How We Are Run

One Family is governed by a board of up to twelve people. The board sets the charity’s direction and priorities and ensures the organisation is effective and accountable.  Board members give their time voluntarily and are not remunerated.

One Family Director Karen Kiernan, answers to this board and runs the organisation on a day-to-day basis. The Board meets once every six weeks to develop the overall purpose and direction of One Family, to ensure the charity is financially sound, and to scrutinise performance. Input from people who parent alone and share parenting is crucial to shaping One Family policy.

How we are funded

Most of our income comes from a range of statutory agencies through service agreements, grants and project funding. See our Annual Reviews for a full list.
We comply with standards and reporting requirements in all our funding.
We also receive donations and hold fundraising events with support from the public and the private sector.

Finally we have been working to increase our earned income as our grants and donations decrease. Therefore we charge small, sliding-scale fees for some services, we sell our professional Training & Consultancy products and we provide Financial Services to the community and voluntary sector.

Our finances

Along with most other charities and businesses One Family has seen a steady decline in regular government grants and service fees along with a decrease in the ability of individuals to donate.

We implemented pay cuts from 5-10% in mid 2009 in line with the public sector cuts to ensure services would not be negatively affected. We have also had to cut some overhead costs and remove all discretionary payments. This strong approach to our finances by staff and the Board led Finance Team is ensuring that One Family will get through these bad years so that we can continue our important work with families in cirsis.

You can read our annual reviews here