GPA support group update for No Contact Groups

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 May 2013 10:10

" All I want is to just make peace"

Welcome to all our support group leaders and members page.

In recent conversations with various groups, we were told that members would love to know more about what is going on in our organisation especially with regards to no contact. Well, we listened. We have introduced a new section for support groups called 'GPA support group update for No Contact Groups'. This can be printed from this web page and can be taken to your meetings. You can photocopy the printed page to circulated to your group members which is especially important when members have no online access.

During the year 2011-2012 we received 8,348 calls to our Information & Support Line. 3,501 of these calls represented contact calls

PREVIOUS UPDATES - Here you will find a summary of previous updates for No Contact Grandparents

• July 2012
• September 2012

CURRENT UPDATE - Below you will find a summary of just some of the work that the Grandparents' Association is doing for No Contact Grandparents.

JUNE 2013

New Relationship Support Services for grandparents and their families
As a partner in a major new project funded by the Department for Education and headed up by Relate, we are now offering a range of new services to help grandparents and their families experiencing relationship problems.  In particular we are focusing on:

• Grandparents concerned about their child’s partnership/marriage going through a rocky phase or going through divorce or separation
• Grandparents worried about their grandchildren and/or devastated about the family breakdown
• Grandparents raising their grandchildren and finding that their own marriage or partnership is under strain
• We will also be offering relationship support for grandparents whose families are at the point of breaking up and where family conflict means they are worried that they will not see their grandchildren

As part of our new work on relationship problems, we are launching a range of specialised services so we can give you one to one support in a number of ways.   We are using decades of experience of helping grandparents to offer these services, delivered by trained and experienced staff and volunteers, most of whom are grandparents. More...

MARCH 2013

New version of the Family Mediation Information and Assessment Form
Grandparents or any person who is looking to issue Family Proceedings will need to know there is a new version of the Family Mediation Information and Assessment Form (FM1).
more

http://www.justice.gov.uk/xredirects/directgov/form-fm1-march-2011.pdf

HELP US FUNDRAISE!
We would just like to say a BIG thank you to the Solihull Support Group, who have raised £500 recently, by asking their local Lions for support for The Grandparents' Association. This donation will help the group promote the needs of members who cope with no contact.

NOVEMBER 2012

Evening Helpline update: Unfortunately our Thursday evening sessions have stopped temporarily due to a shortage of evening helpline volunteers. If you would like to become a helpline volunteer, we would love to hear from you. Please call Grant on 01279 428040.

New Vice President
We are delighted to announce that Tim Loughton MP has agreed to join us as Vice President. He joins the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP - Vice President, Lord Christopher Northbourne -Vice President, Andrew Percy MP , Baroness Hughes - Vice President, Peter Harris - Vice President and Elizabeth Butler-Sloss GBE -President.

NEW ARTICLES ON OUR SITE

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Keep us up to date

Don't forget to update us with any activity you are doing. If you are campaigning locally, please do let us know so we can keep track of media enquiries and latest news.

gill.perks@grandparents-association.org.uk

Thank you for your support.

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