ADHD Alliance

Festive greetings friends. I have been rather quiet on here the last week or so as I have been unwell. I think it may well have been good old covid, so I have laid low and rested. I really wanted to put together some sort of guide to making Xmas ND friendly for the membership of the ADHD Alliance. However time and said illness have stopped me making a bespoke guide. However, I have found an article from my local council that gives some great advice. Although it is aimed at children, the guidance and tips it give work just as well for adults, and I am endeavouring to act on a few of them for myself (For example my family know I may need a time out at some point!) I have put this into a document along with some links to other useful guides on the same topic. I cant take any credit for the work, but hope people may still find this useful, so thought I would share it here.

Fresh from an invigorating if not whistle stop trip to Cumbria I am today at New Scotland Yard to support our disabled staff association celebrate international day of disabilities. We have stalls for each of the groups, including one with my marvellous ambassador Michelle for ADHD Alliance We also have wonderful guest speakers including Emily Jackson from Business Disability Forum The sort of awareness around reasonable adjustments that managers need to be hearing. #disability #inclusion #adhd #neurodiversity

We have just sent this out to our police members. Check your work email, if you can't open it due to firewall restrictions within your force, please forward the email to your own device and open the survey link that way.

We would like to see the Neurodiversity action plan updated 👇

NEW BLOG: How ADHD Alliance Co-Chair Daley Jones found wellbeing through exercise (and helped his ADHD and dyspraxic brain) https://lnkd.in/ehakZejr

Resharing this as we know this coaching would be very helpful to many our members 💙

The National Police Autism Association (NPAA) are back on LinkedIn! Give them a follow. They make up the triumvirate (love that work) of National Police neurodiverse support groups including Police National Dyslexia Association - PNDA and of course ADHD Alliance We are all chums who try to work together for the benefits of all neurodivergent people. #Autism #policing

Over the past few weeks and months, the ADHD Alliance volunteers have received a huge influx of enquiries, both personally and in our inboxes. This highlights not only the scale of what we face as a support organisation, but also the challenges the country faces as a whole in recognising the need for ADHD support. We want you to know that we try our utmost to respond to everyone and support as many people as we can. The demand has simply outstripped supply, so we have had to consider measures to remedy this. We acknowledge that the path we were on was not sustainable or healthy for those who run the ADHD Alliance. We are working on a membership site that will hold resources to enable a more widespread impact of our advice and content. Hopefully, we can build upon our already amazing community and connect them via the website so that they can support each other to. We’re also going to utilise our national support more and bring more national policing ambassadors on board to help with managing demand. As with all of our work, we do this in our own time and we're building it little by little. Thank you for your patience as we build the next chapter of the ADHD Alliance and continue our work. Thank you from: Daley Jones Carl Mumford Sveva Germani and the rest of the committee and ambassadors.

In less than two weeks, one of our founders Carl Mumford is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to fundraise for the ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity. We will using the money with the ADHD Foundation to raise awareness of ADHD and other neurodivergent conditions within the emergency services and wider criminal justice system. So far the Emergency Service Challenge team have raised a whopping £6042 for charities that benefit the emergency services. 💥 The Emergency Service Challenge was set up to fundraise and raise awareness of mental health in the emergency services. To date they have raised short of raising £20,000 for charity after climbing to Mount Everest Base Camp last year. 🏔 If you're able to spare some money to help Carl reach his target, we would be grateful for your support. We will keep you up to date with how the money is used with the ADHD Foundation. If you would like to donate, please use Carl's donation page; https://lnkd.in/eXaheBNw 🤗