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Becoming A Family...
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The Help of a Donor

When: Saturday 14^th September 2024

Time: 8:45am to 4:30pm

Where: The Malone Hotel, 60 Eglantine Ave, Malone Rd, Belfast BT9 6DY

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Sep 14

Becoming A Family…With the Help of a Donor

The Malone Hotel - 60 Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 6DY

When : Saturday 14^th September 2024

Time : 8:45am to 4:30pm

Where :
The Malone Hotel,
60 Eglantine Ave,
Malone Rd,
Belfast,
BT9 6DY

This Conference is for you
if you

Are considering the use of donation to form a family

Have children following donor conception treatment

Are considering donor treatment in Spain

Are wondering how to talk with your son/daughter about their donor conception

Sep 14

Becoming A Family…With the Help of a Donor

The Malone Hotel - 60 Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 6DY

To Attend This Event In

Event Speakers

Kate Litwinczuk

Kate is a donor conceived adult who talks and writes about donor conception and her experiences of being donor conceived.

Hayley King

Hayley King is an advocate, campaigner and founder of ‘All Things Donor Conception’, a website dedicated to sharing information and resources for donor conceived people, their parents, and donors.

Gareth Landy

Gareth Landy is a professional speaker with expertise and lived experience of XXY.

Elaine Hill

Elaine will share her journey through egg donation at IVF Spain in Alicante which ended in success.

Dr Vasanti Jadva

Dr Vasanti Jadva is a Reader in Psychology at City, University of London.

Dr Ishola Agbaje

Dr Agbaje currently works as an NHS Consultant Gynaecologist & Infertility Specialist in the Belfast Trust.

Danya Harris

Danya Harris has been processing applications for information from donor-conceived people, their parents and donors at the HFEA since 2017.

Some things to think about before you attend

We look forward to meeting you at our “Becoming a Family” event on Saturday 14^th September 2024.

Up until lunchtime we have arranged a great lineup of speakers for you.

After lunch each speaker will be offering smaller group meetings. Each meeting will run twice. Once, immediately after lunch and the same topic repeated following the mid-afternoon refreshment break.

You will therefore have an opportunity to attend two different small groups in the afternoon.

You don’t need to select these now, though we thought you might like to see the options available.

When you arrive at our event on 14^th September, we will ask you to tell us which group you wish to attend after lunch and which one you wish to attend following the refreshment break.

Because of the size of the rooms, we will have to limit the numbers attending each session.

Here are the topics available:

Identity Release for those aged 1-5yrs conceived following egg donation – facilitators Dr Vasanti Jadva and Danya Harris
Openness – Reflections on 30yrs of being donor conceived – facilitator Kate Litwinczuk
Becoming a Family, Egg Donation in Spain – facilitator Elaine Hooks
Becoming a Family, Man to Man – facilitator Gareth Landy
‘“I don’t share my child’s DNA – I’m ok with this……most of the time” – facilitator Hayley King