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.

Health Access Project

The project will work with autistic patients to improve services and address health inequalities faced by local autistic people.

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.

Lovell Autism Hub

Twice a week, we run sessions for booked appointments and groups at the Lovell Park Hub in Leeds.

Leeds Autism AIM News

  • A calendar with the dates for Christmas and New Year on it. There is a pen on top of the calendar.

    Three-week Christmas and New Year planner for 2023-24

    Published On: 28 November 2023

    To help plan during a time of year when routine and certainty are hard to come by, the whole Autism AIM team have made a three-week planner! It covers the three weeks that include Christmas and New Year for 2023-24. The planner:

    • Lists when important dates are, including Christmas Day and New Year’s Day
    • Says […]
  • A picture of someone speaking in front of a crowd at the 2022 Leeds Autism Show

    AutistiCon 2024: Save the date

    Published On: 21 November 2023

    AutistiCon, an annual autism event for Leeds, is back for 2024! The date and venue have both been set for next year. It will be on Tuesday 11th June and will be at the Leeds Playhouse in Leeds City Centre.

    Once again, AutistiCon will have guest speakers and information stalls from a range of local […]

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.

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Turn to Us

The Advonet Group have a project called Turn to Us. It works with parents who need help to make their voice heard. They provide peer advocacy and self-advocacy.

To find out more, please click on the button below.

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.