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Inner City Road Work + Trains are free for Father’s Day

The Newmarket Viaduct will be closed for around 36 hours from 5pm Saturday to late Sunday night. Train trips will be free throughout Auckland’s rail network during this period to accommodate traffic. The motorway’s southbound lanes will be closed between the Gillies Ave off-ramp and Greenlane interchange which is being considered to have the [...] [...]

Children’s Brain Development

I was very fortunate to be invited to Family First’s ‘Forum of the Family’ where I got to listen to speakers who care about families and children. I was very impressed with the way they understood and spoke about single parents and their families. None of it was, “They’re oppressed, they’re disabled, they’re doomed, they’re [...] [...]

Start of the week!

Starting the week on a Tuesday is great fun, especially after a weekend away – left Friday, returned Monday. As always, people are fantastic, the Bay of Plenty is beautiful and I’m feeling relaxed and motivated after the break……… Actually, I’m sick but that’s not going to stop a good attitude, lol. Which reminds me, we [...] [...]

A call to single parent Fathers

Being a gender neutral single parent support group means we support both fathers and mothers and next week is Waitakere’s Dad4Life: Focus on Fathering Week (Monday 30 August – Sunday 5 September 2010). It’s a week to celebrate fatherhood, present issues father’s face to community groups and the wider public and a week where men will [...] [...]

Support for single parents with teens

I received a phone call today from manager John Donaghy of Birthright. Birthright is an organisation that was established in 1955 and although they don’t have a group in Auckland any more, they have many groups around the country. We had a wonderful conversation about single parents and teenagers and the need for single parents [...] [...]

Christmas Holiday Camping Trip

Camping’s great fun – something adults and children alike keep as fond memories. What could be better during the Christmas School Holidays than a week including New Year’s Eve being celebrated with a camping ground full of other fun families and singles? The outdoors all day, children running around and making special friends, adults enjoying [...] [...]

How to log-in, access your profile, make changes and subscribe.

When you register as a member of ASPT, you also become a member of our website so it’s important you know how to use it. Below are easy to follow instructions for you to know what to do once you are given a username and password. The easiest way to follow these instructions is to [...] [...]

Welcome to Auckland Single Parent’s Trust on FACEBOOK.

Hello World! It’s been a challenge connecting Auckland Single Parent’s Trust to facebook – let me tell you – I have a new found admiration for those who work in IT……. Anyways, I’m very pleased it’s finally ‘done and dusted’ so to speak and look forward to publishing some excellent articles on topics I’ve got sitting [...] [...]

Home coming!

This’ll bring tears to your eyes! [...]

An update about monthly support meetings

From left to right: Me (Julie), Jenny, Achint and Linda At our last central Auckland meeting, we adults came up with a few ideas that we think will benefit the group. We considered how we have 3 areas with monthly meetings and still need to set up Sth Auckland. By the way, a little birdie told [...] [...]