Our team

Georgia Holden-Burnett
Deputy Manager

Georgia is Deputy Manager at Autism AIM, currently managing our Volunteering service, where they support the development and delivery of autistic community-based services that improve accessibility, wellbeing, and equity for autistic people.

Their role includes management, partnership working, staff support, and delivering projects that strengthen inclusive and sensory-informed practice across services, such as  inclusive training to perinatal services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Their work focuses on upholding autistic voice and addressing intersectional barriers faced by autistic people through access audits, professional training, safeguarding work, one-to-one and group peer support, focus groups and advocacy.

Danielle Furness
Volunteer Coordinator

Danielle is the Volunteer Coordinator for the Autism AIM team, acting as the primary contact for our volunteers. Her role involves recruitment, induction, training and on-going support for all our volunteers.

Danielle joined the AIM team in 2024, initially as the Training and Audits coordinator for our Mental Health projects. She now enjoys applying her skills to her new position and meeting the variety of different people wishing to volunteer with our charity.

Sophia Larsen
Coordinator

Sophia works with Autism AIM clients to understand what matters to them and the support they want. She meets with new clients for their initial navigation appointment, helping them to their identify goals and explore their options.

She assists in answering email enquiries, make referrals to our support service and our peer mentors, and book appointments.

Sophia also works with partner organisations across the third and public sectors to make sure support is joined up and accessible. Alongside this, she keeps records, gathers feedback and data to show the impact of the service, and makes sure everything she does promotes accessibility, equality, and inclusion.

Lex Ragaliauskas
Peer Development Worker

Lex works as part of our post-diagnostic support service, providing one-to-one support to newly diagnosed autistic adults.

Her role also involves visiting mental health wards, offering peer support and informal advocacy to neurodivergent patients.

As well as peer support, Lex works as our referrals assistant and supports with developing training and resources.

You will find her in the kitchen preparing the food at AIM drop-ins twice a month.

Before joining us, Lex most recently worked as a support worker and was a stay at home parent.

Lawrence Cwerner
Peer Development Worker

As Peer Development Worker for Leeds Autism AIM, Lawrence works with service users one-to-one in our peer support and post diagnostic support areas.

He also co-facilitates the in-person Mental Health Peer Support Group, as well as regularly helping out at our twice-monthly drop-in. Finally, he’s the Live Well Leeds Link Worker, meaning he works with them to deliver training to their partners across the city.

Nelly Doherty
Peer Development Worker

Nelly facilitates multiple support groups and works one-to-one with clients in Bradford and Craven on health access and post-diagnostic peer support. She also helps co-produce and provide training about autism.

Before joining this team, Nelly co-created autism-specific resources and worked on Leeds Autism AIM’s Health Access Project.

Dr Gill Loomes-Quinn
Hub Support Worker

Gill mostly provides one-to-one peer-support to adults who have recently been diagnosed as autistic in Bradford and Craven. She also runs the monthly Leeds Women-Aligned Group – a peer support group that meets monthly on Zoom.

Additionally, she designs resources for training on a range of topics to do with autism and provides input and feedback on the development of the whole Autism AIM service.