Festival Charity

After Adoption are the nominated Festival Charity for the National Winter Ales Festival 2012.

Adoption touches the lives of one in four people in the UK. After Adoption is dedicated to helping children and adults from all walks of life deal with the difference adoption brings to their lives.

Imagine your life as a jigsaw with an important piece missing. This is how millions of children and adults throughout the UK feel everyday.

As a voluntary adoption agency and adoption support charity, working with some of society’s most disadvantaged children and young people, After Adoption finds adoptive families for those children who tend to remain in the care system the longest: older children, brothers and sisters who need to be kept together, children from ethnic minority groups, and children with disabilities.

After Adoption also provides independent adoption support services to adoptive families, adults who were adopted, and birth relatives of those who have been adopted. This includes free national helplines, family-focused services and events, counselling & support groups, targeted projects and help for people trying to find and contact lost relatives.

We help people find the missing pieces and deal with the lifelong impact of adoption, and work to raise awareness and create a better understanding. After Adoption plans to be there for those affected by adoption now and in the future.

For more information or to get involved in our work visit www.afteradoption.org.uk or contact fundraising@afteradoption.org.uk

After Adoption would like to say a huge thank you to everyone involved in helping them raise a fantastic £4,500 from the 2011 Festival!