Rosie Ferguson stood down as chief executive of youth work umbrella organisation London Youth in 2016, after 11 years at the network. After a period spent travelling, she was appointed chief executive of lone-parent charity Gingerbread, taking up the post in February.
What attracted you to Gingerbread?
Gingerbread is a core partner of London Youth's Talent Match London programme, so I first met them through that. I was inspired by the creative ways Gingerbread was supporting young single parents into work by reaching them in soft play centres at times that worked for them. Like young people, single parents are a mainstream proportion of our population, with 25 per cent of families with dependent children headed by a single parent. Yet sadly - and also very familiar to those working with young people - the media and society tends to focus on negative stereotypes rather than seeing their current and potential contribution.
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