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Donor Conceived UK This new name reflects our widening ambitions in terms of support, education and advocacy

🧡We had such a lovely time on Saturday at our latest DCR Registrants Panel/ DCUK London gathering. It’s been a hard six ...
29/09/2026

🧡We had such a lovely time on Saturday at our latest DCR Registrants Panel/ DCUK London gathering. It’s been a hard six months for DCUK and we were so glad to be back in the room at The Foundling Museum a place steeped in the history of children, identity and the evolving meaning of family.

💙While our experiences are different, it feels powerful to gather in a space that holds so many stories about belonging, record keeping and the lifelong impact of early decisions.

🧡We really have come a long way in the last few years and we wouldn’t be anywhere without this wonderful community so whether you’ve been supporting fellow DCPs and the wider community for years or whether this was your first meeting. Thank you for showing up for yourselves and each other.

🧡Huge thank you to Nick for sharing his journey with everyone I also hope this can be the first of many opportunities for different voices from our community to be heard as no two donor conception stories are the same.

💙There can also be something powerful and potentially healing in being able to speak your own story aloud and have it witnessed by others.

🧡 We also shared some headlines of the inaugural DCUK Community Survey, we’re so grateful that so many of you took the time to contribute to that- more to come on that once we’ve delved through all the data!

Donor Conception has made the headlines!! Our Founder, Laura Bridgens, is quoted in this BBC article. FINALLY, Donor Con...
18/08/2026

Donor Conception has made the headlines!!

Our Founder, Laura Bridgens, is quoted in this BBC article.

FINALLY, Donor Conceived UK is getting a voice in the UK mainstream press!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75gv9xnr3po?fbclid

Multiple children are feared to have been conceived using s***m and egg donors which were not the ones selected by the parents.

There are many similarities of trauma that Donor Conceived People (DCP) and adoptees can experience...https://www.thegua...
18/07/2026

There are many similarities of trauma that Donor Conceived People (DCP) and adoptees can experience...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/britain-apology-scandal-forced-adoption-babies-mothers?fbclid=IwY2xjawTIbjVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe_pbWsOv_PtDNHt7izqjvwdYWJbslmS0657xg8r_r2NWr6PskZC-GoVSSoRg_aem_qar62PDPEbAxwkQ7pQxbCA

An estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976. I was one of them, says Guardian news editor and writer David Batty

EHSRE paper published on the 8th July 2026: "ESHRE considers that the wellbeing of donor-conceived people should have th...
13/07/2026

EHSRE paper published on the 8th July 2026: "ESHRE considers that the wellbeing of donor-conceived people should have the highest priority when determining limits on the number of donor offspring per gamete donor."

https://academic.oup.com/humrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humrep/deag108/8726004

AbstractSTUDY QUESTION. How should the number of offspring per gamete donor be regulated at an international level?SUMMARY ANSWER. The European Society of

Some feedback from an attendee at our recent Donor Conceived UK meeting in central London...
02/06/2026

Some feedback from an attendee at our recent Donor Conceived UK meeting in central London...

It's International Donor Conception Awareness Day 2026!For Donor Conceived UK the day is about raising awareness about D...
27/04/2026

It's International Donor Conception Awareness Day 2026!

For Donor Conceived UK the day is about raising awareness about Donor Conceived People’s experiences across their lifespan, including the topic of access to genetic information, (including health information) and lifting shame and secrecy around the topic.

This year we’re spotlighting the impact of DNA testing.

The ConnecteDNA project explored how online DNA testing is being used by Donor Conceived People, donors, parents,
and their families and the contents are rich in insight.

We’re excited to now share this incredible resource created as a legacy to the project with you!

https://donorconceiveduk.org.uk/donor-conceived-information/our-support-for-dcp/

https://donorconceiveduk.org.uk/others-impacted/our-support-for-donors/

https://donorconceiveduk.org.uk/recipient-parents/

🧬🧬🧬It’s DNA Day! 🧬🧬🧬National DNA Day is celebrated annually in the UK and globally on April 25th to commemorate the 1953...
25/04/2026

🧬🧬🧬It’s DNA Day! 🧬🧬🧬

National DNA Day is celebrated annually in the UK and globally on April 25th to commemorate the 1953 discovery of DNA’s double helix structure by Watson, Crick, Wilkins, and Franklin, and the 2003 completion of the Human Genome Project. It highlights advances in genomic research, medicine, and ancestry.

🧬The Donor Conceived UK team are all set up at The Surrogacy UK Conference to spread our message.

🧬They will be speaking on the topic of…

📣What Happens When We Grow Up: Lessons from the UK’s Donor Conception History

“Donor Conceived UK will present on the history of donor conception and the law around this in the UK, the impact of commercial DNA testing in relation to donor conception, and what these lessons mean for modern surrogacy arrangements involving donors and long-term wellbeing of donor conceived people.”

Wish them luck! 🍀

I know it's Sunday and you just want a bit of peace, but Donor Conceived UK need your help - and I promise it won't take...
19/04/2026

I know it's Sunday and you just want a bit of peace, but Donor Conceived UK need your help - and I promise it won't take a moment.

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This is a powerful and important piece highlighting the kinds of fertility fraud and failures that are still happening t...
01/04/2026

This is a powerful and important piece highlighting the kinds of fertility fraud and failures that are still happening today. It demonstrates the impact on donor-conceived people and their families in very real and lasting ways.

At Donor Conceived UK, we are particularly grateful for 12-year-old James’s honesty in sharing how upsetting it is to learn that your identity is not what you thought it was. His experience reflects something deeply familiar within the donor-conceived community. Many people recognise that moment of discovery as profoundly disorienting, raising questions about identity and belonging.

BBC: How did you feel when you saw your DNA results?

James: Upset, like because you can't just say someone is this and then they are not. Because that's like, bad. They said I'm Danish, but I'm not, and that's important.. It's not like saying 'oh this person eats a lot of chocolate cake....' But IDENTITY is the main thing, its who you are as a person.

What happens when the IVF s***m or egg donor you choose isn’t the one you get?

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