Single Parents Day 2025
Last updated: 17/03/2025
This year, for Single Parents Day, on 21 March, One Parent Families Scotland is joining 16 organisations across the UK and Ireland to launch a collective campaign under the theme, Single Parent Community.
By joining forces, we aim to amplify our voices, reach more families, raise awareness of available support, and build stronger connections among single parents and the organisations that work to support them.
What is Single Parents Day?
Despite 1 in 4 families being led by a single parent, single parent families are often overlooked or misunderstood.
Single Parents Day on March 21 is a chance to celebrate the love, resilience, diversity and strength of single parent families across the world while challenging the unfair stigma they face.
Find out about Single Parent Day events at our local services
Who’s involved?
Each of these organisations provides valuable support and resources, and/or campaigns with single parents. Some organisations work in specific regions, but collectively we cover the UK and Ireland.
Explore our work, follow us on social media, sign up for our newsletters and get involved in our online campaign.
- Asian Single Parents Network – We provide social, emotional, and practical support to build confidence, prevent isolation, and combat the stigma attached to being a single parent in the South Asian community.
- BAME Lone Parents Network – Supporting and empowering single parents with advice, support and community programmes.
- Dads Rock – We provide the tools dads and families need to give their children the best possible start in life.
- Fathers Network Scotland – Improving children’s lives and outcomes through the positive involvement of dads, father-figures and whole families.
- Fife Gingerbread – We support and empower Fife’s lone parents and families in need for better todays and brighter tomorrows.
- Frolo – An app to connect, support and empower single parents through community and dating.
- Gingerbread – We’re here to fight for single parents and their children.
- Horizon Single Parent Support – We provide practical and emotional support for single parents in Staffordshire.
- NEESIE – Facilitating prosperity for single mums and women with children.
- One Family Ireland – We provide services for people parenting alone, sharing parenting, or going through separation.
- One Parent Families Scotland – Providing expert advice, practical support and campaigning with single parents in Scotland.
- Parenting Focus – Dedicated to supporting families across Northern Ireland through parenting support, practical resources and advocacy.
- Single Parent Information Network – Providing information and support to single parents in Sussex.
- Single Parent Rights – The single parent led movement fighting to end single parent discrimination.
- Single Parent Support and Advice Services – Helping single parents by giving them access to services and support.
- Single Parents Wellbeing CIC – Peer led and connected to being a single parent household in Wales.
- Stand Up Fathers – Supporting dads to navigate and improve their co-parenting relationships.
How you can get involved:
- Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, BlueSky and keep an eye on the hashtags, #SingleParentsDay and #SingleParentCommunity on the day so you can join the conversation and help raise the profile of single parents and the support available both nationally and in your local area.
- Share your own stories, thoughts, photos and experiences online, remembering to tag us.
- Offline you can let a single parent you know how much you value them. Maybe give them a gift, spend time with them, or help them out with something they would appreciate.
- If you would like to chat and have peer support with other single parents across Scotland, please join our forum.
- Sign up to our newsletter for stories, campaign news and more.
Together, we can celebrate, connect and challenge stigma this Single Parents Day 2025!
Donate to help single parent families
We are working to bring about the change we want to see in Scotland:
A future where single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly.
Providing vital support services that enable One Parent Families to achieve their potential.
Helping to create lasting solutions to the poverty which has such a deep impact on the lives of so many One Parent Families.
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