Introducing
Our Grandparents
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Our Grandparents is the part of our work where we support grandparents living with the forced loss of their relationship with their grandchild.
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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.
Particularly as disconnection, estrangement and alienation in families is know to have detrimental effects both physically and psychologically.
Our typologies describe the situations grandchildren of all ages find themselves in.
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Critical to our mission is that we work with other organisations that support grandparents. This is alongside our work with grandparents on the ground in influencing policy and practice primarily in relation to grandchildren but with recognition of the needs of grandparents.
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How can you get involved? Please register for information and action packs here, share the word and attend our upcoming webinars, get involved in one of our pilots schemes, or contact us here.
NEW We now have a page of useful resources e.g. websites, articles, and podcasts that grandparents of all typologies may find helpful.
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If you find any further, please drop us the weblink and we will add it here. Thank you.
MPs and your grandchildren
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We know that due to shame, embarrassment, professional risks, personal safety and many other reasons, grandparents who have been forced to discontinue their relationship with their grandchildren do not openly talk about their situation.
As well as grandchildren often being told by a parent never to speak about their grandparent again, we also know that no emotional wellbeing assessment tool in school or elsewhere asks a child or young person if they have been disconnected from their (safe) grandparent or other close family member. No-one asks.
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This means it is a hidden issue for both the grandchild and grandparent. This is an unacceptable burden, especially for the grandchild.
We aim to address this hiddenness and bring family disconnecting, estranging or alienating into the open, highlighting the short, medium and long-term impacts on grandchildren of all ages.
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We are asking grandparents and family members to make their MP aware of this hidden issue that has such consequences for grandchildren, who do not have a voice of their own.
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Click below to access our awareness-raising information.
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