New Family Social

New Family Social is the only UK charity led by and for LGBT + adopters and foster carers, offering peer support services and working with adoption /foster care agencies to make them more accessible to LGBT + people.

We are a self-help membership organisation formed in 2007, out of a need for LGBT adopters and foster carers to support each other, and to give our children the confidence of knowing other families like theirs.

From January 2006 unmarried couples, including same-sex couples, have been able to adopt jointly in England and Wales. Soon after this change, a group of adopters and foster carers identified several areas of need, out of which NFS grew.

We have come a long way and NFS is now a registered charity working closely with many adoption and foster care agencies across the UK. Our income comes mostly from over 100 adoption and fostering agencies which provide support for their families though a subscription to NFS.