Lots to get through, so buckle up 😉
What a sprinting start we have had to our first week back. 🏃♀️
We began our week by producing another FREE school staff resource to share with ALL educating staff. One of our key drivers is that we don’t want the lack of school funding to be a reason for school staff to not fully understand the needs of their SEN pupils.
There is a wealth of FREE information out there (if you have the time and energy to seek it) but we know that school staff are already so busy, so we are here to help.
There is no payment needed to use our resources and no strings attached. All we ask is that if you have found our resources to be helpful, that you give us a shout out online. This way, we keep our Neuro-affirming, advocacy message going….that’s our ONLY aim!
Please see here a link to our school staff training, the EBSA training itself and our YouTube channel as a whole- it is new, small but MIGHTY!
https://www.youtube.com/@awesomearchiesensupport
If you have any questions or would like more details, please do drop me an email on awesomearchieontour@gmail.com
Giant Rainbow Chair at the NEC
Massive thanks to Dave and Martyn from Reformed plastics for all you do to help Awesome Archie. The UK’s first giant rainbow chair, created in Archie’s honor, has been having a jolly old time up in Birmingham.
The fact the there are thousands of people who pose on the chair for pictures and us knowing that Archie’s face is in each and every one of them, means a lot. We know that there have been many conversations had, after seeing this awesome piece of kit and so we are forever grateful to you.
Our youngest team member Daisy, leads her FIRST EVER Awesome Archie assembly- in conjunction with The BEACH appeal.
The UHD charity are calling everybody across Dorset and the surrounding areas to help them fund a variety of additional items that will ensure the new BEACH building at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital has everything it needs to take their healthcare into the future – above and beyond what the NHS will fund.
Over £500million has already been invested to reconfigure the services at University Hospitals Dorset to improve the way care is provided for the hundreds of thousands of patients that depend on their hospitals each year.
The new six-storey building is the size of 115 tennis courts and is known as the ‘BEACH’ for Birth, Emergency, Critical Care and Children’s Health Department. This building will provide new purpose-built maternity and children’s units, an improved major emergency department and one of the biggest critical care units in the country.
So, imagine our excitement when the UHD charity asked if we at Awesome Archie non profit would like to be official fundraisers! We of course said YES!!! What a privilege to be able to support such a worthy cause.
To put our support plan into action, we kicked off by adding lots of little local fundraising events into our diary ( details will follow) and added the BEACH appeal information to our in school assemblies. This week we made an assembly it even more exciting!
Daisy (Archie’s baby sister) has always been one of his biggest cheerleaders. Superhero siblings like her, have to compromise so much to ensure the correct care of their loved one. She has FOREVER been a support for Archie and wants to continue as she grows older to help others like him.
Daisy decided that she wanted to organise an after school bake sale to not only raise money for the BEACH appeal, but to spread awareness of neurodivergency. She launched this by hosting an assembly that she incredibly presented ON HER OWN!!! We are obviously enormously proud. See her in action here ⏬
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2159933321067457?locale=en_GB
Now, the Bake Sale itself is only open to school pupils and their families however, if you would like to contribute to the fund then you can scan the QR code below. No amount is too small, it all makes a HUGE difference!
Just mention in the comments that you have donated because of Daisy’s work with Awesome Archie 🙂 THANKYOU SO MUCH!!!
