What have I got myself into?!

Last month, my friends at AP Cymru asked me if I’d consider taking part in their challenge for Autism Acceptance Month by helping to complete a collective 700,000 steps for the estimated 700,000 autistic people in the UK. I turned them down.

“If I’m going to do it, I’ll do a full 700,000 myself”, I said. *GULPS* 

So where does the “Million” come into it then? Great question...

Well, I woke up one morning and had a silly idea...’if I can do 700,000, I may as well round it up to a million...’.

So, here we are... my little size eights are doing 1,000,000 steps in April. (That’s about 530 miles in total, which is 33,000 steps every day for 30 days). *DOUBLE GULP*

 So who are AP Cymru? 

They’re a Welsh charity providing direct, bespoke support to autistic individuals and their families during all stages of their journey. They provide exclusive inclusive activities for the whole family, training for schools and businesses, as well as clinics, workshops and a Face2Face support service.

£10 pays for a child to attend a fun activity with their family, supported by trained members of staff that they would not be able to access outside of our understanding and encouraging environment.

£30 pays for two families to receive bespoke one-to-one outreach with a senior member of staff.

£100 pays for a workshop for up to ten families. Our workshops include guest speakers who live with autism, occupational therapy clinics, understanding and managing behaviour which challenges, special educational needs law, and many more.

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