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According to recent research published in 2026, there are over 350,000 unregulated sperm donors in the UK.

At Donor Conceived UK, we are finding that many Donor Conceived People (DCP) who were created via IVF also turn out to be Donor Conceived.

In the donor conceived experience, it is quite common for Donor Conceived People (DCP) to be estranged from their raising parents.

When you create a Donor Conceived Person (DCP) using anonymous gametes or anonymous embryo’s you are creating a child, a person, a human being, with a stranger. Raising a stranger’s child often comes with many, many complexities. Most of those complexities fall to the DCP, the person who had no choice over how they were…

Below is a letter that a Recipient Mother received from Margaret Jackson in 1980, after she wrote to Margaret Jackson saying that she had read an article (see the article in question below) that stated that children conceived by Artificial Insemination by Donor Semen (AID as it was known in 1980, now Donor Conceived) should…

Name: Stuart Donated: 2006 – 2007 Where donated: Esperance Hospital, Eastbourne I was a donor at the Esperance Hospital in Eastbourne between 2006 and 2007, when I was 34. At the time, it felt like a straightforward and positive thing to do; a way to help people who wanted to become parents. Now, nearly two decades later, the…

Name: Maggie Conceived: 1944 Where conceived: Margaret Jackson clinic, Exeter I discovered I was Donor Conceived last year when I was 80 years old, after doing an ancestry test. Luckily for me it wasn’t a complete shock as I had suspected this for many years. I knew my mother had been a patient of Dr. Margaret…

Name: Amy Conceived: 1996 Where Conceived: Coventry, UK In March 2026, I went back home for the weekend and my whole life changed. My Mum sat me down and dropped a huge bombshell on me. She said my Dad was not my biological father. I had actually been conceived through IVF using donor sperm.  To say this information…

I wanna talk about how deep and complex and difficult and slow figuring out our feelings can be about being conceived this way. I wanna say that I don’t agree with the kind of assessments and percentage type questionnaires that have potential parents going ‘see it’s ok because the HFEA website states that statistically donor…