Charity number: 1135731; Company number: 7117962;
Registered address: Oxford Place Centre, Oxford Place, Leeds LS1 3AX
Maypole is a new charity run by mothers and professionals who understand the stresses separation entails, and the lack of support available for women.
We aim to:
- to promote and protect the good health, and to relieve distress and financial hardship, of women and their families before, during and after separation and divorce
- to promote research into the issues affecting women and children during and after separation and divorce, and disseminate the useful results of such research
- to relieve distress, and promote and protect the good health of children during and after separation and divorce of their parents
Trustees of Maypole Women are:
- Rosalind Moffitt
- Jennifer Heathcote Osborne
- Mavis Maclean
- David Everett.
About us
Why ‘Maypole’?
For hundreds of years the decorated maypole has been a symbol of fertility, celebrating women’s ability to create new life, and bring hope and joy to the world.
The maypole therefore symbolises hope for the future, and each woman’s power to create a new life for herself after separation.
The woven ribbons represent connections with those around us - including our children (if we are mothers), friends and wider family, interwoven with one another, forever joined.
The freedom of the lower ends of the ribbons represent self sufficiency and independence through life.
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How Maypole began
Maypole has been founded
by two mothers whose personal experiences have inspired them to set up for others what they could not find themselves -
specialist support for women involved in separation and divorce.