Call our National Helpline on 0300 0300 363
Check availability times

The UK's leading Shared Parenting charity

FNF is the leading UK charity supporting dads, mums and grandparents to have personal contact and meaningful relationships with their children following parental separation.

We offer information, advice and support services helping parents to achieve a positive outcome for their children.

Our online Forum and our network of over 50 UK Branches also offer pro-bono guidance of solicitors and others familiar with the operation of the family courts.

Join FNF or register for free to receive our newsletters, surveys, research and more.  As a member, you can also access our Forum in which experienced volunteers, including solicitors and McKenzie Friends can answer your questions. 

Visit your nearest FNF Branch where meetings are run by experienced and knowledgeable Volunteers who want to help you.  Some of the more established branches run solicitors' clinics for the benefit of our members. 

We  have a telephone Helpline (0300 0300 363) which provides first-line support.

FNF membership costs less than a few minutes of a typical solicitor's time - and could save you a fortune by being better prepared for the choices ahead!  Find out more about free registration and joining or simply donate.  Your support is crucial in enabling us to sustain our mission working for parents and children who are being denied a loving relationship.

 

Training Courses

LATEST COURSES:

Presented by Families Need Fathers - East London Branch

Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities

A Parenting Program for Mums and Dads living apart

13 Weekly sessions at 6.30 – 9.00pm - Starting 26th Sept

Read more ...

More Articles ...

  1. Lies, Damned Lies and False Allegations!
        Forgot Login?  
Join us now...
Consider a small donation...

FNF will receive 5% of anything you spend with Amazon using this link.

Try it now and bookmark it for future use!

 

  • 2 out of 3 allegations of abuse judged or found to be false! This is according to research into contested family law cases in Scotland by Professor Tommy MacKay. See our press release for more information here: https://fnf.org.uk/news-events-2/press-releases/150-press-releases-2017-archive/432-press-release-false-alleg-sep-2018 If you like this then Like us. Better still, follow us! To receive our Newsletters too please register with us for free or become a member at www.fnf.org.uk.

  • Presented by our - East London Branch Strengthening Families - Strengthening Communities A Parenting Program for Mums and Dads living apart 13 Weekly sessions at 6.30 – 9.00pm - Starting 26th Sept https://fnf.org.uk/news-events-2/training-courses

  • Need we say more? Of course we do! We all do.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/fatherhood/seven-reasons-why-its-essential-children-spend-time-with-their-f/ If you like this then Like us! To receive our Newsletters too please register with us for FREE or become a member at www.fnf.org.uk.

  • In view of our last post on 50/50 co-parenting research, we thought it worth reposting this article from a year ago about mothers' feelings in such circumstances. Separated fathers have been struggling to cope with losing some or even all time with their children for years. If parents can no longer live together they must both try to remember that working together for the children is even more important after separation. It's sad to be without one's kids but good to know they are happy and thriving with the other parent with just as much love for them. The many comments posted in the DM article are worth a look too. One commenter said "Build a bridge and get over it". This is not as heartless as it may sound. More like tough love? We need those bridges, and building them can be fulfilling... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3573927/Agony-50-50-mum-Women-held-upper-hand-custody-battles-fathers-winning-EQUAL-access-mothers-struggling-cope.html

  • We told you so!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4837570/Study-finds-separated-parents-split-custody-equally.html Don't forget to like this or our page to help us get the word out.

  • This unusually short-sighted and rather condescending item shows just how blindly and dogmatically a particular tradition can be preserved - whilst shedding no light on the reasons for doing so whatsoever! In fact it has, by rubbing our noses in the principle, highlighted just how important it is for this to be reviewed! The two issues may well be treated separately, but should they, when doing so may trigger so many of the behaviours which characterise the outcome failures of the family justice system? We believe that parents' responsibilities - all of them - whether financial, emotional or moral, should be considered as a whole when deciding children's futures. http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/2017/08/07/repeat-after-me-child-support-and-contact-are-two-separate-issues/


FNF HSSF Kite Mark Award

Families Need Fathers has been awarded the Help and Support for Separated Families Kite Mark which is a new UK government accreditation scheme for organisations offering help to separated families.

Families Need Fathers work with a range of family law professionals, including Family Law Panel

 

Upcoming Events

20/09/2017 Wed: London West Meeting & Solicitor Clinic
21/09/2017 Thu: Wakefield Meeting
21/09/2017 Thu: Newcastle Meeting
21/09/2017 Thu: Aberdeen Meeting
23/09/2017 Sat: Harrow Branch Meetings
25/09/2017 Mon: London Central Meeting
26/09/2017 Tue: Harrow Branch Meetings
27/09/2017 Wed: Cambridge Meeting
28/09/2017 Thu: London East (Tower Hamlets)
28/09/2017 Thu: Exeter Meeting
2/10/2017 Mon: London Central Solicitor Clinic
2/10/2017 Mon: Edinburgh Meeting
2/10/2017 Mon: Reading Meeting
3/10/2017 Tue: Newcastle Meeting
3/10/2017 Tue: Leeds Central Meeting
3/10/2017 Tue: Oxford Meeting (check day with branch)
3/10/2017 Tue: Northampton Meeting
View Full Calendar