Charity number: 1135731; Company number: 7117962;
Registered address: Oxford Place Centre, Oxford Place, Leeds LS1 3AX
Welcome to Maypole
Maypole has been developed by women who have experienced separation, divorce and the family court system, and want to help other women going through the process now.
Maypole is also supported by professionals who work with women experiencing separation and divorce.
Our aims are to reduce the stress of parental separation for women and their children, and to ensure parental separation is safe and fair for all. We also aim to raise awareness of the issues facing women, and campaign for women’s needs to be taken into account in the family law process.
Our web site provides information to help you through the difficult changes that separation can bring. If you cannot find the information you want, please let us know, and we will do our best to find what you need.
If you would like support now, please contact us.
If you have been affected by any of the issues
mentioned on this site, would like support,
or have ideas about how things could be better
for women and children
please contact us
Disclaimer: Maypole seeks to offer women information and support, and raise awareness of issues which could arise before, during and after separation and divorce. Statements are supported by independent experiences and academic research. Full references will be available in our information leaflets, available later. However, we advise also seeking professional and independent legal advice before taking any action.
How to support your children through a family breakup
New research:
Maypole’s latest report:
Valuing Motherhood- meeting the needs of women and children at separation and divorce
Research from Australia:
Family Law aids abusive fathers, imperils children
Shared care parenting and family violence - three reports on the 2006 Australian family law reforms
See Research for summary of the above
More recent English research:
Court conciliators routinely ignore, reframe, or reject allegations of domestic abuse
In the media:
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