Creating a community by and for Black women with ADHD.
Funding snapshot
Programme area: Disability justice
Amount: £15,000
Length of grant: 2023-2024
The challenge
There are an estimated 1.9 million adults in the UK living with ADHD – but just 120,000 are formally diagnosed. ADHD services are overwhelmed, and most boroughs have an average wait time of 18-24 months. Black women are especially under-diagnosed, and late diagnosis can increase the risk of other mental health issues.
The project
ADHD Babes is run by and for Black women and non-binary people with ADHD. It is made up of 180 members, and empowers members to embrace their neurodivergence as a community, build peer support networks and share lived experience. Our funding is to help the organisation to develop the infrastructure to be more effective and more sustainable. This includes:
- Creating a sustainable business model that is community led, including putting robust and service specific policies and procedures in place and supporting team members and volunteers.
- Building the capacity to carry out equality and anti-stigma campaigning, including a fully formed team focused on this with clear objectives.
- Developing an outreach programme to create a community-produced service delivery project, based on feedback and evidence-based research.
Impact
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180
members -
1,000
people with ADHD reached
