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Dear readers, Here we are, second edition in already, glowing with the warm welcome and wonderful feedback we have received following the first edition in January. Dedicated as always to living [...]

Layla, Carlyn, Rose and Lucy… These are the names of Lorraine and Derek Cridge’s four daughters. The couple adopted all four young women, each at the age of five or six months old. The Cridges [...]

  Government announces roll-out of new Down syndrome test that will likely see rise in abortions. The number of babies with Down syndrome that are aborted is likely to increase following a [...]

A 5-year-old young carer from Andover wins recognition for staying home through the pandemic to help protect her big sister, 7-year-old Frankie, who has Down syndrome.  Donna, wife and mother to [...]

  The concept of the Tea Room was inspired by Joanne Smith’s daughter Chloe, 23y, who was born with Down syndrome. Mum and Daughter had a “eureka moment”   On many [...]

  “My husband Amar and I had long dreamed of being parents”.                                                                                        […]

Launching the first of its kind and much anticipated, an all- encompassing magazine about Down syndrome, nationwide!   Charity Making Chromosomes Count (MCC) is extremely proud to launch the [...]

    World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), 21st March, is an annual global awareness day, officially observed by the United Nations since 2012. On the 21st March 2021, people all over the [...]

Here’s a challenge for you: Do you think you could walk 300 miles, from Land’s End to Peckham? Quite a difficult feat. But some fifteen children with Down syndrome managed to cover that journey [...]

Emmerdale, a popular prime time television soap will be soon showing a storyline which promotes a couple having an abortion because their baby has Down Syndrome. Emmerdale has been criticised [...]