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!”
Other groups for adopted people in the UK
Adopted adult support group run by Adopt North London
If you live in, or were adopted in, Hackney, Islington, Barnet, Islington, Haringey or Camden you should be eligible to join this adoptee support group. Call 020 7527 4777 or email north@adoptlondon.org.uk
Transracial Adult Adoptee Network (TAAN) group
Network and support group for transracial adult adoptees. We meet in London (Angel) six times a year. adoptionsupportduty@islington.gov.uk
Adopt London South
Currently online, moving to face-to-face in Southwark. The group meets on Tuesday at 7pm. Natalie.bendall@southwark.gov.uk
Group for Korean adoptees
Monthly lunch together in London, open to all Korean adoptees, not just British ones. britishkoreanadoptees@gmail.com
Intercountry adoptees and transracial adoptees
ICAV UK is a group for intercountry adoptees and transracial adoptees across the UK. There’s an online group and they run events too. Find out more
Adoption Connections North West
Run by Gilli Bruce. Held via Zoom and open to anyone, not just North West folk. Third Thursday of the month, 12.30pm. postadoption@adoptionmatters.org
PAC-UK support group for adoptees
Run by Gilli Bruce. Held on the third Wednesday of the month at 7pm, for PAC-UK clients only at this time. advice@pac-uk.org
The Adoption Support Group
Open to adoptees over 18, birth relatives and adoptive relatives. Facilitated by an adoptee and birth mother. Meetings every other month online or in Milton Keynes. jan.shine@hotmail.co.uk
Adoption UK
There are two monthly groups for adoptees, membership@adoptionuk.org.uk.
Adopteens in Yorkshire and Humber (age 11-18+)
Open to any adoptee aged between 11 -18+ who lives in Yorkshire or Humber. See Adopteens website.
Adoption UK Wales: age 18-25
This group meets a few times a year either online or in person. Ann.Bell@adoptionuk.org.uk
Hertfordshire Adoptees Together
The group meets on the first Tuesday of every month in St Albans from 7-8.30pm. adultadopteestogether@hertfordshire.gov.uk
PAC-UK group meeting in Reigate
Funded by Adoption Southeast, this group is open to anyone in East or West Sussex (including Brighton) and Surrey. jacqui.dowling@pac-uk.org
Members of the North London adoptees group after enjoying coffee and cake in the park
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