This fledgling organisation, founded in 2010, offers support, guidance, mentoring and training on the topic of Highly Sensitive People (HSPs - people with sensory processing sensitivity). We provide meetups & events for HSPs in Hampshire, Sussex, Bristol & Devon, plus we help make links to counsellors, coaches and other care professionals who have an interest in this area. We also train professionals in the particular needs of HSPs, including teachers, employers, therapists.

Many HSPs are not thriving. Their trait, which focuses around a highly sensitive nervous system, tends to make the world feel overwhelming. The ability to notice subtleties, their sensory sensitivities, overwhelm in busy or loud environments and generally caring too much about the world often results in being told they are 'just too sensitive'. This trait, present in 15% of adults and children, often leads to a life of anxiety and stress due to misinterpretation of their normal responses.

The difference will be seen almost immediately. We will have some funds to help me travel to various counties throughout the UK and develop local Meetups where HSPs can meet each other and get information. Also I will be able to run training for professionals further afield and lobby for inclusion of HSP-related information on teacher and counsellor training courses. I will later be able to plan and fund a two-day conference on issues and research related to this genetic trait in the UK.

So far, I have spent £40,000 of my own earnings to sponsor and create the beginnings of appropriate therapy, training for therapists, meetup venues, training facilitators, training teachers, mentoring parents with anxious children and much more. I am now in the position of having created a fledgling National Centre for High Sensitivity but need to spend money on admin assistants, a daily manager, expenses for attending to train in schools, write and create leaflets, and much more.