We have been fundraising and raising Autism Awareness and Acceptance for the past 15 years to help change attitudes and to transform lives for autistic people.

Inspired by Brendan now 18years, our autism family will once again embark on a 60km run in 6 days during World Autism Awareness Week in April 2023 to raise autism acceptance & awareness and raise funds to support National Autistic Society as long term members of the society. We even have our beloved dog M, trained as B's pet therapy dog joining in  some of the run! Last year, we have raised over £3000.00 and we have been fundraising each year raising over £50,000 for autism!

Brendan was diagnosed with high level support/severe autism at age 2 and was non-verbal until he was 9 years old. Today, he still struggles with speech, verbal dyspraxia, learning disabilities, ADHD, severe anxiety, self harm and aspects of daily living. He  attends an autism special needs Arden College in Southport

His brother Darren was born with congenital deafness and has been featured in the BBC for scoring the highest MENSA score.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-merseyside-47834194

His sister Corinne Toh has been featured in an episode of Blue Peter on TV for talking about autism and her original poem as an autism-sibling

https://www.merchanttaylors.com/junior-girls-news/corinne-awarded-5th-blue-peter-badge/

Muffin our pet therapy dog has been been in the papers and regularly visits the hospital and hospices

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3076283182396977&id=716348768390442

Ours is a journey where we will continue to support Brendan and raise awareness and acceptance for better #autisminclusion. Please support and donate any amount if you are able to.

'A Journey With Brendan' written by mom, Professor May Ng OBE, a multi award winning paediatrician documents 10 years of a life journey as Brendan's mother, through the wilderness of diagnosis, interventions, advice and the continuing battle for support. It has lots of practical advice and resources for families living with autism and you can read more about it here:

http://www.paedsdoc.co.uk/page7.html

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Journey-Brendan-autism-mother-paediatrician/dp/170691587X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1587454706&sr=8-1

Over 500 books have been donated to charities and schools in UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Phillipines and South-east Asia . In 2022, Professor May Ng was awarded an OBE for Services to people with diabetes and people with autism and disabilities

http://www.paedsdoc.co.uk

Twitter: @JourneyWBrendan  @mayng888

NB: On the 12th of May, we are also holding an Autism Awareness Acceptance Charity Ball in Southport- for tickets -pls do get in touch  at brendanjx_toh@yahoo.com if you are interested in supporting or donating raffle prizes