One Family is working to ensure a positive and equal future for people parenting alone, sharing parenting and parenting around separation – changing attitudes, policies, services and lives. They are committed to achieving equality and respect for all families. While acknowledging that every family is unique, They endeavour to bring about better lives for these parents and children. In addition to striving for fundamental attitudinal and structural change in our society, our services offer support in a family-centred way to individual families through times of change and difficulty, as well as supporting those experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.

OPFS aims to enable single parent families to achieve their potential, to reach a decent standard of living and contribute to Scottish society. Those with the greatest expertise about what makes a real difference are single parents  with lived experience. They support all single parent families whether headed by mothers or fathers, young parents or kinship carers.

In February 2018, Gingerbread celebrated 100 years of working for and with single-parent families. Keeping single-parent members at the heart of the work, Gingerbread has changed laws, influenced government and challenged stigma and stereotypes.  Their expert advice and information services help thousands of single parents every year. Through policy work, research and campaigns, Gingerbread's members’ concerns and experiences have been taken to the heart of Westminster championed by community of thousands of families from all across the country that have constantly offered friendship and support. 

Starting with a group of dedicated volunteers who delivered significant progress for single mothers through evening meetings while their children played together, CSMC has both flourished and struggled over the past 50 years to deliver practical support to single-mother families and advocate for change. Today they are a professional organisation with paid staff and volunteers – still all women who are or have been single mothers.

SMFA is an organisation dedicated to single-mother families. They have an unrelenting quest and commitment to seek safer lives with agency, control and economic certainty for single-mother families. SMFA provides a range of platforms that give voice and respect to the lived reality for single mother families. Their key focus is for single mother families affected by hardship, poverty, and gender-based violence. SMFA is informed by the women who contact us, their own research and research collaborations.