“The DCUK community is such a valuable and supportive space for DCP. Knowing you are in a safe caring community with people that get it is so special.” – Marcus
“The Facebook group has been invaluable for me as I try and make sense of the DNA revelations.” – Anonymous
“The Donor Conceived UK Community is a vital resource for people, whatever your situation there is advice and guidance available to navigate your way through this information. It is a community of supportive and encouraging individuals who genuinely want to help each other. It has been instrumental in helping my process my own late discovery and a resource I have come to rely on.” – Hollie
“Following my first event DCUK event on 22 March 2025, I now have a much fuller understanding of just how involved this amazing team is within our community. I was hugely excited to hear how DCUK are continuing the good fight and can’t wait to get involved with my own personal contributions. I salute you all and please keep doing what you’re doing!” – Lisa
“DCUK is an absolutely vital group who support and help donor-conceived people” – Billie
“DCUK provides a unique community where I can openly talk about my experiences of being donor conceived and others can relate. It has been so important in shaping my own realisation about my feelings surrounding being donor conceived and allowed myself and others to talk without the judgement, shame or ignorance that can sometimes be felt from others.” – Sophie
“I find this community really caring and thoughtful. Each of us has had a different route with similar experiences which are respected. I feel that people in this community are open to be educated on the nuisances of donor conception and are open and compassionate to others, research and historic stories.” – Becca
“Late discovery has been a traumatic episode in my life and something that I am learning to navigate on a daily basis. Donor conception can be foundation shaking and incredibly complicated to make sense of from the emotional, relational to political and everything in between. It has also felt isolating since the people I would normally turn to in times of trouble are at the heart of this deception and I don’t know a single other DC person in my private friendship groups. I am so incredibly grateful to have found this community and an organisation so well placed to support me through the hardest moment of my life. Their knowledge, experience, advice and support have felt like a lifeline for which I will forever look back at with gratitude. Thank you DCUK for all the amazing work you do.” – Edwina
“This group has been fundamental and my safe place since the end of May. From the moment I was told I was potentially DC the website was easy to find, navigate and reach out for support. Laura you emailed me back with such kind words, reassurance that I was not alone and sound advice which lead me to this Facebook group.
Finding this community when my world was upside down in stress, confusion, fear and loneliness. It helped by providing a safe place every step of my journey. From finding out, pre DNA testing, DNA test pending worries and then the finale of checking this group 1st when my most incredible match was known before I even messaged my brother P, who by some miracle was also a DCUK community member. This alone gave me reassurance and confidence to message him straight away.
The support from this community from both DCP’s and donors has been exceptional. It feels safe and supportive. I’ve been shown compassion and also we’ve been able to have a laugh about our journey’s with fun storytelling and light hearted humour.
I feel like there is a huge gap for us pre 1991 DCP that needs support. Destroyed medical history, unregulated mess caused by the industry of human creation of times gone by, dealing with life long secrecy by trusted family, sudden missing identities and confusion left to burden us DC babies who have now grown up in a world that was so different to when we were created. Let alone the pressure caused by guilt to continue the secret of those who have kept it for all our lives. I have even felt guilty and ashamed that this happened to me!
Happy to help in any way I can to keep this lifeline going.” – Rachel