Gingerbread (charity) single parents return to the workplace. Gingerbread’s policy and research team works with elected representatives and other policy makers to influence policy and practice on issues relating to single parents. Gingerbread has campaigned against negative stereotyping of single parent families. Their ‘Let’s lose the labels’ and ‘Single parents: you’re brilliant’ campaigns both challenged stigma against single parents. Recently, Gingerbread has campaigned against government proposals to charge parents to use the Child Support Agency, and against cuts to Legal Aid proposed by the Welfare Reform Bill. The records of Gingerbread are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the
Community organization community development is occurred in the wake of World War II. Among them of prime importance are American Red Cross and United Service Organizations(USO), they recruited an immense number of population for volunteer services in the wartime. After the World War II focus of community organization fell into rising problems like rehabilitation of the physically and mentally challenged, mental health planning, destitute problems, abandoned aging population, juvenile delinquency...etc. Historical development of community organization in the U.K is divided into 4 phases by Baldock in 1974. Typically community organizations fall into the following categories: community-service and action, health, educational, personal growth