Its World Autism Awareness Week- 30th March – 5th April 2020 To celebrate this Assert wants to increase awareness of the condition and of our work. To help us achieve this we made a short film in the Autumn of 2019 that gives an insight into autistic people’s lives and the support that Assert provides. We …
All Benefits face to face assessments, reviews and reassessments have been suspended.They have been suspended for a period of 3 months, from 24th March 2020 until 24th June 2020.The suspension covers all benefits and does not depend on you having been diagnosed with Covid-19 or having to self-isolate. It includes: Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Universal …
ASSERT Monday Mindfulness Assert will be providing a set of 4 weekly online meditation and welling sessions. These sessions are to start on Monday 6th and run on every Monday in April. The sessions will begin at 6:30pm and be 45-minute long. There will be more information to follow. Cat’s Activity Even though we can’t go on our planned tour of the Booth Museum Cat thought many of …
The Food Partnership have been compiling information on accessing food during the lockdown as well as establishing new systems for food distribution. They are trying to make the information and updates around this as clear and accessible as possible and so have put together this page which links to all the information.
Hi all, We hope this finds you keeping well and safe. These are incredibly difficult times for people and we want to reach out to offer as much support as possible. We are doing what we can to develop our remote package of support. So far this has included: Telephone or video calling one to …
Due to the current situation, the next Active Club activity will now be ONLINE YOGA The session will start at 3pm on Friday 27th March and the cost will be 5 euro. The class will be taught LIVE by Kathryn Chuck- our previous activities coordinator who is now a qualified yoga teacher and lives in the mountains in …
Dear all The Assert office is now closed until further notice. We will up-date any news with regard to re-opening as and when the situation with COVID -19 improves. In the interim the staff will be on a changeable rota to take general enquiries on their mobiles. This will change weekly and will be updated …
In light of the current situation, Assert have made the decision to postpone our AGM until further notice. I spoke with the Charity Commission for advice yesterday on this matter and this can be postponed until advice allows free movement and for small groups of people to come together once again. We hope you understand …
Dear all, We are getting in touch to up-date you with regard to plan for service delivery in light of the growing developments of the COVID 19 pandemic. Assert’s first priority is maintain the wellbeing of our service users, volunteers and staff. In the past week we have up-dated our risk assessment and flu epidemic/ …
From John- James (Assert’s social media volunteer) Hi everyoneWe recently asked for some feedback on social media and one of the things that was suggested was that we could share some tips and advice from our members and service users about living with Autism day-to-day. As you are probably already know Autism Awareness Week is coming …