Tips on Introducing a New Partner
Concerned about how to introduce a new partner to your kids? Read our advice here from One Family Childcare and Parenting coordinator, Ger Kelly Parenting Tips
Archive for month: February, 2011
Food & Wine feature One Family event
This month’s Food & Wine has a great piece about the One Family food and wine fundraiser held in the RHA – it tells you how to make the irresistible, cost-effective canapés from Fallon & Byrne and suggests affordable Wolf Bass wines to compliment. Thanks to all involved!
Save the date: Family Day, Sunday 15 May 2011
Celebrate Family Day 2011 and be in with the chance to win €1000…
One Family and EBS Building Society invite you to celebrate families on Family Day, Sunday 15 May 2011. You can either
- hold your own fun event – think arts and crafts projects, play days or story telling hours – and/or
- join us for Family Day in The Iveagh Gardens, Dublin 2, from 1-5pm, Sunday 15 May to enjoy our family entertainers, workshops and games – all free of charge. Bring your own picnic!
www.familyday.ie will soon be up and running with details of how to register your event, upload photos of it – and then be in with a chance of winning €1000.
One Family election manifesto published
One Family’s election manifesto has been sent to all the political parties and we will keep you up-dated of any feedback. You can read our manifesto here
Top 3 questions for election 2011
Please make one-parent families an issue in the election by asking canvassers these questions:
1 What will your party do in government to reduce the very high poverty rates experienced by one-parent families?
2 What are your views on the recent social welfare changes that require lone parents whose youngest child is over 14 to go on to Jobseekers Allowance rather than on the One-Parent Family Payment?
3 Do you believe that the definition of the family in the constitution should be changed? (Currently only the marital family is recognised in the Irish constitution). If not, why not?
For a more detailed list of ten questions and helpful up-to-date statistics on one-parent families see here
One Family Director gives talk on charity mergers, 2 March
Karen Kiernan, One Family’s Director, will be giving a talk about collaborations and mergers at a WINSENT (Wales Ireland Network for Social Entrepreneurship) Networking Event at 6.30pm on Wednesday 2 March at Boston College, 42 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2. For Further information see www.winsent.eu
Bric a Brac sale for One Family
The kind people at Honest2Goodness Market are running a Charity Bring and Buy Sale on 26 Feb and 6 March in aid of One Family, at 136a Slaney Close, Dublin Industrial Estate, Glasnevin. It’s the perfect chance to do a spring clean, de-clutter your home – and let the proceeds go to a very good cause. Monies raised will also help Enable. See http://bit.ly/earw88