LOCAL CHARITY ASKS PEOPLE TO GET TOGETHER AND CELEBRATE AUTISM ACCEPTANCE

A charity specialising in autism support in the West Cheshire and Wirral area is encouraging individuals, communities and schools to celebrate autism and autistic people this April.

April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day, and Bromborough-based Autism Together is asking people to continue learning and thinking about autism right throughout the month, also known as Autism Acceptance Month.

As such, the charity is sharing free resources with schools, while encouraging people to hold their own events and fundraising challenges throughout April to help raise awareness and encourage acceptance for autistic people everywhere.

Richard Whitby, Autism Together’s CEO, said:

“This April we are asking the community to come together and celebrate Autism Acceptance Month in their schools, workplaces, and communities.

“Throughout the month we’ll be sharing free resources to help increase understanding of autism and the everyday needs of autistic people, in order to build a society and culture that is truly accepting of the condition.

“Understanding, support, and acceptance for autistic people is something we thoroughly believe in as a charity and service provider.”

The charity is also asking people to either plan their own Get Active For Autism challenge, or join one of the events it has set up for 2024.

So far, Autism Together has arranged an exciting Moonlight Trek on Wales’ highest mountain, along with the chance to take part in a charity sky dive!

Chloe Jones from Autism Together’s Fundraising team, explained:

“We’re encouraging people to arrange their own Get Active challenges, while getting sponsorship and helping raise money for our charity and the people we support.

“We also have our own events coming up later in the year, which we’d love people to sign up for and be part of. So, whether you want to parachute from 10,000 feet, or see the sunset on the top of Snowdon before making your descent by the light of a headtorch, we want to hear from you.

“But it doesn’t just have to be activity events – people love to hold fundraising bake sales during April to help increase awareness of autism and our charity. We’ve even created our own charity cake toppers which can be ordered online from our eBay shop and really help make bakes look fantastic, while helping a good cause.”

Autism Together is also offering schools the chance to be part of the month, through free teaching resources available to access via the charity’s website.

Chloe continued:

“These downloads are designed to help make learning about autism fun, engaging, and informative for both Primary and Secondary students.

“They even include a pre-recorded video presentation, to help teach young people more about autism awareness and acceptance.

“What’s more, we can offer 1-hour of free autism acceptance training for teachers based at Wirral schools. This is only available for training during the month of April, and is subject to availability.”

Head over to the charity’s website to view their Autism Acceptance Month page, where you can access all the relevant information and resources for April’s celebrations: 

www.autismtogether.co.uk/autism-acceptance-month

To support the work Autism Together does, people can make a donation via the charity’s website: 

www.autismtogether.co.uk/donate

About Autism Together:

Autism Together is a charity and specialist service provider, employing over 800 staff to support over 400 autistic adults and many more families, through services in Wirral and West Cheshire.

Founded in Wirral in 1968 by a group of concerned parents, our services now cover residential care, supported living, day services, respite, children and family services, along with specialist autism training.

• We understand that every autistic person is unique, so we work with each individual to help them overcome the difficulties autism presents them with, helping them to lead a happy and fulfilling life.
• The people we support can learn diverse skills in activities such as swimming, cycling, trampolining, woodworking, painting, ceramics and more.
• We have our own rock band, farm, café and shop.
• Over the past decade we’ve won a variety of awards for our range of services for autistic people.

 autismtogether.co.uk

Pictured -  Chloe Jones, Fundraising Officer at Autism Together, is encouraging people to get involved in Autism Acceptance Month this April.