Events at WayMakers
We improve opportunities and outcomes for autistic and AuDHD people age 14 and up. We deliver support to them and those around them.
Person-centred. Strengths-based. Solution-focused.
Upcoming Events
Our Next PINN Forum –
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Save the date!
We are thrilled to announce the next Northern Devon Forum for Practitioners Meeting Neurodiversity Needs (PINN Forum). This essential event will bring together service providers and professionals dedicated to supporting neurodivergent individuals in our community.
Event Details:
- Date: Tuesday, 13 October
- Time: 10am – 1pm (with optional networking until 1:30 pm)
- Location: The Growforward Project, Chelfham Mill, Barnstaple, Devon, EX32 7LA
We will add a link to book your place nearer the time.
Event Highlights:
- Networking Opportunities: Connect with fellow practitioners and expand your professional network.
- Knowledge Exchange: Share insights and learn from the latest research and practices in neurodivergent support.
- Collaborative Solutions: Engage in discussions aimed at creating actionable solutions for the challenges faced by neurodivergent individuals.
Get involved:
If you or your organisation has any questions, or would like to participate, please email us at katie@waymakers.co.uk.
Join us in making a difference and advocating for a more inclusive and supportive community for neurodivergent individuals. We look forward to seeing you there!
Past Events
Becoming Visible group exhibition
2 – 23 May 2026
Getting to know ourselves is often a lifetime’s journey: this can feel all the truer – and harder – when we’re neurodivergent and belonging is hard to come by.
Becoming Visible captured the work of a group of neurodivergent young people aged 14 to 23 from across Northern Devon.
Between January and March 2026, they gathered fortnightly at Studio KIND to nurture or awaken their creativity and build new connections.
The exhibition brought together the work created during these sessions alongside a selection of work made by local artists with lived experience of neurodivergence in a celebration of how our inner and outer selves emerge through creative expression. You can view the virtual exhibition by clicking the button below.
Some successes from this project included:
- a 125% increase in feelings of positivity at the start of sessions over time.
- a 50% decrease in feelings of anxiety at the start of sessions over time.
- New friendships made, and an ongoing arrangement for weekly meet-ups at the gallery.
- An increase in overall wellbeing for 100% of participants.
- Greater access to arts spaces by the neurodivergent community (taken from exhibition visitor data).
Parent Support Circle
Starting March 2026
Are you a parent or carer to a neurodivergent young person aged 14 – 22 in North Devon?
Do you sometimes feel a little lost or alone in your journey?
You want and try to understand each other, to get things right for everyone’s sake, to find the words or the ways that create a peaceable, harmonious home.
If it feels harder than you’d like it to, and you might benefit from joining a small group of peers who also feel the same, why not join our next Parent Support Circle.
We currently have two spaces available.
Event Details:
- Sessions are held in Barnstaple on Monday evenings, 6.15 – 8.15pm, by our two experienced facilitators, each with lived experience..
- This is a programme of 11 sessions, beginning weekly, with longer spacing between sessions in the second stage.
- Starting in March 2026, dates TBC
Would you like to support us?
£6.50 buys refreshments for a coaching session, whilst also supporting a local café.
£12.50 pays for meeting room hire, when clients want to meet outside the home, but feel the library or a cafe is not accessible to them.
£82 funds a 1-to-1 person-centred, solution-focused strategy coaching session.
£225 covers the cost of responding to enquiries and requests for signposting or advice for a period of one month.
£920 funds a complete 10 week coaching programme for a client in need.
£5000 corporate sponsorship funds one year’s events for the North Devon PINN Forum: a space we facilitate for around 50 practitioners to meet, collaborate, and learn from each other.
We are forever grateful for individuals and organisations that support us.
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