Hi.. It's been a while 😅

Where do I start?!

Well, we became a Community Interest Company (CIC)!!

What is that I hear you cry? Well essentially it's halfway between a Ltd company and a charity.

We don't have time for charity admin (I mean, we barely have time for CIC admin!) but we neeeeeeeded to do something for the local community, so here we are.

Since creating Chiltern ADHD Clinic, we have always been in demand. I want to help people, I don't want to be a millionaire. (Well, sometimes I think that might be nice!) I don't think it's right that people have to pay for therapy, counselling, ADHD assessments etc when this should be provided on the NHS. I spoke to a local Council about it and they said they could help me with funding etc, but only if we became a CIC. Well, ADHD happened, and I was a CIC later that day 😅

Being a CIC means we can apply for funding, like applying to The National Lottery, or Arts Council etc. If we have the funding, we can provide our local communities (and online, who knows) with free or low cost support - super exciting stuff!

So, my vision......

I want a whole TIMETABLE of different support for ND people 🩷🩷🩷🩷

I want skills groups, support groups (especially for underserved groups), a ND hub where you can come and body double, I want the people who need the support and can't afford to pay to get free or subsidised tickets.

I'd love to somehow get some grant money to offer free or subsidised therapy for people who need it most...but I need to look into those logistics!

I want people to tell me what would help them, and we see about building that. The community just KNOWS! And we all have amazing ideas. No point in me deciding what y'all need.

I want to continue with all the cool sh*t we already do - like our £10 small group personal training sessions, to increase your confidence in gym spaces and help you to regulate your nervous system / energy levels.

I want to continue with our body dubs sessions in MK and now in Aylesbury and online, so people can get that dedicated time (using pomodoros) to get work / life admin / stuff done.

And I want to give people, especially young people, help in getting where they want to be. Life is HARD right now. Jobs are hard to come by. Bills are ridiculous. It's competitive out there. We have taken on some volunteers (and apparently I'm the boss but I think it's my work wife / Virtual Assistant Laura!) and I want to help them to get valuable experience within the clinic, spread the good word, give them some banging references, and get them into whatever cool job they want to go off and do!

We made this Community Interest Company because we care about the ✨community✨ - ugh I sound like a politician.

Be the change you want to be in the world and all that jazz, right?

Anyway, sign up to our mailing list plssss - we will have loads of events coming up and I wouldn't want you to miss out on ANY of them!

Yours Chaotically,

Jennie 💃🏻