ASNA UK

Book now to attend the annual holiday for families living with disabilities and special needs. Places are running out fast. www.asna.info/events and scroll to 25 April. See you there.

HELPLINE AWARENESS DAY What is Helplines Awareness Day? Helplines Awareness Day on Sunday 23 February 2025 recognises the life changing but often overlooked services that helplines provide and encourages people who are struggling to seek support. Whether it’s through phone, email, text or online, helplines offer a lifeline to those in need, providing support, guidance and a listening ear.  Helplines Awareness Day encourages anyone who is struggling to seek help. No matter what challenges you may be facing, there is a helpline ready to offer support.  Helplines Partnership’s Find a Helpline online directory connects you to trusted helplines, so you can access the right support when you need it most. Helplines Partnership, the membership body for helpline organisations, supports organisations that provide information, support or advice via phone, email, text or online.   How can you get involved? To get involved with Helplines Awareness Day, please like, share and comment on the Helplines Awareness Day campaign video from Helplines Partnership, the membership body for helpline charities. To view it, follow Helplines Partnership on social media. LinkedIn, Instagram and X.  Please share the video far and wide to help reach as many people as possible!  You can also get involved by doing any of the following – Share and interact with the social media posts from Helplines Partnership. Keep an eye on the #HelplinesAwarenessDay2025 hashtag too and interact with people who are sharing content about the power of helplines. Publicise Helplines Awareness Day on your social media ahead of the day. Signpost to the Find a Helpline online directory. Visit our website for more information. The hashtags for Helplines Awareness Day 2025 are:  #HelplinesAwarenessDay2025  #FindaHelpline

ASNA will host its annual fundraising concert on the 25th Jan 2025. Doors open at 6.30pm. Tickets can be found by following this link. www.asna.info/events Tickets £8.00 ASNA members, £10.00 non members. Free to all young people and children under 5 years old. Further details on the website.

UK Disability History Month (DHM) - 14 Nov- 20 Dec 2024 - is an annual event to raise awareness about disabled people’s struggle for equality and human rights. It is an opportunity to reflect on the progress made for disability rights and to act on what we can do to support disability equality in the present. For example, workplaces can host webinars on disability history and reflect on what they can do to improve their policies to promote disability inclusion'. (DHM page). The statistics are telling. 60%+ people with disability in employment Vs 82% non disabled. That is a stark difference. We have cone a long way from when people with disability were seen as 'useless eaters' 'morons' 'feeble' and housed in large centres or ...yes exterminated or just written out of society. What have been the successes? I’d love to hear your stories of sucess challenges and concerns. #DHM #belonging #disabilitydiversity #belongingvsabelism

It's World Mental Health Day. Do you know someone who might be hurting? Join us today at 6pm for a seminar entitled 'Help when you are hurting' with Karen Holford family therapist. #worldmentalhealthday #nomindleftbehind #achatadaykeepsthedoctoraway

Join us on the 19th October for the annual Carers Connection day. Connecting Carers, Changing lives. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e7PcXkXy

Its a pleasure to welcome back ASNA UK to #ParallelWindsor🦌🌳 ASNA is on a mission to create a world without barriers to belonging. ASNA believes in the power of community where everyone is valued, appreciated and involved. To that end ASNA creates opportunities for mutual peer support and learning. They bring about belonging for people living with disability and additional needs and their families through the annual residential family respite weekend breaks for carers and their families, 121 online support, monthly online drop-in support groups. ASNA also provides disability awareness training & education for faith based leaders and their congregations through the Centre for Disability Studies both live and in person. ASNA is back with their Gospel Train Music Making Workshop for the whole family at Parallel Windsor again this year! 💙 Get your tickets at www.parallellifestyle.com before it’s too late! #NoLimitsLiving

Join ASNA at Parallel Windsor. A full day out for all the family. #ParallelWindsor   #NoLimitsLiving #DisabilityInclusion #BreakingLimitsWithSure

We'll be at parallel Windsor 7th July. Join us and take part in an experience of a a life time. Support ASNA www.asna.info/events

It was a brilliant weekend. The 20th respite and training weekend held this year at the @hayswoodretreat, near Kings Lynne, developed to create spaces where everyone has a sense of belonging. The intergenerational activities proved powerful this year with everyone joining in through the medium of friendship, music, love and understand. I love the Ubuntu saying ‘I am because we are’. ASNA UK aims to create spaces where I becomes we. Thanks Dr. Inez Brown (Hon. Causa) making it to the weekend and sharing your expertise with our families #belonging #love #families #neurodiversity #thepowerofmusic #thegospeltrain