The first moment we saw him, our hearts melted. Those big brown eyes and wide smile. We knew we were making the right decision trying the early permanence route to adoption.”
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We know that the Church is uniquely placed to offer its help to children who need adoptive families – both in terms of finding families to adopt and providing the warm, loving community of support to wrap around those who do.
We are proud of our Christian roots and our work within the community. Whilst originating from a Church of England background, we now operate independently of the church; however, it’s ethos and value base continues to inspire our work and we retain strong links with Dioceses across the country. We value our relationships with the many churches we work with to raise awareness of adoption.
Our vision is a world where all children grow up with the security and benefit of a safe and loving family home enabling them to reach their full potential. Children are at the heart of everything we do and we seek to have a transformative impact on young lives; building trusting relationships and providing responsive, high-quality services underpinned by therapeutic support as standard. We will be:
Honest – Honest and open in all our communications
Empathetic – Empathetic to your individual needs and experiences
Ambitious – Ambitious for children’s futures, aim to provide the best service
Respectful – Respectful of your views and experiences and celebrating diversity
Together – Together we are a thriving and growing family
We encourage enquiries from people of all faiths. We have promoted recent Adoption Fridays run by charity My Adoption Family and supported by the Muslim Council of Britain. The day raises awareness about adoption within the Muslim community with a particular focus on recruiting in more Black, Asian and other ethnic group adopters for children waiting. On the day, during the Jummah Khutbah, mosques across the country talk about the important role adoptive parents play.
Find out more here: https://myadoptionfamily.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Adoption-and-Muslims-in-England_Community-Toolkit.pdf
The first moment we saw him, our hearts melted. Those big brown eyes and wide smile. We knew we were making the right decision trying the early permanence route to adoption.”
Sumiya and Shahid married in 2001 and had already talked about having a big family. But, after two rounds of IVF it wasn’t to be.
Sumiya said: “God didn’t give us the blessing of having our own children, so we are looking at others to give us that.”
As a family we have always been members of a local church and through the church we have been massively supported. Adoption Matters works in partnership with Home for Good, a Christian charity, and through them and the wider church we have been able to help and support many families considering adoption and those that are sometimes struggling with the reality of parenting traumatised children.