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Just a reminder

Our Jumble Sale at Beccles extended to Friday 19th: books, bric-a-brac, electronics; come along & have a look! 1/1a Market Street, Beccles.

Fish & Chip Quiz Night at Stalham Town Hall

Capron & Helliwell are hosting a Fish & Chip Quiz Night in aid of Asperger East Anglia, Friday 15th April 2016, 7.30pm, Stalham Town Hall.

Teams are a maximum of 6 people and tickets cost £7.50 per person including fish/2 sausages and chips; tea and coffee are available.

Tickets available from Capron & Helliwell:
Wroxham 01603 783818
Stalham 01692 581231

Venue: Stalham Town Hall: High Street, Stalham, Norfolk, NR12 9AH
Please come along and raise funds for our cause.

Volunteers, laptops and PAT testing

CALLING WOULD-BE VOLUNTEERS!
Are you seeking voluntary work?
Can you spare a couple of hours (or more) a week?
We need volunteers in various roles at Beccles:

* Posting items on eBay
* Customer service in our charity shop
* Painting items of furniture
* Potential other roles

Please contact [email protected]

PAT TESTING SERVICE:
Do you have electrical items that require PAT testing?

Perhaps you are selling them on or need them tested for use in your business. If so, we can do that for you here at our Beccles electrical / computer workshop. Our rates are reasonable at £2 per item and parts (such as replacement fuses/plugs) are only charged at cost, plus we offer a bulk discount on more than 20 items.

Please contact [email protected] or call in the A Shop.

LAPTOP COMPUTERS WANTED!
We are urgently seeking donations of laptop computers for our shop stock. If you have laptop computers that you are thinking of upgrading and do not wish to keep the old ones, please consider donating them to us.

If they are not in 100% working order, that's fine as we can repair all but the most serious faults and can also break dead laptops for spare parts.

Please contact [email protected] or drop them off at the A Shop.

We can also repair computers, so if you have any that you would keep if they were repairable, please contact us with your requirements as we can usually fix them; we charge £25ph for repairs and parts are only charged at cost; please contact [email protected] or call in at the A Shop.

A Shop, 1/1a Market Street, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9AQ.
01502 715500.

We are also running low on (good quality) stock for our charity shop, the A Shop - please can you help? All proceeds go to supporting people affected by Asperger Syndrome.

Sponsored walk in Spain for AEA by David Hamblin

David Hamblin is going on another sponsored walk for AEA between Monday 4th April and Sunday 17th April 2016.

David will be walking in Asturias & Galicia Camino Frances and is seeking to raise funds for Asperger East Anglia. Any amount will be very much valued, as we continue to represent, advise and support those on the autistic spectrum, their families and carers.

Further details are here: Walking in Spain

Sponsored ultra-running by Jay Close

Jay Close is running Grand Union Canal Ultra 2016 and the Marathon des Sables 2017 to raise money for Asperger East Anglia. We are very grateful for his efforts, so please visit his page and support him, as he is supporting us: MYULTRARUNNING4CHARITY

Sponsored skydive by Lindsey Dobney

Lindsey Dobney is going on a sponsored skydive on Tuesday 26th July to raise funds for Asperger East Anglia. Any amount raised will be very much valued, as we continue to represent, advise and support those on the autistic spectrum, their families and carers: Birthday Skydive

Fish & Chip Quiz Night in Beccles

We are staging a Fish & Chip Quiz Night to raise funds for our Beccles Children & Family group on Thursday 21st July, at Beccles Public Hall, Smallgate, Beccles, NR34 9AD.

Doors open 7pm for 7.30 start and tickets are £7.50 per person.

The price includes fish & chips or sausages & chips and teams can be up to 8 people. A raffle & refreshments will be available. Booking essential!

To purchase tickets please contact Paula on 01502 715500, email [email protected], or call into The A Shop, 1A Market Street, Beccles, NR34 9AQ.

Update: You can also book tickets by phoning 07484 210453

Aspiegenius

Computer building service offered by people with Autism

* Free consultation
* Built by people with great attention to detail
* After sales support available
* Delivery available on request
* Twelve months guarantee on parts & labour
* Prices starting from £350
* Big savings for charities

01603 620500 [email protected] http://www.asperger.org.uk
Asperger East Anglia, Charing Cross Centre, 17-19 St. John Maddermarket, Norwich, NR2 1DN

Too Much Information, or, "What is it like to be Autistic?"

For friends, partners, parents, etc - we already know what it's like!

What is it like to be Autistic? Want to find out one of the ways Autism sets challenges to people with the condition?
National Autistic Society’s "Too Much Information" virtual reality tour will be at Norwich’s intu Chapelfield on 27th-28th August (Saturday & Sunday). Link: http://www.autism.org.uk/VR

"Following the phenomenal success of our TMI film, we've produced a 360 degree virtual reality version to help you to feel what it might be like to get too much ..."

"Those of you who have not seen the video it can be accessed via the same link. It’s a short video about a lad with autism going to a shopping Mall with his mum and the sensory overload he experiences. Very eye opening and just a snap idea of what it is like for many with autism."

(Via Autism Anglia)

Adult Autism Spectrum Cohort

This has probably been mentioned already, but following a heads-up given us by an NHS department in the region, we'd like to remind people about it.

It is a research project conducted by Newcastle University and is about engaging adults on the autism spectrum and their relatives in research. At least 1% of adults are on the autism spectrum.

If anyone with autism living in the Cambridge and Peterborough areas is interested in taking part, you can find out more at the NU website: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/adultautismspectrum/ or by watching this video:

Please contact Newcastle University directly if you wish to take part

Those of us on the spectrum ourselves know what it's like to be autistic, but do our NT friends or relatives have a hard time understanding? Do your support workers find it hard to understand what you are going through?

AEA has been informed of a blog written by an adult with AS which describes just that and feel it is important to help non-autistic people understand what many people with Autism experience on a daily basis. You might consider showing the link below to friends and family or sharing it on social media.

Please note that the opinions therein are the creator's own and do not necessarily represent those of AEA. There is also, in some places, strong language and discussion of difficult issues often disproportionately experienced by people with Autism.

http://www.assupportgrouponline.org/apps/blog

Xmas Fish & Chip Quiz Night!

AEA is holding another quiz night to raise funds for the Beccles Children & Family group on Thursday 8th December, at Beccles Public Hall, Smallgate, Beccles, NR34 9AD.

Doors open 7pm for 7.30 start and tickets are £7.50 per person.

The price includes chips & fish or 2 sausages and teams can be up to 8 people. A raffle & other refreshments will be available. Booking essential!

To purchase tickets please contact Paula on 07484 210453, email [email protected], or call into The A Shop, 1A Market Street, Beccles, NR34 9AQ.

Used stamps needed - can you help?

We are seeking used postage stamps, so if you are willing to cut used stamps from envelopes, we'd be very grateful to have them.

Ideally, leaving a border of around 6mm (1/4 inch) around them will help us, as we can then sell on to people such as stamp collectors.

All money raised goes to helping people affected by Asperger Syndrome.

You can drop them in at our Head Office in Norwich (Charing Cross Centre, 19 St John Maddermarket, NR2 1DN) or our charity shop at Beccles (1a Market Street, NR34 9AQ).