Adoptee groups
HTBA North London peer support group
Run by How To Be Adopted, we meet on or around the last Friday of the month at lunchtime in East Finchley.
Email hello@howtobeadopted.com.
Informal adoptee meet-ups
How To Be Adopted has linked up adoptees in the following areas of the UK:
🎈Berkshire/Surrey/Hampshire (meet in Bracknell) - * NEW!*
🎈Brighton and Chichester (also worth contacting Dunbar Project as they’re based in Brighton)
🎈Bristol (going strong)
🎈Cardiff / South Wales🎈Oxford
🎈Colchester/Cambridge (early days)
🎈Cornwall (Penzance end) email: penzanceadopteegroup@gmail.com
🎈Devon (Plymouth/South Devon): email: adoptedSW@gmail.com
🎈East Devon & South Somerset - * NEW!*
🎈Edinburgh / Glasgow / Fife
🎈Gloucestershire
🎈Hampshire - SE Hants/ Portsmouth/Eastleigh (early days)
🎈Manchester - Greater (growing well)
🎈North London
🎈Oxford
🎈Tunbridge Wells and Hastings (early days)
🎈West Midlands/Worcestershire
We also have adoptees wanting to be linked up in:
🎈Coventry
To be linked up with your local group, email: hello@howtobeadopted.com If you know of any more adoptee peer support groups, please let us know.
Other groups we’ve been asked to promote:
Derbyshire Lotus Group: derbyshirelotus@yahoo.com
Nottingham adoptee group: bucklanddarren@gmail.com
Surrey/South London: joanna@joannahowecounselling.co.uk
“Really got some strength and validity from the last meeting which has affected my wellbeing in a positive way. Thank you so much for setting up How To Be Adopted, the support even at two sessions has been invaluable. I feel like I truly belong somewhere from the very start!”
Members of the North London adoptees group after enjoying coffee and cake in the park
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