Both Parents Matter

27 Old Gloucester Street , WC1N 3AX, London, GB
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4.50
Based on 109 Reviews

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About Both Parents Matter

Founded in 1974, Both Parents Matter (formerly Families Need Fathers) 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 branches also offer free guidance of solicitors and others familiar with the operation of the family courts.

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Bogdan
United Kingdom | 31 December 2023

What? Only 5 stars? These gentlemen deserve a lot more than that. Loads of usefull advice and support for separated parents.

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Azam Rafiq
United Kingdom | 31 December 2023

This charity saved my life, without them I would be lost going through the Family Court system.

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Jamie
United Kingdom | 30 December 2023

Great fathers support group. Bravo.

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AKO KADER
United Kingdom | 30 December 2023

Always helpful AKO kader

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Jamal
United Kingdom | 30 December 2023

Valuable information in one place. Mind blowing facts about the unfair system.

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matthew
United Kingdom | 21 December 2023

David & FnF are the only reason why I’m where I am today. I have had full custody of my daughter now for over 4 years. At the start of my journey I stumbled across FNF in harrow that was chaired by David. I attended many meetings, some of which were not easy but now I look back were for the greater good. David and the group’s willingness, knowledge and encouragement kept me going and trust me there were time when I was this close to throwing in the towel. Thanks David for everything you and this group did to help me on my journey.

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Sam
United Kingdom | 07 December 2023

FNF has been the place for sound advice and support for me.Everyone is genuinely concerned and happy to help to ensure I get a positive outcome regarding my children as I go through the frustrating process for child arrangement order.

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Anon
United Kingdom | 05 December 2023

David provides a brilliant service to a community of Dads at the North Harrow FnF Branch. If it wasn’t for him, mosts Dads wouldn’t be able to see their children. As laws are anti fathers.

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Mike
United Kingdom | 03 December 2023

When I was lost and completely ripped off by nasty solicitors and lazy courts, I found a bit of hope, help and support through this organisation. It was like a torch for a father lost in a dark cave.

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'James
United Kingdom | 03 December 2023

Fantastic charity. Very helpful and lots of very smart and engaged people. Made a huge difference to me.

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Mr Omer
United Kingdom | 03 December 2023

If it wasn’t for FnF I wouldn’t being seeing my daughter and I would have wasted all my time and money with no result. This is a great under funded organisation for all parents not just fathers.

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David Eggins
United Kingdom | 02 December 2023

An absolutely essential support organisation for men and women going through the family courts. As a provider of work for domestic abusers, many of whom are "appearing in the Family Court" we suggest that everyone should attend FNF. The support with presenting cases and via McKenzie friends is incredibly valuable. Our favourite would be Harrow, which in our opinion offers the best service, but that is not in any way to undermine all the many other branches, some of whom we not know.

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Sara Wrightman
United Kingdom | 02 December 2023

FNF has given me the unprecedented support and guidance through the unjust system weighted against fathers often suffering vindictive allegations of abuse that have been fabricated to stop and control contact with their children. Through the trauma of the injustice there has been no one there except FNF in these lonely and traumatic times and we are reliant on FNF to reach the other side so that the children and father can be reunited and in each others’ lives. FNF must continue to campaign for equality and for children’s rights to equal and shared parenting and expose the abuse of the legal system by some parents to alienate the non resident parent.FNF needs to grow and its voice be a significant part of the government and justice system.

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Haroun Bouk
United Kingdom | 02 December 2023

Incredibly supportive people! Their motto is that you're not alone!

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MUHAMED ALI
United Kingdom | 01 December 2023

Very helpful and unique organisation

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William Davis
United Kingdom | 01 December 2023

A really helpful organisation which supports its service users very well and campaigns for the best outcomes for children whose parents are separated or divorced

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Lolade Oresanwo
United Kingdom | 25 November 2023

When my partner told me about the extent the mother of his children went to stop him seeing his daughter I could not believe it and felt we had to be the only one going through it. Until we found FNF we had no idea our story was just one of thousands; if only these mums understand the harm they are causing their children.

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Sue Whitcombe
United Kingdom | 24 November 2023

I have had quite a bit of engagement with FnF for more than a decade now. Originally I sought advice from their forum in support of a friend experiencing post-separation abuse & manipulation & restriction of his child's relationship with him. I regularly attended local branch meetings and was struck by the knowledgable & empathetic peer support & advice offered by the mums, dads & grandparents who attended. This demolished any illusion that FnF was a men's rights organisation, or only worked with fathers. Since then I have often recommended FnF as a source of practical & emotional support for anyone who is experiencing post-separation abuse or challenges maintaining their relationship with a child following family breakdown. When asked, and if able, I have been happy to support the charity by speaking at national & local events about psychological evidence around family breakdown and child welfare matters. I was really disappointed to have to pull out of their 2023 conference due to ill health.

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Jonathan
United Kingdom | 15 November 2023

What an amazing organisation, offering help, support and advice. A really informative and pioneering charity. Thank you!

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FnF Customer
United Kingdom | 18 October 2023

FnF was recommended to me at a point when I was completely blindsided after settling into post-divorce life, seeing my two older children regularly four years on from separation. I was informed that my children wanted to move 200 miles away and that their mother had agreed this with them. I was told that I had no say in the matter, and that this was all done behind my back because if I was involved I would only object to 'what the children wanted'. The fact that this happened about three weeks before my new partner and I were expecting the birth of our new baby had nothing to do with this, of course. So my older children would be deprived of a relationship of their younger sibling, having been previously very excited about their imminent new brother. At the time my daughter was 13 and my son 10, my son was even told he would still see me a couple of times a week despite the four-hour journey between us. My objection to this at the time resulted in the children blaming me for the upset, and I could not do anything to show them they had a right to a relationship with both parents. I was branded selfish and my ex then started to throw all sorts of allegations at me despite not having had any contact with her apart from to discuss family logistics. My daughter turned against me completely and I barely saw her for six months despite living half a mile away. Then I attended an FnF meeting after my patient and suffering, heavily pregnant partner found them, in Harrow with their leader David Dunne, a volunteer who has selflessly helped many hundreds of people over the years. My eyes were opened to a cruel world with mine being a very mild case unfortunately. The group of parents and grandparents (it is a very inclusive organisation) all had harrowing stories to tell with some not seeing their children for years. I was given realistic expectations, which was basically that I could not do anything to prevent what was happening, but that I could do something to ensure that the relationship with my older children would not be lost. FnF give you the tools and advice to guide people through the minefield of the unjust and broken system in this country, and the support that you and your family need to cope at the worst time in many people's lives. Whilst it is hard to achieve a fully positive outcome in many cases they can at least help to recover some sort of meaningful relationship between parents and their children. In my case my children are grown up now (19 and 16), and they did move away - but not before I managed to achieve a positive outcome in terms of visitation (even Cafcass recommended that their mother must bring them to see me, not the other way around). Of course I see them less now they are older but I always know that without FnF I would barely know them now, and am heartened that when times are tough for them they always turn to Dad for help and guidance.

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