2024 is a very special year for us; we are celebrating 30 years of providing person-centred supported living to autistic adults across the Thames Valley.
This year we hope to raise £30,000 which will fund an important new post that will enhance the lives of those we support.
Please support us with a donation here.
Money raised from this campaign will enable us to deliver our Lifelong Learning Programme, ensuring people we support receive the daily living and developmental skills, educational courses, and meaningful occupation they desire. We will work closely with the people we support, their families and staff to deliver this.
In 1994 Dame Stephanie Shirley CH founded the charity to support her autistic son Giles, removing him from a psychiatric hospital where he had lived for 11 years, and into a supported living home. Giles was supported by caring support workers who, for the first time in his life, enabled him to make his own choices about his life.
Now, Autism at Kingwood supports over 110 autistic adults in over 30 settings, supporting people to live successfully in their own homes, and in their community. The support we offer depends on the needs of the person supported; some people need 24-hour support, whilst others benefit from our ‘outreach’ service where we provide a little support to help people live independently.
Kingwood delivers staff training to a high standard and many of our colleagues choose to develop their career with us. A significant number of staff have worked at Kingwood for over 15 years, testament to the positive culture that Kingwood promotes.
Additionally, Kingwood employs clinical psychologists who deliver bespoke specialist autism training courses to staff, as well as consultations to people we support.
Autism at Kingwood has a strong reputation within the autism sector for, as Dame Stephanie says: ‘providing creative solutions for complex situations and importantly, for persevering when other services have failed’.
We provide supported living and outreach support, helping and enabling autistic people to live in their own homes and make their own choices about the lives they want to lead.
Our relationship with the families of those we support is incredibly important to us and we work in partnership with families wherever possible.
All Autism at Kingwood support staff receive our Specialist Autism Training, making us leading care providers in Autism support.
If you’d like to make a donation directly to us then you can do this in a number of ways.
You can fundraise for us, through sponsored events or in a number of other ways.
