Ashford Mediation Service provide free, confidential and impartial mediation to residents of the Borough of Ashford. We work with individuals, organisations, authorities or groups involved in or likely to become involved in, dispute or conflict which results from or may lead to acts of nuisance, vandalism, racial abuse, unlawful activity, breach of the peace or breakdown of public order and to advance the education of the public. Our trained volunteer mediators act as peacemakers, helping members of the community to reach a mutually acceptable solution to their problems. Our aim is to help people to live in harmony together in peaceful communities. As a provider of services on community mediation AMS is committed to making communities safer by promoting and developing the provision of alternative methods of dispute resolution. AMS also increasingly works with families with issues such as intergenerational disputes and family breakdown, and with separated parents seeking to establish mutually suitable child access arrangements that best suit the interests of the child and without needing to refer the issue for decision by the Family Courts.