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Money Survival Kit

Welcome to One Space’s Money Survival Kit – a comprehensive guide to help single parents make the most of their income and spending. Lone parents often have complex financial problems that reflect the difficulties they may be facing in other areas of their lives, including: difficulties with debt, housing, benefits, low pay, tax credits, insecure jobs, childcare costs, CSA and health issues.

Tax credits: effect of Budget changes 6 April 2011

Changes to tax credits are happening from 6 April 2011. These include the amount of income you can have before your tax credits are affected, the hours you can work if you're 60 or over and some payments being reduced or stopped. Find out about the changes and how they might affect you.

Shopping Advice

Consumer Direct is the government-funded telephone & online service offering information & advice on consumer issues. Consumer Direct is funded by the Office of Fair Trading & delivered in partnership with Local Authority Trading Standards Services.

The Smart Way To Save For Children

KidStart is a free shopping club that allows its members to collect cash savings for their children, grandchildren, friend's children, school or children's charity when shopping at a wide range of retailers, service providers and other similar companies. Our aim is to help parents and grandparents do that little bit extra for their families in as easy a way as possible while maintaining the necessary standards of trust and security. We are building an ever expanding network of retailers and partners so that members can continue to save more over time.

An A to Z of all DWP information leaflets for download. Pensions, finding work, taxes, pay, employment and more

Free education for 3 & 4 year olds

Ensuring that a free, good quality, part-time early education place is available for all 3 and 4 year olds across Bristol

To access benefits & grants

We help people access the money available to them – through welfare benefits, grants and other help. Our free, accessible website has been designed to help you find appropriate sources of financial support, quickly and easily, based on your particular needs and circumstances.

Find out about your child maintenance options

Child Maintenance Options provide impartial information and support to help both parents make informed choices about child maintenance.

Find out more about Education Maintenance Allowance

For information, application advice and useful links regarding your access to financial support whilst you train.

Find out what parternity leave you are entitled to.

If you are a father-to-be or you will be responsible with the mother for bringing up a child, you could have the right to Statutory Paternity Leave. You may also qualify for Statutory Paternity Pay. Find out what you are entitled to.

Local news, events and support for parents in Bristol

Free advice for families in debt

Get information and advice regarding debt, how to manage it and how to get yourself out of it.

Online help

Information about benefits, housing, employment, debt, consumer and legal issues.

Fair Financial Services for everyone in Bristol and the surrounding area

A different way to save and get financial advice in Bristol

What will your child grow into?

This is a savings and investment account for children born on or after 1 September 2002. The account belongs to the child and can't be touched until they turn 18. The Government has proposed significant changes to CTF from 1 August 2010 onwards, see website for details

A network of independent advice

Find help and advice in Bristol, South Gloucestershire & North Somerset.

Links to help you & your business

Helping you prepare financially for the little one on the way

Planning for a new arrival makes for a busy time and soon you'll be experiencing some big changes to your lifestyle. Your finances are obviously no exception. We're here to help you learn, plan, remember the important dates and generally make sure you can stay in control of your family's financial situation.

Help with childcare while you learn

If you’re under 20 and have one or more children, Care to Learn can help with the cost of your childcare while you're learning. Get up to £160 per child per week for childcare costs

Helping young people take control of their finances

A page of useful links and advice for young people regarding finance and how to manage their money.

Eligibility

Information about the Care to Learn Scheme for young parents and application details.

Family Service Directory

1 Big Database is a place to find out about organisations, support, events and other useful things going on in your area

A guide to paying for Christmas

If you want to put a bit of money away each week so that you'll have enough to get what you need at Christmas, there are quite a few options.

Paying for Childcare

Find out what help you can get with your childcare costs...

Daycare Trust

Find out what help you can get with your childcare costs

Planning for a new arrival makes for a busy time and soon you'll be experiencing some big changes to your lifestyle. Your finances are obviously no exception. We're here to help you learn, plan, remember the important dates and generally make sure you can stay in control of your family's financial situation.

We believe that the right money advice can make a real difference to your life.

Want more information on child maintenance? Child Maintenance Options is a free and confidential service to help child maintenance work for you.

Links to support organisations

A comprehensive list of domestic support organisations with wide range of focus

Online bullying advice

Advice for parents and young people regarding how to tackle bullying online, and the forms that it can take.

Advice for people being racially bullied

Find out what to do if you know a child you think may be at risk of racist attacks.

Homophobic Incident Reporting Service

EACH provides a confidential, homophobic incident reporting service covering the West of England. If you have been the target of a homophobic incident or crime call our Actionline on 0808 1000 143

Disablist Incidents & Crime Prevention

DICE can help report bullying, offer support & advice and provide training on how to stay safe.

Link to advice booklet from Bristol City Council.

One-stop shop for information for Bristol families

Provides free impartial information and guidance on a full range of childcare and children's services and resources across the City of Bristol

Links to support organisations

A comprehensive list of domestic support organisations with wide range of focus

Family information at your fingertips

A what's on guide for families to everything happening in your local area.

Single Parent Action Network

Find out more about resources and courses for parents as part of the Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities project for Bristol.

Together for Short Lives is the voice for all these children, young people and their families - as well as the organisations and people that support them. We are here to ensure that every life-limited and life-threatened child, young person and their family gets the best possible care and support from the moment of diagnosis, wherever they live and as long as they need it.

Money Survival Kit

Welcome to One Space’s Money Survival Kit – a comprehensive guide to help single parents make the most of their income and spending. Lone parents often have complex financial problems that reflect the difficulties they may be facing in other areas of their lives, including: difficulties with debt, housing, benefits, low pay, tax credits, insecure jobs, childcare costs, CSA and health issues.

For active kids to moody teenagers, for reading and writing to sex education, for balanced diets to school bullies - parent TV has video advice for all ages

Bringing together key Bristol agencies to improve all children’s well-being

Information regarding the national Children’s Plan and how this is being implemented at a local level

Community for single parents with support from experienced parenting facilitators and brings together essential information, interactive learning games, multi-media content, links to other local support organisations and news.

Advice for the Dads of Bristol

The Bristol Fathers website is an information gateway and comprehensive directory of projects, agencies and charities set up to support fathers and children

The Children's Charity in Bristol

Barnardo’s South West covers a region of sharp contrasts with many challenges.

Support & Friendship for Families

We help to increase the confidence and independence of families & help parents build better lives for their children

Find out more about Bristol foster care

Information and guidance about becoming a foster carer in Bristol.

Working for children with multiple disabilities

The Children’s Trust is a national charity and specialist service working with children who have multiple disabilities and complex health needs.

‘Parenting support’ is a term that is used to describe any activity aimed at providing local information, advice and support to parents and carers to help them in bringing up their children

Be inspired by incredible children

Bibic is a national children’s charity that provides practical help for children and their families from all over the UK with conditions such as autism, cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, Aspergers, ADHD, Challenging Behaviour and specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia and dyspraxia.

Varied Support Services

For free telephone counselling service or a mutual support network with other parents in the same situation as you

Promoting child behaviour and wellbeing

Offering support and behavioural services to a wide variety of Children and Young People, including those with varying needs of all ages.

Parent Information

We know how important it is to make the right decision about childcare for your child and we hope that, through our information and services, we can help you to find out more.

Family Lives Resource Page

All of the services are free, and they also offer a wide and growing range of free leaflets, videos, podcasts and interactive resources.

For parents of young people

Because starting conversations about sex with your child may be hard, especially if your own sex education wasn’t ideal, we’ve included lots of information on our website.

Study Centre

The SFSC approach emphasises that parenting is affected by the local environment and that parents can play an active role in shaping this environment through community involvement

For people living with or around Multiple Sclerosis

West of England MS Therapy Centre provides support and relief of symptoms to people with Multiple Sclerosis and their supporters. Using a range of complementary therapies, and self help techniques we will support you and help you to live with MS.

A Guide to their Options

Here you can find the information you need to help your teenager with their learning and career choices 14-19.

A network of independent advice

Find help and advice in Bristol, South Gloucestershire & North Somerset.

Information and support for parents

The emotional and physical upheavals that hit a child as they enter their teens bring all kinds of problems and few parents guide their children through the teenage years without hitting a few obstacles

Online help

Information about benefits, housing, employment, debt, consumer and legal issues.

Information & Support for Dads

Dads space provides advice & support for all aspects of being a parent.

For psychotherapy & the arts

The Bridge Foundation provides a range of psychoanalytic psychotherapy & counselling services. We are a Bristol based organisation with a strong commitment to providing accessible & high quality services to a wide range of individuals & families. Alongside our fee paying services, we are committed to delivering accessible free counselling services for parents & children previously underserved by such services and to refugee and asylum seeker families.

We are based in our large centre in Bristol, from where we provide a range of specialist services, and are home to several community groups.

Learn to cook good food for your children

We are a Bristol based company offering fun and social cooking classes for parents at all stages of weaning their child and beyond.

Supporting Families of Prisoners

The Prisoners' Families Helpline has been relaunched as the Offenders' Families Helpline . It is a free and confidential service for anyone who is is affected by the offending of a close family member or friend.

Behaviour Management Plans

Managing children’s behaviour can seem a Herculean task when they begin to realise how much fun getting into trouble can be. Rather than simply punishing children, which is often as hard on a parent as it is on a child and more often retributive rather than informative, consider making a behaviour management plan.

Information for parents/carers

There are certain risk and protective factors that can (but don't always) predict offending and non-offending. Research has shown that four risk factors present in a young person's life can predict offending.

Family Service Directory

1 Big Database is a place to find out about organisations, support, events and other useful things going on in your area

A guide to paying for Christmas

If you want to put a bit of money away each week so that you'll have enough to get what you need at Christmas, there are quite a few options.

Relaxed Birth and Parenting supports women and their families in pregnancy, birth and parenting. We run weekly antenatal classes in Bristol; incorporating birth education rooted in the physiology of birth, pregnancy yoga, active birth, bodywork, breathing, relaxation and visualisation for complete emotional and physical wellbeing.

Family & Relationship Advice and Support

If you feel that you're having trouble in your relationship or family, make an appointment to discuss your options for improving it.

In the South West, local services are provided through a team of home-based family workers and volunteer parent representatives.

The Hypnotherapy Directory team is passionate about increasing awareness of the positive benefits hypnotherapy can achieve. Find local practitioners covering a wide range of needs in Bristol.

Useful Links

Looking for more information? Then look no further as this section lists organisations providing general or condition specific information.

An easy to use support site where parents can download free tips, reward chart and find out about parenting courses.

Want more information on child maintenance? Child Maintenance Options is a free and confidential service to help child maintenance work for you.

Local news, events and support for parents in Bristol

Links to support organisations

A comprehensive list of domestic support organisations with wide range of focus

Free confidential services for people suffering with addiction

Gain access to the full range of free services provided and get in touch, whether for you or a loved one.

A drug treatment centre focused on black and minority ethnic young people

Get information and advice if you know a young person you feel may be at risk of misusing drugs.

Promoting child behaviour and wellbeing

Offering support and behavioural services to a wide variety of Children and Young People, including those with varying needs of all ages.

For those concerned about drug abuse

Families Anonymous is a world wide fellowship of relatives and friends of people involved in the abuse of mind-altering substances, or with related behavioural problems. FA has groups, spread throughout the country, which meet regularly.

Help and support for those struggling with addiction, and their families

KWADS is a Bristol-based, community-rooted organisation providing a range of services including free and confidential information, advice, guidance, signposting and support to family members, carers, concerned others and professionals in relation to someone else’s alcohol/drug misuse.

Family Service Directory

1 Big Database is a place to find out about organisations, support, events and other useful things going on in your area

Bristol young people's substance misuse services

Opening Doors is the umbrella name for specialist substance misuse services for young people in Bristol.

Family Lives resources

The housing & homeless charity

Shelter believes everyone should have a home. We help people find and keep a home. We campaign for decent housing for all and have a Bristol based office.

Bristol City Council Housing Advice

Bristol City Council provides a free, specialist and confidential housing advice service to residents of Bristol with housing related issues. We aim to provide a service that prevents homelessness from happening, rather than reacting to someone becoming homeless. There are various teams that can help you.

Are you homeless, threatened with homelessness?

If you are Homeless, threatened with Homelessness, or would just like advice on what housing options are available to you, you should go to one of Bristol City Council's Customer Service Points. Advisors there can assess your situation and give you the most appropriate advice for your situation. If your case requires more specialist Housing Advice, they will refer you on to the Housing Advice Team, who can help you in a number of ways

Working with refugees to build new lives

We provide advice and support to asylum seekers and refugees in the Bristol area.

Family Service Directory

1 Big Database is a place to find out about organisations, support, events and other useful things going on in your area

SPACE works with children, women and men threatened with homelessness in and around Bristol.

Tips to help kids struggling with speech

An online community sharing information to help children of all ages overcome problems with stuttering.

Volunteers make things happen

Big Wide Talk creates space for children, watching and listening, letting them learn for themselves. Thousands of participating children have exceeded everyone’s expectations.

Supporting the young Musilm community in Bristol

Find Muslim faith activities and after school groups for young people.

Helping Asian Women to support one another and progress

Humdard is dedicated to giving opportunities to Asian families across the city of Bristol to improve their quality of life. Our services are tailored and in response to meeting the cultural and Islamic needs of Asian Women.

Speech and Language Therapist Call-Back Service

Concerned about a child’s talking, listening and understanding? Are you looking for more information about speech, language and communication?