Our Grandparents is the part of our campaign where we support grandparents living with the forced loss of their relationship with their grandchild.
Based on our Savanta survey in 2022, we estimate that an eighth of the population aged 45+ are prevented from forming, developing and sustaining a relationship with their grandchild. This is significant.
Our typologies describe the situations grandchildren and their grandparents find themselves in.
Following the launch of the 'Grandparents United for Children' report in November 2023, our wider grandparent campaign ‘Our Grandparents’ includes our initial support work following that plus a broader set of self-help activities.
Our Grandparents is now part of the Grandchildren's Policy & Rights Centre alongside the upcoming Midlands Model ‘Grandchildren First’ pilots to inform policy and practice change, a scheduled Lobby Your MP programme to secure legal change, our Grandchild-to-Grandchild Doodle Letters production, and of course we continue with both grandparent and grandchild-related webinars’ programmes.
Critical to our mission is that we work with other organisations that support grandparents and we work with grandparents on the ground in lobbying for change in law, policy and practice in relation to our grandchildren and ourselves.
How can you get involved? Please register for an MP lobbying pack here, share the word and attend our webinars, get involved in one of our pilots schemes, or contact us here.
Grandchild-to-Grandchild
To raise awareness of our campaign or to provide an item for a grandchild's memory box, order our new groovy and handmade Doodle Letters produced by grandchildren for grandchildren!
Each letter, approx 10cm x 8cm x 1cm in size, comes with a personalised touch so please select the design theme and colouring on the next page along with the grandchild's name initial.
You may wish to send your MP a Doodle Letter to raise awareness, place a Doodle Letter on your mantelpiece or windowsill, or place one into your grandchild's memory box.
The Doodle Letters are free as part of our awareness raising campaign, but if you would like to give a small donation for your Doodle Letters as a small charity we would be pleased to receive it here:
If you would like to order more than one, please checkout each one separately. After adding your first one to cart, the 'continue browsing' link will take you right back here.
To order, click on the Doodle Letter's image.