About us
Dyspraxic Me started in June 2013 and has been delivering workshops since February 2014.
Dyspraxic Me offers dyspraxic young people the chance to take part in a series of workshops that help them develop useful skills for adulthood, such as cooking, sports, and social skills. Participants help to inform the sessions by having opportunities to suggest what sessions they would like to attend and find beneficial.
Sessions have included cooking, cycling, social skills, employability skills and art; we usually organise a social picnic each year. Every year, we organise events for Dyspraxia Awareness Week to raise awareness of dyspraxia.
Registered Charity Number 1175961
Who we are
Jess
Founder
Jess voluntarily founded ‘Dyspraxic Me’ in 2013. Jess was awarded a place on the Shaw Trust ‘Power 100’ 2018 list of the most influential and inspirational disabled people in Britain, is the 64th Points of Light, and in 2022 received the University of Brighton Alumna Award for founding ‘Dyspraxic Me’. Jess is also an artist and works in museums.
Dan
Volunteer Management Trustee
Dan grew up in a family of volunteers who ran a football club in his local community; he has a passion for helping people and improving communities through the power of volunteering.
In his day job, Dan is a Volunteering Development Manager at Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice in North West London, leading the development of the charity’s volunteering. As a trustee, Dan is keen to grow the number of volunteers supporting Dyspraxic Me to help the charity grow and help more young people with dyspraxia.
Angela
Secretary Trustee
Angela is a Chartered Surveyor, lettings Director of central London agency Hurford Salvi Carr, and SEND Governor at Dallington School in Clerkenwell. One of her two children is dyspraxic, as part of their complex needs profile.
Rosemary
Marketing Trustee
Rosemary is a writer, editor, and speaker specialising in neurodiversity and disability. Her work has been featured in Reader’s Digest and Travel & Leisure, and she has worked with clients such as Yellow Pages, eBay, and Lexxic. Rosemary is the author of Stumbling Through Space and Time: Living Life with Dyspraxia, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Currently, she is working on her second novel, a Bloomsbury guide to navigating university as a dyspraxic student.