What We Believe
Click here to download Families Need Fathers 'what we believe' a document detailing our Policy Aims.
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Click here to download Families Need Fathers 'what we believe' a document detailing our Policy Aims.
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In this section, you can find out more about the people who help to run the charity. Just click on one of the below sections to find details about our board, patrons and staff.
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There are many ways that you can participate in FNF activities. In fact, one of the greatest things that FNF can offer you in addition to support is the sense of actively doing something to improve the situation for you and your children.
FNF's best resource are its members and volunteers and the joint experience and support that individuals get from each other. Your experiences could help others too.
You can simply choose to join and become a member - or you can apply to be a volunteer to learn more and help others. You can also donate to FNF of course if you wish.
Membership is open to anyone who needs help and support over separation and access to their children as well as those who have an interest in the work of Families Need Fathers. Our members include fathers, mothers, resident and non-resident parents, grandparents, new partners and friends as well as supporters of our cause.
There are many advantages to becoming a member including access to additional areas and useful publications on this website as well as our Forum where members can communicate and ask questions free of charge to participating lawyers as well as other volunteers. We will also keep you updated with the latest developments in the field.
FNF is a charity committed to proving reliable help and support; available at Local Branch Meetings, on the Helpline and via the main areas of the website. The Forum is also an excellent source of advice from lawyers, McKenzie Friends and other contributors like yourself who have travelled down this often very difficult and painful road. In order to fund the help that we provide we positively encourage you to join. The small membership fee that we ask for is the only way to ensure the charity's future.
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Volunteers are the life blood of FNF and anything that you can do, big or small is appreciated.
There are many ways that you can participate in FNF activities. In fact, one of the greatest things that FNF can offer you is the sense of actively doing something to improve the situation for you and your children.
FNF's best resource is its 3000 members and the joint experience and support individuals get from each other. Your experiences could help others too.
Please become a member of FNF to receive advice and support, and help make a difference!
We provide up to 100,000 services a year, which are mostly provided through the selfless work of our FNF volunteers. We are reliant on membership subscriptions and donations to fund this core part of our work which includes campaigning.
Add your support to the charity, and you will be joining a group of people determined to make sure that the voice of separated parents and their children is heard.
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Updated in June 2015, The Charter covers five key principles:
• No child should be denied a full and loving relationship with both their parents unless it has been proven that such a relationship presents a risk to the child;
• The family justice system should promote collaboration and shared parenting between parents following separation;
• Family courts need to respond swiftly to breaches of Child Arrangement Orders, to ensure that relationships between children and the parent they do not live with day-to-day are not compromised;
• Information and support services should be easily accessible for separated parents throughout the different pathways of the family justice system;
• The important contribution of fathers, mothers, grandparents and the wider family should be promoted wherever possible, in both family policy and wider society.
We have developed more detailed points to pursue these, which form the basis of much of our work on these principles. They are outlined in our 'Families Need Fathers Charter 2015' document, which can be downloaded below:
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