To mark Big Adoption Day, Diagrama Foundation is highlighting the urgent need for more adoptive families, as thousands of children across the UK continue to wait for safe, loving and permanent homes.
Big Adoption Day is held to raise awareness and challenge common myths around adoption and encourage more people to explore whether they could offer a child a family. Diagrama Foundation, a voluntary adoption agency, is using the day to reassure prospective adopters that adoption is more inclusive than many people realise.
To support this, Diagrama Adoption is hosting a drop-in information session in Croydon on 21 January, giving local people the opportunity to meet the adoption team, ask questions, and learn more in a relaxed, no-obligation setting. In addition, the charity continues to run regular online information sessions, making it easier for people across London and beyond to access information about adoption.
Many children waiting for adoption have experienced early trauma and uncertainty and are simply waiting for someone to offer them stability, care and long-term commitment. Diagrama Foundation is keen to dispel misconceptions about who can adopt. There is a minimum age requirement, but no upper age limit. People can adopt whether they are single or married, whether they already have birth children or have never had children.
Diagrama Adoption is a voluntary adoption agency, meaning it is child-centred and not profit-driven. The organisation works closely with local authorities while providing personalised support to adopters, from initial enquiry through to adoption and beyond, offering post-adoption support to families.
Big Adoption Day is an opportunity to start conversations and encourage people who may have previously dismissed adoption to take a closer look.
To book into the coffee and cake event in Croydon visit – Big Adoption Day Coffee & Cake Meet with Diagrama (Drop-ins Very Welcome!) Tickets, Wed 21 Jan 2026 at 11:00 | Eventbrite
To book an online session on 14 January visit January – Intro to Adoption & Early Permanence with Diagrama Adoption Tickets, Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
About Diagrama Adoption
Diagrama Adoption is a voluntary independent, adoption agency, dedicated to finding loving families who can offer a permanent home for children across London, Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
The Diagrama Adoption agency is small enough to offer a personalised and friendly adoption experience while benefitting from the expertise and security that comes with being part of the larger Diagrama charitable foundation. www.diagramafoundation.org.uk
Diagrama Adoption welcomes all adoption enquiries regardless of age, faith, sexuality, ethnicity or whether you are single or a couple.
To find out more about adopting with Diagrama visit www.diagramaadoption.org.uk
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About Diagrama Foundation
Diagrama Foundation is a Kent based charity that supports vulnerable children, young people, and adults to live their best life.
Diagrama has a Supported Living Service across Bromley and Mid Sussex, three homes for adults with learning disabilities in Orpington, an eight-bed care home for adults with learning disabilities in West Sussex a fifty-bed care home for the elderly with nursing and dementia needs in Essex, and a fostering and adoption service in the southeast.
- The Supported Living Service, cares for 33 adults with learning disabilities, in seven schemes across Bromley and one scheme in Mid Sussex helping them to develop skills and confidence to live in their own house either on their own or with others.
- At Cabrini House in Orpington the charity promotes the development of core skills for 23 adults with learning disabilities so that they can lead independent lives integrated within their community.
- Duckyls Farm, a 100 acre care home in West Sussex for residents with learning disabilities, allows the charity to explore the physical, mental and social benefits that working with animals and in nature can offer to people with a learning disability.
- Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm is a day care provision for people with a learning disability, physical and sensory impairment, acquired brain injury and/or autism.
- The team at their nursing and dementia care home, Edensor Care Centre in Clacton on Sea, support vulnerable residents to live life to the full.
- Diagrama’s voluntary adoption agency and not-for-profit fostering service cares for children in London, Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
Many vulnerable children and adults don’t get the support they need to develop their true potential, but the Diagrama team know that when someone has time and belief invested in them, they come alive, because that investment has made them feel valued and worthy.
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