Local Community Groups

During the current COVID-19 crisis we have had to revise the way that we deliver our community groups and have developed a whole host of online meet-ups and webinars from special guest speakers. All members should have received details of these activities by email, but they are also listed on a page which you can only view if logged in as a member. When logged in you will be able to click on the button below:

Find out about the Members' virtual community groups and webinars here:

Adoption UK Community Groups provide members of Adoption UK with opportunities to connect, socialise and support each other. Groups are run by volunteers who are experienced adopters and our aim is for every adoptive family in the UK to have access to a fun, supportive, peer support network in their local area.

Not a member of Adoption UK? No worries – you are very welcome to attend your first event as a guest. You can then become a member ahead of the second meet up.

Know another adoptive family who would like to come along? Please let them know about the group and they too will be welcome as a guest for the first session.

We currently run community groups in the following areas/cities/themes. Below the table, members of Adoption UK who are logged into this site will be able to view contact details for each Group Coordinator. If you are interested in attending your first meet-up as a guest, contact [email protected] for details.

England	Wales	Scotland	Northern Ireland
Bedfordshire	Aberystwyth Evening Group	Ayrshire	Antrim
Buckinghamshire	Aberystwyth After School Meet Up	Borders	Belfast
Cheshire	Cardiff Evening Group	Edinburgh (Mums' Group)	Coleraine
Cornwall	Denbighshire	East Lothian	Dungannon
Devon *New	Newport	Glasgow	Derry-Londonderry
Dorset	Powys	Fife	Down
North East *New	Vale of Glamorgan (Penarth)	Orkney Isles	Newry
East Sussex			North Down
Hampshire	Plus:	Plus:	Omagh-Enniskillen
Isle of Wight	Adult Adoptees Group	Adult Adoptees Network
Kent	Dads' Group	Dads' Group	Plus:
London	Grandparents' Group		Concurrent Carers' Group (Belfast)
Norfolk	Single Adopters' Group		Concurrent Carers' Group (Omagh)
Oxfordshire *New		Coming soon:	LGBT Group
Shropshire		Argyle and Bute	Dads' Group
Surrey		West Dunbartonshire	Single Adopters' Group
Warwickshire *New			Teen and Parents' Group
West Midlands
West Sussex
Yorkshire and Humber

You will need to be a member of Adoption UK and logged into this members' area, to view the full Group details below.

Want to join our community? Find out more on our membership pages

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