Welcome

Family Matters Institute is an educational charity specialising in research and training programmes to strengthen marriage and family life in Britain.

We offer services, training and consultancy into the corporate, statutory and government sectors as well as providing training and resources for voluntary, community and faith groups.

Family Relationships

We supply Flat Pack Parent, and other resources and training for parenting of teenagers. More...

We also offer two courses, which are accredited by the Open College Network (OCN), and provide training in facilitation skills for those running parenting courses. More...

FMI is part of a consortium running DadTalk, a social networking site for all things "Dad". More...

Research

Family Matters Institute has undertaken and been involved in numerous research projects on issues affecting family life in the UK, such as the role of grandparents, pornography in the media and under-age . More...

Do Grandparents Matter? report and Press release

Workforce Development

Family Matters Institute can help to equip your workforce with relevant qualifications in family learning, and can help to equip organisations to achieve Every Child Matters outcomes. More...

We are also involved in the Workforce Strategy Partners Programme (WSPP) in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and nationally. This is an initiative of the Childrens Workforce Development Council (CWDC). More...

The Bedfordshire Personal Development Portfolio is now available to download

Family Money Management

As well as providing resources and running training courses addressing money issues within families, we also provide training for those working with families in this field. Our Money Activity Session facilitation skills training course is OCN accredited. More...