Barclays Bank

Barclaycard Horizons is a three-year, GBP 3 million community programme in the UK that aims to support 50,000 disadvantaged lone parents to work their way out of debt and poverty. Barclaycard is working closely with Citizens Advice, the Family Welfare Association, One Parent Families and Parentline Plus. By the end of 2006, over 30,000 lone parents and their children had been helped by the programme with support ranging from financial literacy training and debt advice to financial support for education related costs.