Our offer to you involves understanding your requirements and affording you as a business, exclusive ways to better achieve your Social Value responsibilities, which are meaningful and sustained. 

Autism Acceptance Awards

What is the Autism Acceptance Award? This award is for organisations committed to making a real difference for autistic and neurodiverse people.

For any organisation embarking on this journey the outcome will not solely be an increased awareness and understanding of autism and/or neurodiversity but the further implementation of real-life, practical changes that make a difference for autistic and neurodiverse people.

About the award. The award is split into three distinct phases: BRONZE, SILVER and GOLD.

We would encourage you to work towards each of the three phases, but realise for some organisations this may not be possible.

Employment Futures

Employment Futures exists to help remove barriers to meaningful employment for autistic adults and neurodiverse people.

Support for employers. We offer a package of support for employers including specialised training and coaching. 

Our expert team are on hand to help you, as a current or prospective employer of neurodiverse adults, and those with disabilities to really understand and support your employees.

Employer Support can often be provided free of charge via a government-funded Access to Work grant.

As a Disability Confident Leader we can “help you recruit, retain and develop disabled people who will help your business to succeed”.

Volunteering & Team-building

At North East Autism Society we find the volunteering opportunity that is tailor made for your employees. 

This ranges from skills-based volunteering, to practical team building opportunities. We will source a bespoke tailored opportunity for your business, overseeing health and safety, insurance and all logistics to ensure a successful, meaningful experience for your employees:

•  Skills Based – enabling employees to pass on their professional skills to their community and help build capacity within the charity.
•  Interactive Events – giving back in a fun, engaging way including helping support mass participation events, through to collections.
•  Practical Team – allows employees to make a tangible difference to community spaces, such as gardening and site maintenance.

PR Opportunities

Not only providing excellent PR opportunities, partnerships provide much needed support and for the lifeline services we delivery to families throughout the North East.

Together we can achieve more; as you give back to your local community, we will actively promote public relations, visibility, and brand awareness for your business. Businesses can receive an attractive package of support by becoming an official partner:

• Certification
• Autism Acceptance kitemark
• Workforce training & consultancy
• Web, email and social media assets
• Promotion across our media channels
• Access to our Press Liaison/Marketing Team
• Custom PR literature