Disability Confident Leader Specialist Autism Services is the first organisation in Bradford to be awarded the Level 3 Disability Confident Leader status. This was achieved by evidencing that as an organisation we have processes in place to support disabled individuals in the entire employment process from application to full employment. We were invited to a
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January 26th was the 3rd annual brick show in Mytholmroyd. Lego enthusiasts from around the UK attended the event to show off their wonderful Lego creations. Our Social Enterprise Coordinator for Autism Bricks UK, Martin Burgess, visited the Calder Valley Brick Show to discover what takes place. The event was packed with displays, from built
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A generous donation We have received a generous donation of £101.64 from an Autism Awareness Fundraiser that took place at Platform: York St John Spark Community Theatre on the 7th of December. The night involved lots of different performance acts from a range of people. The kind person who organised the fundraiser was a student
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Photos taken by Mitch/AB.
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The Textiles Workshop have spent the last several months creating ‘The Shoe Project’. The Bradford members visited shoe shops to gain inspiration for their shoes, and then created six designs. Everyone brought shoes to upcycle at the workshop, and then chose a design to bring to life. We also created shoe-boxes to help showcase our
The Festival Last weekend saw the UK’s largest comic art convention take place in Harrogate (they’ve outgrown Leeds) and the Conference Centre served as home for over 470 stalls, fans and cos-players for the weekend. There was so much going on; Batman being locked out of his hotel rooms, our star sales person, The Walking
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Remembrance Day Members from our Bradford workshops have written some fantastic poems for remembrance day.
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A leeds workshop have been busy creating a fantastic ceramics display, the members used ceramic paints, permanent marker and ceramic pens to create designs on a medium they haven’t used previously.
The Discovery Centre The Leeds Textile workshop recently visited the Discovery Centre. The centre is a state-of-the-art museum storage facility with over 1 million fascinating objects. The museum has an extensive collection, from elephant skulls to a medieval log boat, and mummy bandages to meteorites. Staff at the Discovery Centre can provide groups a tour
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November 9th-10th Harrogate Conference Centre This year, it’s grown so big, it’s taking over the Harrogate Conference Centre. Specialist Autism Services have put together a guide, based upon our members’ experiences of having attended the event when it was in Leeds. If you are at the festival, pop along and say hello, our stall is
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