Welcome to The Monday Club
The Monday Club is a social group based in Leicester for adults aged 18 to 65 who have Asperger Syndrome. The Club is based at the Peepul Centre, Leicester and members meet on Monday evenings from 7pm-9pm. A second group now meets on Wednesday evenings.
Confident Choices Workshops For people with experience of mental health problems, physical disabilities and carers of adults with a care need.
In these half day workshops you will learn and practice decision making tools and skills that will help build your confidence. It is a safe place to think and talk about your own care needs or the needs of the person you care for. • Thur. 31st May at Loughborough • Wed 20th June at Coalville • Thur. 5th July at Loughborough. More details»
Travel Talks Leicester - Summer Term 2012
The longstanding and popular Travel Talks programme takes place on Friday mornings from mid September to May. It is open to anyone with an interest the world we live in who wants to learn more about it by sharing the experiences of another traveller – the speaker. The talks are relaxed and informal but we aim for a high professional standard.
Friday mornings, 10:15 to 12 noon, Wellington St. Leicester.
Also: There are day trips out on 25 May, 20 June, 6 July
More details» Website: www.traveltalksleicester.co.uk
Photography Competition. To celebrate their 50th birthday the NAS is inviting you to use your camera to show them what friendship means to you. You could win a fabulous Olympus Pen Mini camera, worth over £400, plus an exclusive masterclass with world famous photographer and friend of The NAS, John Swannell. The best photographs will go on show at a special exhibition in June to celebrate their birthday and to help raise awareness of autism. More details»
The London Organising Committee of the
Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG)
has chosen Leicester, Leicestershire and
Rutland to stage a full dress rehearsal to test
the operations around the Olympic TorchRelay. Read all about it»
One Day Conference:
COMMUNICATION AND ASPERGER SYNDROME:
ISSUES AND STRATEGIES
Friday 18th May 2012 at Loughborough Town Hall
Read more»
Aspiro is an East Midlands based social enterprise delivering 
employment support for
people with a lived experience of mental ill health or a learning disability. They offer
services to improve individuals’ skills, confidence, health and employability so they
can gain and sustain a working life. They believe everyone has the right to work.
Download and read the Aspiro newsletter»
Reprint (March 2011): Directory of Services
for
Adults
with
Autistic Spectrum
Disorders.
Produced by the Leicestershire Branch of the
National Autistic Society. Website: aspergerleics.org
Download the directory here» (pdf, 228kb)
Archives of earlier news:
Click Here»To contact us please call 07873 311610 or email us at
Themondayclub@hotmail.co.uk
or write to us at:
The Peepul Centre
PO Box 9288
Leicester, LE41 9FT
