BGSG Website Update.

Just to let you know that the Bristol Grandparents Support Group is being updated so you may not be able to access the website for a short time.
You can always contact me via this blog.
Jane
www.bristolgrandparentssupportgroup.co.uk

Grandparents website.

If you can not find information here on the blog that you are looking for, visit the website www.bristolgrandparentssupportgroup.co.uk
Jane

Grandchild didn't get the chance to a loving relationship with grandparent.

My thoughts today are with the Dad who has just heard that his own father has passed away, a grandfather who never got to know his granddaughter because of the injustice of the UK Family Court System, a system that allows children to be prevented in having a meaningful, loving relationship with both parents and extended family.
A system that does not accept or recognise that Parental Alienation is fact, that one parent can inflict such damaging actions on another, making a child believe that one of their parents or grandparents no longer loves or cares for them, that in some way they are evil.
How do these perpetrators of alienation live with themselves, because they know what they are telling the children is lies, how do they live with themselves when a parent or grandparent of the child dies?
Sadly sometimes it is too late.
Jane
www.bristolgrandparentssupportgroup.co.uk

Funding problems for charities.

It is a difficult time for all charities, with funding being cut the need for looking at different ways of raising funds has to be addressed, if they are going to be able to continue offering help and advice.
So many support groups are a life line to thousands of people at a time of vulnerability.
I am sorry to hear of various organisations having to make  very difficult decisions, even if they can continue.
At times like these the obvious way to raise funds is by allowing companies etc to use your group for advertising.
The concern for me is that in the case of family issues, it is more than likely to be those from the legal services sector, primarily solicitors.
It may be that they will offer a discount if you use their services, solicitors know that they are targeting a captive audience, the organisations will promote particular solicitors.
Don't get dragged into thinking they are doing you a favour, they aren't, they are in business and need your hard earned cash.
As I have said before, if you make the decision to go down the legal route, choose your solicitor carefully, just because there is an advert on a charity website doesn't necessarily mean they are the right ones for you, get costs up front, don't end up like many grandparents who use their life savings and still no contact.
Charities and organisations  need to be thinking more creatively as to how to raise funds.

Jane
www.bristolgrandparentssupportgroup.co.uk

Written Submissions -get yours in NOW!

Written submissions now being accepted on the Children's and Families Bill

http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2013/february/have-your-say-on-the-children-and-families-bill/

Jane

Families Need Fathers funding to stop from Cardiff Council.

Another very good reason to remain an independent support group, as Cardiff Council stop 100% funding for Families Need Fathers.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonline/cardiff-news/2013/01/31/cardiff-council-s-draft-budget-the-proposed-cuts-at-a-glance-91466-32723273/

Scotland Democracy- Members business Families Need Fathers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/scotland-21608445

Jane
www.bristolgrandparentssupportgroup.co.uk