Virtual Conference - April 2022 Revisited (price includes one year's discounted DCN membership)

*** Special Offer to non-members ***

In April 2022, we held our annual in-person DCN members' conference in London with some really great talks from parents and others in the donor conception world. We wanted to share the event with more people and so we're running this virtual conference, which includes recordings of the highlights from the presentations, live Q&A and small discussion groups.

As the event is for members, we're offering a limited number of special offer tickets which combine a year's DCN membership with attendance at the event. This gives a £10 discount off the standard fee providing access to all our wonderful member services, including our online chat groups, welcoming team, WhatsApp groups etc.

The Virtual Conference

Hosted by Mark, a long-standing member, our virtual conference will include a recording of the morning panel of parents from April, discussing their route to parenthood. We'll hear from a solo mum through sperm donation, a heterosexual couple mum through egg donation and a gay couple dad who used egg donation and surrogacy. The feedback we received from the presentations was excellent and we thought it was definitely worth giving more members the chance to hear from Sue, Wes and Debbie, who will then be present to do a live Q&A.

We also had great feedback about Dr Sophie Zadeh's fascinating research into how DC children are doing and recognised that all our members would find this valuable. We will be showing a recording of her talk, followed by a live Q&A by her colleague Dr Catherine Jones, as Dr Zadeh is now on maternity leave.

Our conferences are always a lovely opportunity for people to meet others and, although this event is online, we are going to recreate some of that in our virtual small group "meet and greet" break-out rooms. This will preserve the really valuable element of networking, sharing and support that our in-person conferences offer.

Come and join us for a really stimulating afternoon!

Event details:

• The conference is on Saturday, 19th November and is being held in the afternoon from 2pm to 5.30pm to make it more accessible to those outside the UK and those who have activities on a Saturday morning.

• It’s appropriate whether you’re at the early stages of considering donor conception or have children already.

• This is an adult event and the small groups in particular need a bit of private space, so do make sure any children are suitably occupied and not in the same room as you for the duration of the conference.

• Numbers are capped to make sure the Zoom experience isn’t overwhelming.

*We'll contact you after you join with next steps for activating your membership. Head over to our Membership Benefits Page to get a full list of all the services you'll get access to.

See you there,

Jo & the DCN Team