An appeal has been launched to help pay for more art workshops for autistic adults in Berkshire.
In the summer of 2023, we ran a successful series of workshops at Beech Lodge School, just outside Maidenhead, funded by a donation in memory of Nancy England, a former assistant tutor on our community education courses and a well-known school teacher in the town.
Her daughter Sophie, who visited a session in June, is now seeking further donations towards the costs of providing another series of workshops next year.
She said: “The workshops this year were a huge success, supporting over a dozen people to express their creativity through art, and the work produced was inspiring and showed such talent. I would like to run them again in my mother’s honour in 2024.”
She hopes to raise £2,500 and has set up a Go Fund Me page to collect donations – more than £400 has been pledged so far.
Click here to donate to the appeal fund.
- For more information about last summer’s art workshops click here and to see a gallery of photographs click here.
Pictured above are: Sophie England with Autism Berkshire’s CEO Jane Stanford-Beale, left, and autism development worker Helen Harris, second left. Photograph: Chris Forsey
