Service categories: Counselling and therapies, Information, advice and advocacy, Specialist equipment and adaptations

Service URL: https://www.myfoothold.org/

Secondary URL: https://www.myfoothold.org/differently-wired-hub-home/get-support/

Autism friendly award URL: https://www.myfoothold.org/contact-us/

Foothold is a charity supporting engineers and their families. Free and confidential services include mental health and well-being support with a focus on neurodiversity, as well as means-tested funding for disability assessments and equipment and carers support.

Our Engineering Neurodiverse Futures programme supports engineering apprentices and students on their first course with fast track access to assessments, counselling and equipment to support their studies.

Aimed at: Adult , Anyone with an Association to Autism, Parent or carer of under 18, Parent/carer of a child, Parent/carer of a young person, Parent/carer of an adult, Parents or carers, families, adults, Partner, Students

Referral Sources: Yourself

Covers: Cambridgeshire, East Midlands, East of England, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber, Guernsey Health Authority, Isle of Man, Jersey Health Authority, Sark Health Authority, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Ards and North Down, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Belfast, Causeway Coast and Glens, Derry City and Strabane, Fermanagh and Omagh, Lisburn and Castlereagh, Mid and East Antrim, Mid Ulster, Newry, Mourne and Down, South Belfast area, Ayrshire and Arran, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Forth Valley, Grampian, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Highland, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Orkney, Shetland, Tayside, Western Isles, Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, City of Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee City, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow City, Highland, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Moray, Na h-Eileanan Siar, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney Islands, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, Shetland Islands, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian, Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham

Specialisms: Generic