AceBabes

http://www.acebabes.force9.co.uk/

The network for families following successful Assisted Conception

ACeBabes aims to provide a network of regional family to family support groups across the country, providing information for families after successful fertility treatment. Support and counselling by health professionals are available to all couples facing infertility and during treatment. As a result they can begin to rely heavily on their support. Once a positive test is achieved, this contact diminishes and couples are left trying to cope with a range of emotions from joy at achieving a pregnancy, to fear and depression.

Anorchidism Support Group, 
PO Box3025, 
Romford, 
Essex RM3 8GX, 
email: asg.uk@virgin.net  
website: http://community.nj.com/cc/anorchidismsupportgroup  
The Anorchidism Support Group is based in England, and was formed in 1995 to serve and support any person, or, families of boy's, with congenital (or acquired) absence of the testes.

Childlessness Overcome Through Surrogacy (C.O.T.S.)

Lairg 
Sutherland 
IV27 4EF 
Tel: 01549 402401 
Fax: 01549 402401 
C.O.T.S. is a voluntary organisation assisting both childless couples and surrogates. E-mail

Email: mailto:cotsuk@enterprise.net

Chain Premature Menopause Self-Help Network 
Support group for girls and women who suffer early ovarian failure. They exchange information on IVF, HRT and on ways to have a family through egg donation, Surrogacy or adoption. They provide informal telephone counselling by members and quarterly newsletter. They can be contacted at:  
PO Box 392  
HIGH WYCOMBE  
BUCKS  
HP15 75H

DI Network

The DI Network Provides contact and support for those who have children, or plan families conceived using donated gametes through donor insemination (DI) and IVF with donor sperm or donated eggs.

Tel/Fax: 0208 245 4369 
http://www.issue.co.uk/dinet

Foresight

Association for the Promotion of Pre-Conceptual Care. They provide a preconception programme which has been successful with infertile couples.

They can be contacted at:

28 The Paddock  
Godalming  
Surrey  
GU7 1XD  
Tel: 01483 427839  
Fax: 01483 427668 
Friends of IVF  
Friends of IVF

The Friends of IVF exist to support the work of the IVF Unit, based at The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford,

The Committee is a group of volunteers (both male and female) made up of past and present patients and representatives from the Unit. Within this group there is a wealth of experience as different patients have experienced different types of treatment cycles and different outcomes, some successful and others not as fortunate. The Committee meet every four to six weeks, at the Unit, to discuss and plan all aspects of our Aims & Objectives to enable us to further the work undertaken at the Unit.

http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/ndog/ivf/friends.htm

Issue The National Fertility Association

UK's largest patient support group based in the West Midlands check them out on 01922 722888

 
'The Jersey ISSUE Support Group'. 
They hold meetings from 7.00 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month at the:  Little Grove Clinic, Rue du Haut, St Lawrence, Jersey JE3 1JZ.  
Email: adramand@itl.net

Their meetings are informal and basically take the form of discussions. They also swap any information we have found on the Internet/ in the media etc. Last year we had a number of guest speakers (the local IVF nurse co-ordinator, a psychologist, alternative/complimentary therapists, representative from the local adoption service).

More to Life Project

Our vision is that people who have a life without children will not feel isolated and alone Also that this initiative will help set up and foster local and regional self help groups. 
Through contacts with the media and health professionals we aim to give society a greater understanding of the issues surrounding childlessness

Kleinfelters Syndrome Klinefelter Syndrome  
Klinefelter Organisation , 
234 Turton Road 
Bolton 
Lancs 
BL2 3EE 
England 
email: ko.info@talk21.com  
website: http://www.klinefelter.org.uk/

Klinefelter syndrome is a disorder in which boys are born with an extra X chromosome.Most men with KS are sterile. 
This club is run predominantly by adults for adults and their partners, and parents of KS sufferers. 
Membership is open to 18 yr olds and over. You get a quarterly newsletter, free information sheets, access to a service which enables members to contact one another if they wish, a copy of their annual report and access to information services . 
Egg donation – For Donors

New and interesting web site from the "heart" This site has been set up for British women who are thinking about becoming egg donors themselves or who simply want to find out what's involved. 
website: egg-donor.zarcom.com

National Egg and Embryo Donation Society (NEEDS)

CONTACT: 
Regional IVF Unit 
St Mary's Hospital Whitworth Park Manchester M13 0JH  
Tel: 0161 276 6000 Fax: 0161 224 0957 
The society's prime function is to raise public awareness of the need for egg and embryo donation. To provide potential egg donors with the appropriate information about and to direct women who wish to donate eggs to centres nearest to their home. 
 
Muslimah are welcome to discuss fertility issues are here to help, guide, and support one another through this difficult time in our lives, and to reach that common goal of having a child.  
Web site: www.egroups.com/group/Muslimah-Fertility  
The PCOS Support Group  
The PCOS Support Group

There is also a very active PCOS mailing list: To subscribe mail to mailto:pco-request@lists.best.com and type "subscribe" (in lower case) Have you also subscribed to alt.support.pco? It's a wonderful UseNet group. If you have access to a news reader, or if your browser supports newsgroups, check it out! Many people subscribe to both the PCO Support List and the newsgroup alt.support.pco.

Web site: www.pcosupport.org

Process Educational Trust

140 Gray's Inn Road London C1X 8AX 
Tel: 020 7278 7870 
Fax: 020 7278 7862 
Director: Juliet Tizzard  
The Progress Educational Trust is a registered charity which provides educational material on the ethical, scientific and legal issues related to human fertility and embryology. Information is available to patients, medical professionals, the media, parliamentarians and interested members of the public.

Web site: http://www.process.org.uk/

VERITY  
30 Chalton House, 
Chalton Street, 
London, 
NW1 1HH

SUPPORT COUPLES HOME PAGE  
Membership is open to individuals, or couples who are grieving and feel that nobody understands their grief. They will attempt to put you in contact with others who are in a similar situation to yourselves, and / or provide information on other groups in your area who may be able to help you come to terms with your loss.

Web site: http://www.philipbailey.u-net.com/s2s

Society for the promotion of Nutritional Therapy  
PO Box 47 
Heathfield 
East Sussex, 
TN21 8ZX 
TEL 01825 872 921

THE NATIONAL ENDOMETRIOSIS SOCIETY 
Suite 50 
Westminster Palace Gardens 
1 - 7 Artillery Row 
London SW1P 1RL 
National Help line: 7pm - 10pm. 
Tel: 0171 222 2776 
Fax: 0171 222 2786 

Web site: http://www.endo.org.uk/

Miscarriage Association 
Provides support and information on the subject of pregnancy loss.  
c/o Clayton Hospital  
Northgate  
Wakefield  
W. Yorks  
WF1 3JS  
Tel: 01924 200799  
Fax: 01924 298834  
E-mail: susan.ellis@btnet.com

Web site: http://www.btinternet.com/~miscarriage.association/ma

London Infertility Network

c/o King's ACU Support Group, 6th Floor 
King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, 
London SE5 8RY 
Telephone: 0171-346-3609 (vox),0171-274-3242 (fax)