We find out about the role of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales, what 2026 will bring for them and how we can access their services.

We chat with a C4C youth volunteer who has been part of the project for almost 3 years about what they’ve learnt about themselves and what other organisations can do to support those from a Single Parent Household.

We chat with Gemma Watkins from NAS Swansea, a volunteer led branch of The National Autistic Society.

Leila Connolly from SPW Partner The Outdoor Partnership chats to us about their work to support people across all of Wales and other regions in the UK, to take up outdoor activities as a life-long pursuit.

SPW Partner Zoe Murphy chats to us about Out Loud Arts Collective CIC, founded to champion inclusivity, working-class representation in the arts sector and to support personal growth through creativity and how the organisation began as a way to make space for voices that are too often left out of the conversation.

Over time many single parents become part of a blended family with all the joys and struggles that entails. Single Parents Wellbeing has embraced blended families as part of its Community and is developing projects and support activities for blended families as part of its Strategic Direction for 2026. 

Jackie Fisher, who has been a part of the leadership team in SPW from the start, shares her blended family story.

Talia chatted with some of our Young People and their parents to see how folks in our community are spending their Christmas Day.

Among these, we share some of the difficult things we are anticipating, mixed with some of the brighter/more heart warming things we are grateful for!

Whatever your Christmas day is looking like this year, we hope you know you are not alone and that you can create your own unique, wonderful way of doing things! 

Looking for co-parenting apps in the UK? A practical guide for single parents, including free and low-cost options like TalkingParents and AppClose.

Roy Ghoshal (He/Him), a Youth Action Academy Member and Events and Engagement Officer for SPW has written this blog to help us navigate the online world safely with our children/teenagers. 

Roy Ghoshal (He/Him), a Youth Acton Academy Member and Events and Engagement Officer for SPW has written this blog to help young people stay safe online. There are tips and resources to help with online safety, cyberbullying, setting boundaries and identifying AI.

We chat with Samuel about his experience of being transgender and how Single Parents can best support their children who may be questioning their gender.

A few of our wonderful YAA volunteers had a cinema social to watch 'I swear', an incredibly inspiring and emotive film based on a true story about a teenager who developed Tourette Syndrome. With teary eyes, we chatted about the film afterwards and Rhea went on to write up this superb movie review! We were also chatting about more ways we, at SPW can continue to uphold inclusivity, accessibility and acceptance! 

Following a recent YAA Focus Group Session with Public Health Wales we chat with YAA Katie Law as she opens up about the value of sleep and the difference it makes.

The MHM team met up with our Youth Action Academy for some reverse mentoring to hear about the issues that are really impacting them and what we can do to better support our young people.

SPW reflects on the courts removal of the assumption of parental involvement.

Every year we are asked by our funders to report and let them know how we are impacting the community and the people we work with.  The National Lottery Community Fund that supports the Mental Health Manifesto - Action For Our Future project, has asked us to report on our third year and below is a summary of the report.

“My favourite thing about being a C4C is all the people that can support you”. The Main Themes from our Mental Health Manifesto Project from April - June 2025

We chat with SPW member Sara Wilson about their experiences of Menopause and the impact our mumapause group has had on her.

We chat with Liv Pollard about their experiences of being a young person with ADHD and the changes they would make to help school children.

SPW Partner GO Wales chat to us about their work connecting university students with SME business in Wales.