Join us at this FREE to attend online event as we mark 10 incredible years of our Adopteens service - a decade of connection, peer support and amplifying the voices of adopted young people.

This special online event will explore the importance of youth-led services in shaping meaningful change and why listening to young voices matters now more than ever.

We’ll be: Sharing key insights from our 10-year Adopteens Impact Report; Showcasing powerful moments and milestones; Premiering exclusive new footage from our recent anniversary celebration; Highlighting what’s important to our Adopteens members - and their hopes for the future.

Come and celebrate with us, reflect on our journey and most importantly... hear directly from the young people at the heart of it all!

Event start time 11.00am | Event end time 12.00pm

(Your Zoom link and joining instructions will be sent to you closer to the time)

Join us for this FREE to attend online discussion on family and identity, bringing together adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents.

Together, we’ll reflect on questions including:

1. How do adopted people reconcile their birth and adoptive lives/identities?
2. What is the experience like for those who are transracially adopted?
3. Can navigating this duality become a source of strength?
4. How do adoptive and birth parents make sense of their family?

Chaired by Mike Hancock - PAC-UK National Strategic Lead - this roundtable features voices with lived experience from different perspectives. Expect honest conversation with personal views, shared insights and space to think about the complexities of identity in adoption.

Event start time 1.00pm | Event end time 2.00pm

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This FREE to attend online session offers gentle, supportive insights into understanding your body’s signals - and how to work with them to foster safety, regulation, and wellbeing in daily life.

In this session, adoptee and counsellor Gilli Bruce explores how adoption and early trauma can impact the body - particularly how trauma memories may be stored physically and how the Limbic System and Autonomic Nervous System shape our emotional and physical responses.

We’ll look at:

1. How the body holds trauma
2. What happens when the nervous system becomes dysregulated
3. How to build self-awareness of the body’s responses
4. Practical ways to support the body in returning to a calmer, more balanced state

Event start time 1.00pm | Event end time 1.45pm

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We warmly invite adopted people (aged 18 and over) to join us for a FREE, in-person event at our fully accessible PAC-UK Leeds office.

Hosted by Tanya Killick and Gilli Bruce, the day will include a mix of workshops and small discussion groups on topics including; the impacts of adoption, adoption and the body, and reunion - refreshments and a shared lunch will also be provided.

This is a safe, supportive space where you can choose to listen, share, or simply connect with others who have lived experience of adoption. There is absolutely no pressure to speak or share. You are welcome to participate as much (or as little) as feels right for you.

Event start time 11.00am | Event end time 3.00pm

(Please arrive at least 15 minutes early for welcome and refreshments - further information about the day is listed when you click on the 'Register' button below)