Autonomy’s Fifth Birthday

Hi everyone,

How do you get more publicity for your group? Have a birthday party and use your pitch your project funding to celebrate it!

Autonomy had its fifth birthday party last month and over 70 people came, including our mayor, some councillors and a lot of people connected with Asperger’s syndrome. We had over 30 members come too. It was a great evening. We a lovely buffet, had a display of art work and photos, some music and entertainment from our members and also a drumming workshop to finish.

As a result we have had a few enquiries for membership and got to talk on Radio Shropshire. We also have been interviewed for an article in the Shrewsbury Chronicle, which should help raise the profile of the group and also Asperger’s syndrome.

We are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and World Autism Awareness Day on April 2nd with a talk by our members about Evolution. We hope to gain some publicity about this too seeing as Shrewsbury was the birthplace of Charles Darwin!