Leeds’ Free Advocacy and Information Service for Autistic Adults

Leeds Autism AIM is a free service for autistic adults in the Leeds area who receive little or no funded support. We are part of The Advonet Group, an independent advocacy charity in Leeds.

Leeds Autism AIM’s Services

Advocacy

We can support you to communicate your needs and help you to understand and stand up for your rights.

Information and Signposting

Whether it’s through our drop-ins, one-to-one or online, we provide information and signposting to you.

Resources

We produce free resources for you that can help with such things as accessing health services and expressing your feelings.

Post-Diagnostic

We are running a project to provide fortnightly post-diagnostic support sessions to autistic adults in Leeds.

Mentoring

We provide mentoring services to autistic adults in Leeds with little or no support who would benefit from some independent, autism-specific support.

One-to-One Peer Support

This is support from an autistic member of staff to help you understand your autism and create life strategies.

Autistic-led Groups

We run autistic-led peer groups online and in person. These are run every month either at our Hub, on Zoom or Discord.

Autism Hub

We We run regular booked appointment-only and drop-in sessions at The Community Wellbeing Hub in Leeds.

Leeds Autism AIM News

  • First Drop-In Autism Hub at new venue this month

    Published On: 21 May 2025

    Later this May, we will be holding our first Drop-In Autism Hub session at The Community Wellbeing Hub in Chapeltown, Leeds. The new venue is about a mile north of the old Hub venue at Lovell Park, has on-site parking and separate rooms for one-to-one appointments.

    The Drop-In takes place on Tuesday 27th May at the […]

  • A photo of a group of people at the AIMiversary celebration, stood with their arms aloft.

    Big crowd gathers to celebrate AIM’s 10th anniversary

    Published On: 24 April 2025

    Last week, we held a special event to mark Autism AIM’s 10th anniversary. We welcomed close to 100 people at the HEART Centre in Headingley for a day of nostalgia, engagement and looking forward, with memories to last a lifetime.

    A combination of clients, commissioners, volunteers, current and former AIM and Advonet Group staff, partners and […]

About Leeds Autism AIM

This is a short introduction video (Runtime: 5:34), explaining who we are, what we do and who we can support.

Leeds Autism AIM also offer:

Our Funders

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
The National Lottery Community Fund
Live Well Leeds

Leeds Autism AIM is funded by grants from the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (formerly Leeds NHS Clinical Commissioning Group), The National Lottery Community Fund and Live Well Leeds.