Adopter Stories by Adoption Now30 Apr 2024

Extra time with Adoption Now! - Episode 2

Extra time is where each month we are going to bring you more about what’s going on within the agency by going behind the scenes on projects and campaigns that we are currently working on; giving you important dates for your diary,and we’ll also occasionally feature case studies of some of the children that we are currently finding families for, and much more.

In this episode we are taking a look at our brand new campaign with Sarah, a member of our welcome team and our marketing team; I’ll be chatting with Amanda about our recent Adoption Day and also Catrin, one of our social workers here at Adoption Now about the brand new, regional campaign Adoption North West.

And then we’ll finish up the episode with the start of our brand new, monthly feature – getting you ready to adopt. In this series of interviews with our Welcome Team Manager Dan; we will be running through each step of the process that you can expect to form your adoption story. Today we are going right back to the very beginning and talk about Initial enquiry Forms.

Our Online Information Events for May are as follows:

Wednesday 15th May at 12pm

Wednesday 29th May at 5pm

To book your place simply head over to www.adoptionnow.org.uk/events and click on the best date for you.

If you are thinking about adoption or would like to start your adoption story you can always visit our website, which is www.adoptionnow.org.uk or you can call our Information Line on 01204 336096 where a member of our team will be only too happy to answer any questions that you may have and help you to start your adoption story.

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