Coffee with a Cause with SEDSConnective

In our February Coffee with a Cause Lisa Basford, founder of Good Endeavours, led members in working with Jane Green, MBE, founder of SEDSConnective, to help to grow their charity to bring holistic support to neurodivergent people with complex health needs.

SEDSConnective provides education, advocacy and peer-to-peer support for people who have neurodivergent conditions (such as autism, ADHD, dyspraxia and tourettes) and related physical health conditions such as symptomatic hypermobility.

In the session we worked with Jane on their plan for growing the charity to create a more resilient model that can connect with and support even more members.

Jane founded SEDSConnective after facing years of mistrust in her own conditions. She is disabled and neurodivergent, as well as a carer for her eldest child who is also neurodivergent. Due to the late diagnosis of her conditions, she faced challenges throughout her social life, professional life, and above all, in maintaining financial equity. Jane always felt that there must be others who had symptomatic hypermobility and were also neurodivergent. 

Today SEDSConnective is a charity with global reach and over 5,000 members. They have remained true to Jane's original aims and have become a collective of people learning from and supporting each other. They also collaborate with other charities and work to educate medical professionals about the prevalence of symptomatic hypermobility for people who are neurodivergent.

You can watch a short clip from the session below where Lisa shares why she introduced this cause to the community.

If you are interested in joining our working group supporting SEDSConnective please get in touch.