Message from London Autistic Rights Movement (LARM)
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The Autistic Rights Movement UK, alongside London Autistic Rights Movement, have been invited to take part in the Autism Show, which takes place at Canary Wharf on Fri 25th and Sat 26th June. We have been given two days worth of forums on our perspective about autism for which we will provide speakers. This promises to be a hugely informative event, with forums on employment, living well, communication, equality and how to redesign the man made environment, among many other things.
Unfortunately, there is an entry fee. However, volunteers get in free. And we need at least 25 volunteers to help man an official LARM/ ARM UK stand during the two days for which we are there. So I am making a call out for people to come forward to do a shift on the stall in return for free entry to this exciting event.
Each shift is three hours long, and your role will simply be to be present at the stall, give out the selection of leaflets, badges etc we will have on the stall and take donations. There will always be at least 2 people on the stall so don’t worry about being stuck there on your own! I am going to construct a rota and would like people to tell me what their preferred shift is. Essentially there are 6 shifts – Friday morning, afternoon and early evening, and Saturday morning, afternoon and early evening.
It shouldn’t be a stressful activity – it will simply be two or three volunteers sitting down behind the stall – and LARM will make sure you are fully supported. The only point of difficulty I should warn you about is that the stand will be in an indoor fair which could be quite hectic and noisy so those with strong sensitivity to noise should take note.
As I said, we need at least 25 volunteers so as well as volunteering yourself I’d like you to spread this message far and wide to all the lists you are a member of. To repeat, volunteering gets you free entry to the event.If you are interested in this opportunity please contact
larm2008@gmail.com or phone us on
07594 578152 .
Please respond to this as soon as possible!
