Not every family starts the same way, and we work with all of them: donor sperm or eggs used with IVF or IUI, shared motherhood (ROPA) where one partner provides the egg and the other carries the pregnancy, and surrogacy. What each route costs is set out in IVF with donor eggs or donor sperm.
On finding a donor from your heritage, we'll be straight with you. More than half of the donor sperm used by Black, Mixed and Other ethnicity patients is imported, because UK supply doesn't reflect who lives here. We'll show you the real picture and the international banks.
Our counselling extends to the people around you, not only you.
At Veya Fertility in London, IUI with donor sperm starts at £1,500 a cycle and donor egg IVF at £8,950. Shared motherhood (reciprocal IVF, ROPA) is a fixed £4,500, known-donor IVF is £4,500 plus £650 for donor screening, and our surrogacy clinical programme starts at £14,500.
Costs depend on the route: donor eggs or sperm, shared motherhood, or surrogacy. On your free consultation, we'll map the right path for you and give you a clear, itemised total. Nothing hidden, and nothing on your bill you didn't agree to.
No referral needed, and no obligation to book anything afterwards. If we do not think we are the right clinic for you, we will tell you and point you towards one that is.
Anyone donating eggs or sperm to you has to be screened before treatment can begin. This is an HFEA requirement, and it protects you, your donor, and any child born. It is charged separately from treatment, so you only pay for it once.
Your route to a family involves an egg donor and a surrogate. Clinically, we create embryos using one or both of your sperm and donor eggs, and then transfer an embryo to your surrogate.
We provide the clinical treatment. We do not match surrogates, so you will usually work with a not-for-profit surrogacy organisation to find yours, and we will happily work alongside them. Our surrogacy clinical programme starts at £14,500 and includes counselling for you and for your surrogate, her screening, treatment and transfer.
Legal parenthood in UK surrogacy works differently from donor conception: your surrogate is the legal mother at birth, and you apply for a parental order afterwards. This is where independent legal advice is not optional, and we will point you to specialists who do this properly.
Shared motherhood, sometimes called reciprocal IVF or ROPA, is where one partner provides the eggs and the other carries the pregnancy. Both of you are physically part of how your child comes into the world, which for a lot of couples is the whole point.
Clinically it is IVF with donor sperm, using your partner's eggs rather than a donor's. It is £4,500 as a fixed price with us, not including donor sperm.
You will both need to sign HFEA consent and parenthood forms before treatment, and we will make sure that is done properly and in the right order. Nobody here will ask which of you is the 'real' mother.
Yes. A known donor, often a friend or family member, is a recognised pathway and one we support. Your donor is screened first, which costs £650 and covers virology, blood group and genetic carrier screening, plus a semen analysis with DNA fragmentation testing where they are donating sperm.
The known-donor IVF pathway itself is £4,500, and screening is charged separately so you only pay for it once.
Two things we insist on. Your donor gets their own counselling, separately from yours, because their decision deserves that. And both of you get independent legal advice, because the boundaries you agree now are much easier to set before a child exists than after.
Honestly, this is harder in the UK than it should be. UK data shows that more than half of the donor sperm used by Black, Mixed and Other ethnicity patients has to be imported, because the domestic donor pool does not reflect who actually lives here.
What we do about it: we tell you the real picture for your background at the start rather than after you have committed, we work with international donor banks where the UK pool is thin, and we explain what the different banks mean for your child's future right to information. If matching is going to take longer, you will hear that from us early.
What we will not do is imply a choice is wider than it is.
In almost all cases, yes, and the donor is not. When you use a donor through a UK licensed clinic like ours, the donor has no legal parenthood and no financial responsibility for your child.
The detail depends on your situation. If you are married or in a civil partnership, your spouse or partner is normally the second legal parent automatically. If you are not, both of you must sign HFEA parenthood consent forms before treatment starts. Get that order wrong and legal parenthood can be genuinely difficult to fix afterwards, which is why we walk you through the forms rather than handing them over.
One warning worth giving plainly: donor arrangements made privately, outside a licensed clinic, do not carry these protections, and the donor may be a legal parent. For surrogacy and known-donor arrangements we will also point you to independent legal advice, because you need someone acting for you and not for us.
Yes, if you use a UK-registered donor. Under UK law, anyone conceived from a donation made after 1 April 2005 can apply to the HFEA at 18 for identifying information about their donor, including their name and last known address. From 16 they can ask for non-identifying information, such as physical description, ethnicity and any message the donor left.
Donor anonymity in the UK is time-limited, not permanent, and it is worth knowing that before you start. Rules differ if you use an overseas donor bank, and we will explain exactly what applies to the donor you are considering.
Most families find the harder question is not the law but when and how to tell a child. Our counselling covers that, and it is available years later, not only during treatment.
It depends on your situation: whether you need eggs, sperm, or both, and whether a partner would like to carry the pregnancy. On your free consultation we'll map the options and the legal side together, with no pressure.
We provide the clinical treatment involved in a surrogacy arrangement you've made. We don't arrange or match surrogates, but we support the medical side and point you to the right legal advice.
Our surrogacy clinical programme starts at £14,500 and includes treatment planning, IVF, counselling for you and for your surrogate, surrogate screening, embryo transfer and virology screening. Legal fees, agency fees and your surrogate's expenses sit outside that, and we'll say so plainly rather than let you find out later.
Absolutely. We support solo parents throughout, from donor-sperm options to the clinical and practical steps, without any assumptions about what your family should look like.
