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Exhibitors for 2011 

If you  are interested in exhibiting please contact us: linda@alternativefamilies.co.uk / 020 7258 1777

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The LWC provides IVF and fertility treatments to assist couples and individuals overcome their difficulties in conception and pregnancy. They have over 20 years’ experience and operate one of the most successful programmes in the world

  www.londonwomensclinic.co.uk

OFFICIAL LEGAL PARTNER

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Is a niche firm of national and international renown dealing with all aspects of family law and private client.  This user friendly and highly regarded team has expertise and frequently acts in cases involving civil partnership, same sex couples, surrogacy and adoption (including inter-country).

www.dawsoncornwell.com

OFFICIAL SURROGACY PARTNER

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Over just the past 8 years, the BSC have matched over 35 couples and singles with surrogates, both traditional and gestational, and with egg donors, producing 45 babies! All of these couples have been matched with surrogates in the USA.  Now with recent law changes in the UK and the positive encouragement from the UK community as a whole, we bring you The British Surrogacy Centre, dedicated to building families of the future and giving ordinary people the chance to have a family of their own.  www.britishsurrogacycentre.com



OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNERS

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The lesbian, gay and bisexual charity.  Stonewall played a key role in lobbying for important legislative changes for gay and lesbian parents.

www.stonewall.org.uk
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The UK's premier sperm bank. Giving women in the U.K. maximum choice without having to undertake expensive travel abroad.  The LSB is licensed by the HFEA.  


www.londonspermbank.com


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Pride Angel is a leading worldwide connection site, fertility forum and blog for lesbian, gay, single and infertile couples, wishing to become parents through co-parenting and donor conception.  www.prideangel.com
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British Association for Adoption and Fostering. Family finding, publications, training, conferences, consultancy, campaigning and advice. www.baaf.org.uk

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If you want a baby we want to help...We offer fertility treatment in Denmark. We are one hour direct flight from London, have a high success rate, no waiting list, have both anonymous and open sperm donors to choose from and to top it all its less that £500 per IUI. www.diersklinik.co.uk
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European Sperm Bank provides patients with donor choices. They select donors very carefully and use industry-leading donor screening procedures strictly in line with EU regulations.  www.europeanspermbank.com

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The Center for Surrogate Parenting, based in Maryland as well as California, has been helping couples become parents for over 30 years and our first gay couple became parents in 1987.  We have never had a surrogate refuse to relinquish a child or had a couple be denied entry to their home country with their baby.  CSP is a fully comprehensive program.  We offer you pre-screened surrogate mothers, with medical insurance, fully psychologically and medically screened.  No wait for a pre-screened surrogate.

www.creatingfamilies.com
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The firm is a highly professional City based law firm dealing with almost every issue encountered in the LGBT community, both in daily life or in business. We take a no-nonsense approach to the law in that we do not use unnecessary or complicated legal jargon with clients, but provide concise legal advice that can be understood. Every stage is taken at your own pace.  We have a wealth of experience because our team comes from a variety of backgrounds with varying levels of experience

www.aciltylawfirm.co.uk

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As the largest surrogacy agency of its kind anywhere in the world, Growing Generations is a recognized leader in providing services to a wide range of family types including gay and lesbian, heterosexual, single, and persons with HIV *. Our professional staff is highly trained and educated to assist Intended Parents, surrogates, egg donors and sperm donors throughout the entire family creation process.
www.growinggenerations.com
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At Bourn Hall Clinic we provide a friendly and supportive fertility service. As the world’s first IVF clinic, established by the pioneers Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards, we continue to set international standards for clinical excellence and exceptional care. We have well established sperm, egg sharing and donation programmes and Bourn Hall was the first clinic to offer IVF host surrogacy.  We strive to maintain excellent success rates and strongly believe that every journey is different and every treatment individual. Our clinics are located in Bourn, Cambridgeshire and Colchester, Essex with satellite services in Norfolk. www.bourn-hall-clinic.co.uk


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L Group Families supports lesbians by providing specialist information and advice on the different services within the marketplace in order that they can make informed choices on the best treatment and options available to them and enjoy the prospect of parenthood. Our aims are:To provide support, information and advice to lesbians who are thinking about starting a family, (now or in the future); and to provide a support service to lesbian parents, carers and their children.www.lgroupfamilies.org.uk
 
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The Surrogacy Experience is a gestational surrogacy and egg donation agency dedicated to being an impartial resource of knowledge and experience for couples and individuals wishing to explore the possibility and complexity of gestational surrogacy and/or egg donation. Our carrier and egg donor programs and rigorous pre-screening process were designed to provide the most qualified carriers / donors to alleviate unnecessary wait time and anxiety for intended parents.  TSE is comprised of a group of professionals with an extensive network of medical, mental health, insurance and legal professionals dedicated to fulfilling your goals of building a family.  www.thesurrogacyexperience.com


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North London Adoption Consortium

The North London Adoption Consortium (NLAC) is a partnership of five local authority adoption agencies (Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington) and the voluntary agency Norwood. We all work together to provide the very best possible service for children waiting to be adopted and for those wanting to adopt. Working in partnership means we are able to offer a greater range of choice for children and adopters. By sharing information about waiting children and approved adopters, we are able to find new homes for children in a more efficient and timely manner. www.adoptionnorthlondon.co.uk
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Coram is a niche family law Chambers, with over 65 practitioners specialising in all aspects of family law. We have particular expertise in cases involving children in alternative and same sex families, including surrogacy and adoption matters (both international and domestic). Our dedicated finance team has a wealth of experience in relationship, property and financial issues affecting same sex couples.

Coram is committed to the provision of high quality legal services to the alternative community. www.coramchambers.co.uk



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Surrogacy Abroad Inc. is an International surrogacy agency based in Chicago, dedicated to serving intended parents all over the world by facilitating the surrogacy process with our elite partner clinics in India. We are dedicated to providing our Intended parents with the highest care possible, assisting them along every step of the way.  We even offer a "Live Birth or Money Back Guarantee

www.surrogacyabroad.com
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A different fertility clinic
We offer insemination to lesbians, single women and heterosexuals couples, to whom insemination is a possible solution to childlessness.

A good alternative
We strive to be a good alternative to other fertility clinics and it is important to us that your insemination becomes a caring and personal experience that you can think back on with joy as you sit there with your big belly or with the child you have dreamed of in your arms.

www.storkklinik.dk



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Goodman Ray is a high profile family law firm, headed by the renowned children’s lawyer, Peggy Ray, and  recognised as a “leader in the field”.  We are approachable and friendly and are recognised for our determination in promoting our clients' interests. We  are experienced  in representing gay, lesbian and bi-sexual couples in adoptions (including international), surrogacy and parental order applications, co-parenting arrangements and civil partnerships. www.goodmanray.com
 

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Oregon Reproductive Medicine has among the highest IVF success rates in the world. That’s why patients from around the globe travel to Portland to realize their biggest dream. Gay couples from Europe regularly choose ORM to do their Donor Egg Gestational Carrier cycles because of our success rates of over 80 percent!www.oregonreproductivemedicine.com
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Since 1995 Circle Surrogacy has helped bring more than 400 babies into the world with unmatched success rates in clients becoming parents through egg donor surrogacy. Circle provides a full line of surrogacy and egg donation options, including the "Circle Assurance Program", a complete satisfaction program that offers a choice of specialized clinics at locations throughout the United States, a large selection of egg donors, and swift matching with carefully screened surrogates. www.circlesurrogacy.com

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CARE Fertility is one of the world's leading providers of fertility treatment, genetic diagnosis and screening techniques and associated fertility preservation procedures. At the forefront of IVF science, CARE's Embryologists and Clinicians are able to offer  today's most advanced and effective procedures, some of which were developed through our own research.
www.carefertility.com
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One of the largest, most experienced fertility centers in the USA. Egg donation program 2010 clinical pregnancy rate 79%. Overall success rates among the highest in the USA (Center for Disease Control).  Physicians are board certified reproductive endocrinologists. Services: In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Egg Donation, Gestational Surrogacy, Insemination with Donor Sperm, Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD),

Egg Freezing.  001-866-447-6411 www.ivfnj.com.

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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

Dedicated to licensing and monitoring UK fertility clinics and providing impartial and authoritative information to people considering or going through treatment or donating.
www.hfea.gov.uk


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Kites Children’s Services has been established since 1995 to provide quality services for young people who present with sexual development problems which may lead to sexually harmful behaviour. Kites has a multidisciplinary team providing residential, fostering, education and aftercare placements all supported by therapeutic services and external consultants. www.kitescs.com

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The To Hatch charity is a UK based online fertility community and advice clinic.

 We provide Twitter and Facebook support, simple and user-friendly information, fertility treatment policies from all NHS PCTs, opinion polls, Fertility Law Basics 123, rate fertility clinics and PCTs and compare the success rates of all fertility clinics based on their ‘Live Birth Rate’, data which has been extracted from the HFEA.

We are unique in many ways just like you are…

www.to-hatch.co.uk
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Reproductive Possibilities, LLC (“RP“) is a surrogate agency owned and operated by Melissa B. Brisman, Esq.  Each year we help hundreds of families grow with the help and support of our compassionate staff.  Our goal is to continue to help intended parents realize their dreams.


Visit our website to learn more about our successes and we hope to help you join the list of happy parents that have worked with our office.

www.reproductivepossibilities.com

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Family/Alternative Family and Fertility Coaching
In a world where so many of us are leaving having children until we get older, the whole question of whether to have children or not can become agonisingly complex whatever your circumstances.   For  heterosexual couples becoming a parent may not be as easy as anticipated leaving you on a never ending rollercoaster of fertility treatments.  For those considering choice single motherhood and same sex couples, the road to parenthood is complex with multiple decisions along the way. For those who decide they don't want children there can be a period of considering 'what next?'  For those who find they cannot have children, suddenly the future can look very different.
www.caroline-spencer.com
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New Family Social is the UK wide support network for LGBT adopters, foster carers and their children.  We have over 450 families and families to be who share advice and encouragement online, and can find others near them in order to build their local support networks.  Most importantly, our regular family events around the UK give our children the confidence of knowing other families like theirs.  www.newfamilysocial.co.uk

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 Manchester Fertility Services has over 25 years of success in helping couples achieve their dream of a family. The clinic has no waiting lists for those needing to use donor sperm to conceive,  treatments include donor sperm insemination, egg-sharing for cheaper IVF and surrogacy.

www.manchesterfertility.com



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Thinking of starting a family? Fertility MOT is a series of simple yet thorough tests, including ovarian reserve and semen anaylsis, for both you and your partner which will tell you in advance any problems which could affect your fertility. You’re given a full report and consultation to explain the results. 



www.fertilitymot.com


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Respecting diversity in family building. New England Fertility a preeminent fertility practice founded in 1991, offers a full spectrum of  programs and services including Egg Donation, Gestational Surrogacy and Gender Selection for its domestic and international patients. We offer immediate availability of experienced gestational surrogates and egg donors representing a broad spectrum of ethnicities and desirable qualities. Our highly qualified clinicians and laboratory professionals look forward to working with you in a compassionate and collaborative manner. Please visit stand to complete an information card and meet with our medical director, Dr. Gad  Lavy FACOG New England Fertility. For more information contact  or to schedule a pre consult with Dr. Lavy  please email Marion Welch at mwelch@nefertility.com

www.nefertility.com

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South West London Consortium

The South West London Adoption Consortium is a partnership of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, the London Boroughs of Merton, Richmond upon Thames and Sutton and the voluntary adoption agency Action for Children. Our primary aim is to match children with adopters with as little delay as possible. Working in partnership and sharing resources means we can offer a greater range of choice for children and adopters.
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Incorporated in 1975, Xytex has become a global provider of donor sperm to healthcare professionals and their patients.  Xytex offers an extensive donor listing and provides the most donor information of any sperm bank, including adult photos. We also guarantee minimum of 25 million motile sperm per milliliter; no sperm bank offers more.
www.xytex.com
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Stylish, sophisticated parenting accessories to help you on your journey into parenthood.
 
The award winning MELOBABY all-in-one nappy wallet + change mat holds everything you need for changing a baby + MELOTOTE the nappy bag you won’t want to live without with all the right pockets in all the right places.

www.melobaby.com
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IVF treatment in Hungary
Smart Choice Medical Travel is the exclusive medical service operator for fertility treatments of Robert Karoly Private Clinic. The Private Clinic is one of the most experienced reproductive centre in Hungary, situated in the centre of Budapest. We provide full range of coordination and advanced fertility treatments at the Clinic, ranging from insemination to IVF with ICSI and minimal invasive gynaecological and reproductive endoscopic surgeries. With preparing our Patients for all the consultations and treatments and with our continuous caring support, our aim is to make sure that our Patients feel in safe hands and they are satisfied with the treatments while their stay in Hungary... to feel like home!"
www.scmedicaltravel.co.uk

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PACT is a charity working in and around London. We’re experienced in finding children homes with gay and lesbian couples and single people. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff take an individual approach to supporting adopters and foster carers and matching them with the children who make their families compete. For a free info pack or an informal chat get in touch.
Tel: 0800 731 1845
Email: jamie@pactcharity.org
www.pactcharity.org/out
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In 2008 we embarked on our journey to have a child through surrogacy in India.  After an ordeal fraught with misrepresentation and broken commitments, our daughter Isabelle was born in November 2010.  We started our business with the goal of helping other, want to be parents, avoid the pitfalls, roadblocks and emotional rollercoaster we experienced.  We have taken the uncertainty out of the surrogacy process, and help others to finally achieve the wonderful gift of parenting.  We give you the security of contracts executed in UK and the USA, not India.  We are also currently working on third baby!
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Complete Fertility Centre Southampton offers personally tailored fertility treatments in a new, state-of-the-art, hospital based facility. We offer assisted conception technologies such as IVF, ICSI and donor IUI. In addition we manage a large donor bank. We pride ourselves in our caring staff who will guide you through your fertility journey.

www.completefertility.co.uk

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Fertility Bridges is a U.S. based Surrogacy and  Egg
Donation Agency with an empathetic staff dedicated to our client's needs. We have a focused business practice in helping LGBT clients in the U.K. on their fertility journeys.
We have 100 Surrogates and 350 college educated
Donors ready to help you today.

www.fertilitybridges.com

 
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