Kids Need Both Parents
Charity 1161707
Overview
Summary
Kids Need Both Parents appears to occupy a distinctive family-breakdown support role: it combines advice-oriented help for adults and wider family members with child-centred emotional support and positive shared experiences. Its formal purposes suggest an ambition to reduce conflict around child contact while protecting children’s wellbeing. The available evidence indicates a small, Birmingham-based organisation whose model may rely more on accessible information, guidance and relationship-building experiences than on a clearly evidenced programme of direct therapeutic or conciliation delivery.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The only substantive description of delivery activity on the Charity Commission register relates to the financial year ended 31 March 2018. The charity's reporting is substantially overdue, so this does not establish that services or Birmingham City F.C. experiences continue in 2026.
- The Charity Commission describes the organisation as Birmingham-based and records support delivered through website information and advice, but gives no current geographic catchment, beneficiary distribution, neighbourhood programme, or service-site list.
- The recorded activity at Birmingham City F.C. would historically indicate a connection to St Andrew's in Birmingham. However, no current evidence confirms that the partnership or events remain active, so this area has not been recorded as a current operational area.
- The Coleshill address is outside Birmingham and may be a correspondence or registered address rather than a service-delivery site.
Additional evidence needed
- A current statement from Kids Need Both Parents identifying active services, delivery locations, and the geographic area from which families are supported.
- A current annual report, trustees' report, or Charity Commission return covering activity after 31 March 2018.
- Current confirmation from Birmingham City Football Club or the charity that family experiences or other joint activity are still being delivered at St Andrew's.
- Current access to the organisation's official website or verified social-media/service information showing whether online advice is nationally available, Birmingham-focused, or linked to local referral routes.
Areas of work
- Other Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A bridge between family conflict and children’s wellbeing
The organisation appears to treat parental separation not only as a dispute between adults, but as a wider wellbeing issue affecting children and extended family relationships.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish KNBP from organisations focused solely on legal advice, mediation or children’s therapy. Its potential role is to connect these concerns rather than address only one of them.
Show evidence
“The charity’s objects include conciliation for couples and families regarding custody and access to children.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity’s objects include protecting children’s physical and mental health through counselling and support, in particular play therapy.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity offers support to children, parents, grandparents and other family members following separation or loss.”
Source:Organisation
Extended family is treated as part of the support system
KNBP appears to recognise grandparents and other relatives as affected participants, and potentially as resources, in children’s lives after separation or bereavement.
Why it matters
This suggests an opportunity to complement services that focus narrowly on parents and children. It may also make KNBP relevant where family support networks are strained or overlooked.
Show evidence
“The charity hopes its support reaches children and parents, as well as grandparents and other family members.”
Source:Organisation“The charity supports families who have gone through separation or loss.”
Source:Organisation
Positive experiences may be a relationship-building mechanism
Partnership activity with Birmingham City F.C. appears to be more than a peripheral benefit: memorable experiences may offer families a non-clinical way to rebuild connection and create positive shared time after disruption.
Why it matters
This points to a potentially distinctive operating model in which community or cultural partners help deliver emotional support indirectly, alongside information and advice.
Show evidence
“The charity provides memorable experiences for children and families at Birmingham City F.C.”
Source:Organisation“The charity provides information and advice through its website.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether conciliation, counselling or play therapy are currently delivered directly, commissioned, or retained only as charitable objects.
- How many families are reached, which communities use the charity, and whether support is primarily local or online.
- The nature, duration and strategic importance of the relationship with Birmingham City F.C.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent service descriptions, referral routes, delivery volumes and outcomes for each type of support.
- Information on partner organisations, funding, staffing and the practical role of Birmingham City F.C.
- Beneficiary feedback showing which family members benefit and what changes they experience.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We are a small charity based in Birmingham offering support to families who have gone through separation or loss. We hope this support not only reaches out to children and parents, but also to grandparents and other family members. KNBP aim to do this through information and advice throughout the KNBP website, and we provide memorable experiences for children and families at Birmingham City F.C.
Charity objects
1) TO PROVIDE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, ASSISTANCE THROUGH CONCILIATION FOR COUPLES AND FAMILIES WHOSE RELATIONSHIPS APPEAR TO BE BREAKING DOWN, AND WHERE SUCH RELATIONSHIPS HAVE ALREADY BROKEN DOWN, TO ADVISE AND HELP IN THE SETTLEMENT OF DIFFERENCES OR POTENTIAL DIFFERENCES OVER ASSOCIATED MATTERS SUCH AS CUSTODY AND ACCESS TO CHILDREN. 2) THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN WHO ARE EXPERIENCING, OR HAVE EXPERIENCED, THE BREAKDOWN OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT, IN PARTICULAR, PLAY THERAPY.