The BRRG includes donor-conceived adults, academics, social work professionals and lawyers. There is no formal membership structure. Founding members are:
Marilyn Crawshaw PhD
Now an Honorary Fellow at the University of York and chair of BASW PROGAR (www.basw.co.uk/progar/), Marilyn has a long-standing interest in the lifelong aspects of donor conception and surrogacy through her work as a social worker, social work academic, researcher, lay HFEA inspector and policy adviser. For ten years, Marilyn was national adviser to UK DonorLink, the government-funded DNA-based voluntary register (now the Donor Conceived Register). Marilyn is in regular contact with the Donor Conception Network, parents and donors as well as with donor-conceived adults.
Shirley Brailey
Shirley was told when she was 12, back in 1962, that she was donor conceived and from that time on she wanted to know the identity of her donor. She believes that every child has the right to know the truth of their conception. Before retiring Shirley was a Primary School teacher in North London.
Julia Feast OBE
Julia is an independent consultant, specialising in the life-long issues of being adopted, Care and Donor Conception. Formerly the Policy, Research and Development Consultant for CoramBAAF and BAAF and manager of the post-adoption and care counselling research project at The Children’s Society, she has worked as a local authority social worker and as a children’s guardian and reporting officer. Julia has published about the identity and information rights and needs of adopted people, adult care leavers and donor conceived people.
Becky Gardiner
Becky Gardiner is donor-conceived. She is a journalist and lecturer. Discovering the truth about her conception at the age of 37 was profoundly shocking, and she now advocates for complete openness on the part of parents, clinicians and the state.
David Gollancz
David found out that he was donor-conceived in 1964, when he was 12 years old. Since the mid-1990s, David has been an advocate and lobbyist for reform of the law and was one of those who pressed for the changes embodied in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (Disclosure of Donor Information) Regulations 2004. David is a barrister based in London.
Emma Cresswell
Emma is donor-conceived. Since discovering this in 2007 she has been keen to increase awareness of the complexities associated with donor conception. In 2013 Emma successfully applied to the Family Court for rectification of her birth certificate to remove the name of the man she had been led to believe was her father. Formerly the chair of the Donor Conceived Register’s Registrants’ Panel, she is an advocate for birth registration to be an accurate record. Emma works as a Paramedic.
Birth Registration Reform Group UK 