Autistic Girls Network

This donation will fund the running of a group for 2 months.

Our groups are neuro-affirmative spaces where, most importantly, autistic children and young people can be themselves and be accepted exactly as they are. Our group facilitators are neurodivergent themselves, with neurodivergent children, and they understand. Most of our facilitators have trained as teachers or Forest School practitioners. They are DBS checked with safeguarding training.

Our group sizes are capped so that the group does not become too big for the young people to be comfortable coming to it.

We do lots of craft, cooking and outdoor activities but we also make time for understanding more about being autistic, in a positive way. We spend a short time covering different life skills-related topics each session, for example we might talk about emotions, or friendship, or money management.

We genuinely get it – and so there is space to talk about passionate interests, and respect those interests. All of them.

We create an environment where co-production is the norm, and where self-advocacy is encouraged. We want to help these young people to be able to advocate for their needs.

Our groups are very popular! Some of our members have been coming since the very first group!