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AAA-NORCAP
A national organisation focussed entirely upon supporting Adults Affected by Adoption
Address: 112 Church Road, Wheatley, Oxon, OX33 1LU
Telephone: 01865 875000 | Email: enquiries@norcap.org
Website: www.norcap.org.uk
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ACeBabes
ACeBabes is a charity run by its members to support the growing number of people who were using assisted conception as a way to bring about their longed for family.
Address: P.O. Box 6979, Derby, DE1 9HY
Telephone: 0845 838 1593 | Email: enquiries@acebabes.co.uk
Website: www.acebabes.co.uk
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Adoption UK
Adoption UK is a national charity run by and for adopters, providing self-help information, advice, support and training on all aspects of adoption and adoptive parenting.
Address: 46 The Green, South Bar Street, Banbury, OX16 9AB
Telephone: 0844 848 7900 | Email: helpdesk@adoptionuk.org.uk
Website: www.adoptionuk.org
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Babycentre
An online resource for new and expectant parents.
Website: www.babycentre.co.uk
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British Association for Adoption (BAAF)
BAAF values and respects the commitment made by foster carers and adoptive parents and believes that a wide range of support services is essential to enable families to parent children separated from their birth families.
Address: Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London, EC1N 8TS
Telephone: 020 7421 2600 | Email: mail@baaf.org.uk
Website: www.baaf.org.uk
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British Infertility Counselling Association (BICA)
BICA aims to encourage and facilitate its members to provide the highest standards of counselling support to people affected by fertility issues.
Telephone: 01372 451626 | Email: info@bica.net
Website: www.bica.co.uk
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Cancerbackup
Cancerbackup merged with Macmillan Cancer Support in April 2008. "We provide the same high quality, expertly developed information about cancer, and now we can make it available to everyone who needs it".
Address: 3 Bath Place, Rivington Street, London EC2A 3JR
Telephone: 0808 800 1234
Website: www.cancerbackup.org.uk
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CHANA
Chana was founded in 1994 by a group of women who were dealing with infertility in their lives. It has since developed into a highly respected, professional, non-profit-making charity, based in and serving the Jewish community.
Address: 23 Ravenshurst Avenue. London, NW4 4EE
Telephone: 020 8203 8455 | Email: info@chana.org.uk
Website: www.chana.org.uk
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Childlessness Overcome Through Surrogacy (COTS)
Providing advice, help and support to surrogates and intended parents.
Address: Moss Bank, Manse Road, Lairg, IV27 4EL
Telephone: 01549 402777 | Email: info@surrogacy.org.uk
Website: www.surrogacy.org.uk
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Daisy Network: Premature Menopause Support Group
The Daisy Network is a registered charity offering support to women who have experienced a premature menopause due to a medical condition or treatment. They offer information and a network of women who are willing to share their personal experiences of premature menopause. Recorded information line.
Address: PO Box 183, Rossendale, BB4 6WZ
Telephone: 0845 122 8616 | Email: daisy@daisynetwork.org.uk
Website: www.daisynetwork.org.uk
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Donor Conception Network
DCN is a network of parents with children conceived with donated sperm eggs or embryos, adult offspring, and those contemplating or undergoing treatment.
Their aim is to support and guide would-be and current parents in the issues they face about how to be open with children about donor conception, thereby avoiding damaging secrets.
Address: PO Box 7471, Nottingham NG3 6ZR
Telephone: 0208 245 4369 | Email: enquiries@dcnetwork.org
Website: www.dcnetwork.org
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Endometriosis UK
Providing 'information and support, and work to increase understanding through campaigning and awareness'.
Address: 50 Westminster Palace Gardens, Artillery Row, London, SW1P 1RR
Telephone: 0207 222 2781 | Email: enquiries@endometriosis-uk.org
Website: www.endo.org.uk
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Fertility Friends
Supporting Assisted Conception, Parenting, Adoption, Surrogacy and Living Child Free. FertilityFriends.co.uk Limited is a Non-Profit UK Registered Company dedicated to providing free support services.
Website: www.fertilityfriends.co.uk
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Genetic Interest Group (GIG)
Genetic Interest Group is the national alliance of voluntary organisations with a membership of over 130 charities which support children, families, and individuals affected by genetic disorders and their families.
Address: Unit 4D, Leroy House, 436 Essex Road, London, N1 3QP
Telephone: 020 7704 3141 | Email: mail@gig.org.uk
Website: www.gig.org.uk
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Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is a statutory body, created in 1991 under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (1990). The HFEA's primary remit is to inspect and license all UK clinics that offer IVF and donor insemination treatments, and all UK-based research into human embryos. The HFEA also regulates the storage of eggs, sperm and embryos.
Address: 21 Bloomsbury Street, London,WC1B 3HF
Telephone: 0207 291 8200 | Email: admin@hfea.gov.uk
Website: www.hfea.gov.uk
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Infertility Network UK (IN UK)
Infertility Network UK 'provides a voice for those with fertility problems, and we are the campaigning movement working to improve awareness and access to treatment'.
Address: Charter House, 43 St Leonards Road, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1JA
Telephone: 0800 008 7464 & 08701 188 088 | Email: admin@infertilitynetworkuk.com
Website: www.infertilitynetworkuk.com
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Inter Country Adoption Centre (IAC)
The IAC aims to ensure that, if people do contemplate adoption from another country, they have the means of making informed decisions, with a clear understanding of the issues involved.
Address: 64-66 High Street, Barnet, Hertfordshire EN5 5SJ
Telephone: 020 8449 2562 | Email: info@icacentre.org.uk
Website: www.icacentre.org.uk
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JAFA
JAFA is the Jewish Association For Fostering and Adoption and Infertility.
Address: 10 Fairview Way Edgware HA8 8JF
Telephone: 0208 952 3638
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The Miscarriage Association
Provides support and information for those suffering the effects of pregnancy loss.
Address: c/o Clayton Hospital, Northgate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF1 3JS
Telephone: 01924 200795. Helpline: 01924 200799 | Email: info@miscarriageassociation.org.uk
Website: www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk
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Multiple Births Foundation
A vital resource to professionals and families alike, it aims to improve the care and support of multiple birth families through the education of all relevant professionals.
Address: Hammersmith House Level 4, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS
Telephone: 0208 383 3519 | Email: info@multiplebirths.org.uk
Website: www.multiplebirths.org.uk
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National Gamete Donation Trust (NGDT)
UK government-funded charity which aims to raise awareness of and alleviate the shortage of sperm, egg and embryo donors.
Telephone: 0845 226 9193 | Email: info@ngdt.co.uk
Website: www.ngdt.co.uk
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OASIS – Overseas Adoption Support and Information Service
A national parent to parent support group for families at all stages of the inter-country adoption process.
Address: Christine Kings, 20 Woodland Terrace, Greenbank, Plymouth, PL4 8NL
Telephone: 0870 241 7069 & 0870 241 7069
Website: www.adoptionoverseas.org
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Pink Parents
A UK national project, managed by The D'Arcy Lainey Foundation aiming to reduce the isolation and discrimination that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered families and families to be face.
Address: Unit 29 Hillier Road, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 2FB
Telephone: 01380 727 935
Website: www.pinkparents.org.uk
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Surrogacy UK
A UK based voluntary organisation that provides information and support for anyone with an interest in surrogacy.
Address: PO Box 451, Potters Bar, Herts, EN6 9DL
Telephone: 01698 293744 | Email: admin@surrogacyuk.org
Website: www.surrogacyuk.org
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TAMBA – Twins And Multiple Births Association
A nationwide UK charity providing information and mutual support networks for families of twins, triplets and more.
Address: 2 The Willows, Gardner Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4PG
Telephone: 01483 304442 | Email: enquiries@tamba.org.uk
Website: www.tamba.org.uk
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UK DonorLink
A pilot voluntary contact register set up to enable people conceived through donated sperm, and / or eggs, their donors and half siblings to exchange information and where desired to contact each other. The register is specifically for anyone over the age of 18 who was conceived using donated sperm or eggs, or who donated, in the UK, before the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act came into force in August 1991.
Address: 31 Moor Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 4BG
Telephone: 0113 278 3217 | Email: info@ukdonorlink.org.uk
Website: www.ukdonorlink.org.uk
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Post Adoption Centre
Provides psychotherapeutic services to adopted adults, adopted children and their families and counselling to birth parents.
Address: 5 Torriano Mews, Torriano Avenue, London, NW5 2RZ
Telephone: 0207 284 5879 | Email: advice@posradoptioncentre.org.uk
Website: www.postadoptioncentre.org.uk
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Verity - The PCOS Self Help Group
A UK charity for women whose lives are affected by Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).
Address: New Bond House, 124 New Bond Street, London, W1S 1DX
Telephone: 0207 284 5879
Website: www.verity-pcos.org.uk