To celebrate our 10th Year we are launching our very first E-Newsletter which will be sent via email. To subscribe to this free service just email gatesheadadhdnewsletter@yahoo.co.uk and insert - Subscribe - with details of whether you are a parent/carer/adult or professional. Once your email has been verified you will be added to the mailing list.

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EXCITING NEWS: Please go to our events/meetings page to see news about our new 'Drop In' centre at Connexions.

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TYNE AND WEAR Support Groups.

Please note that there are support groups in the following areas:

South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Newcastle East and Sunderland. If you would like details of any of these groups please send a request through our contact page. Thank you.

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Could you help us to raise much needed funds by donatihg your used ink cartridges and mobile phones.

See our FUNDRAISING PAGE for futher details.

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Welcome to Gateshead ADHD Support, we are a small registered charity. We support families where there is a child/ young person / adult with ADHD.

Our aim is to help to empower parents/Carers and encourage them to feel confident / competent in supporting their child.

We have telephone helplines connected to parents who have a child with ADHD to help and support you.

We have monthly group support meetings (see our events page) and support is given for: Everyday problems,

School / home behaviour management

Educational strategies such as statementing. If you live in Gateshead and would like an independent parental supporter whilst going through statutory assessment, then contact us.

Benefits claims (linked to your child's disability)

And much more.

We have a small resource library (currently only available for Gateshead members)

We work very closely with the voluntary and statutory agencies in Gateshead to ensure you get the services you are entitled to and what you need to meet your needs.

We can also tell you where to go in Gateshead for various services from the statutory and voluntary sector. We regularly attend various forums/meetings to raise awareness of ADHD such as; The Disabled Children's Forum / The parents of Disabled Children Subgroup of the Carers Strategy Group. So if you would like to become more involved but need help to make that first step, then give us a call.

We are also affiliated to ADDISS. Affiliation to ADDISS gives us an opportunity for our voice to be heard on a national stage. To share insights and good practice with other groups. To access ADDISS information, resources and attend their meetings. To tap into ADDISS expertise when devloping our own goals, standards and support. To secure recognition for our own good practice and we soon hope to join the ADDISS Quality Improvement Programme. Also affiliation is a chance for all groups including new and emerging groups to feel less isolated and better supported.

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IF YOU ARE GOING TO CONTACT US....IMPORTANT INFORMATION

We have recently received a few enquiries through the contact page on our website, where the person sending the query has not indicated a telephone number or an email address for us to answer the query. When this happens it means we cannot contact you and it looks like we are just ignoring you. Therefore can you please remember to at least give a telephone number, preferably an email address also. We hate to think that you feel we are letting you down, when in fact we don't have any contact details to get in touch with you.

We recently received an important query from a 'Dr' without any contact details... won't mention the doctors name but could he/she please contact us again giving us contact details to enable us to answer your query about Gateshead's ADHD Clinic run by CAMHS.

THANK YOU.

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NEW EXCITING ADVISORY BOARD

Gateshead ADHD Support is proud to announce that we now have a professional advisory board. For further details please see our Staff and Volunteer page.

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MEMBERSHIP IS free, so come on contact us - what do you have to loose.

REGISTERED CHARITY NO 1105581