or other illness/bereavement either themselves or close family members (e.g.parents/siblings) by providing home help, company, support with attending appointments, days out, respite care, counselling, therapy, massage and other comforting / pampering treats to maintain their emotional strength and well-being.

WE CARE FOR OVER 4,000 KIDS ACROSS THE WORLD BUT NO TWO ARE THE SAME, SO WE TAKE CARE TO UNDERSTAND AND MEET EACH OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS, FROM FOOD AND HEALTHCARE, TO LOVING PARENTS AND QUALITY EDUCATION. WE HELP THEM REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL, STAND ON THEIR OWN TWO FEET AND CHANGE THEIR FUTURES. WE HAVE TRANSFORMED THOUSANDS OF KIDS LIVES, AND WE ARE ONLY JUST GETTING STARTED.

Home-Start Greenwich (HSG) is an independent charity affiliated to Home-Start UK offering support to families with young children in the Royal Borough of Greenwich since 1993.Our volunteers deliver one to one home visiting support to families. HSG provides help, support, advice & parenting strategies at home. HSG has four Ofsted registered childcare settings and manages 7 Children's Centres.

HENRY is a national charity that is transforming traditional approaches to health through successful intervention at the start of life. Services address child obesity, oral health, infant feeding, parenting and emotional wellbeing. Services include training for early years practitioners and evidence-based family programmes to give children a healthy start in life through a whole-family approach.

The charity offers support to vulnerable families including very young parents both by the provision of residential family centres and in the community.

New Roots provides supported accommodation in Bassetlaw & Newark & Sherwood to homeless and vulnerably housed young people between 16-21yrs. We work with single young people, couples and young parents. It is the aim of New Roots to support all service users in the development of independent living skills and making the transition to suitable and permanent accommodation within their own community

The Organisation facilitates the design, delivery, and scale-up of evidence-based, freely available parenting solutions to promote healthy child development and wellbeing, and prevent family violence.

The Family Society is an adoption agency which prepares and approves potential adoptive parents and supports families with adopted children.

TO ADVANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES (SEND) BY: PROVIDING SAFE AND STIMULATING PLAY; SUPPORTING THEIR PARENTS, AND; PROVIDING ADVICE AND TRAINING TO HEALTH AND EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS, ALL OF WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO BUILDING WIDER INCLUSION FOR CHILDREN.

To provide full time bi-lingual nursery education for children between 3 months to 5 years of age, whose parents are working, studying or disadvantaged. We also provide outreach service to Turkish speaking community, this includes children education, parents learning basic skills, parenting skills, translation and interpretation, set up workshops and seminars.

Gingerbread (National Council for One Parent Families) is the national charity working with single parent families to understand their challenges and ensure that their needs are met. We provide expert information and advice, membership and training opportunities. We campaign against poverty and stigma to promote fair and equal treatment and opportunity for single parent families.

We are the national LGBTQ youth homelessness charity; focused on prevention and early action we provide emergency accommodation and routes to safe homes, practical advice and mentoring, training, advocacy and support to young people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or living in a hostile environment after coming out to their parents, care givers and peers.

We help children access potentially life-saving treatment, whilst supporting research that not only aims to introduce new treatments but also bring existing internationally available options here to the UK. We support parents by sharing the most current resources available for neuroblastoma treatments and providing access to other parents who want to share their knowledge and experiences.

North Staffs Mind works to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress, primarily in North Staffordshire. The organisation has three main service areas providing support to individuals in various ways: counselling for adults, children and young people, and parents; supported housing; and training and development activity to raise awareness of mental health issues.