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Friday, 3rd September, 2010.
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The Toby Henderson Trust
About Us
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This charity was formally registered in May 1999 as a direct result of our own youngest son, Toby (pictured), being diagnosed with autism some 9 years ago now. Along with family and friends we were immediately struck by how little support there seemed to be "out there" for us, his grieving parents and for him, a frightened and bewildered little boy who could seemingly no longer make any sense of the world around him. A wasted year left us shattered and him even less in control.
We decided to take matters into our own hands - no one would, after all, be more motivated than ourselves to want to find help for him.
Our journey took us to London, to America and finally back to our native North East, where the result of our own personal journey of discovery is now a thriving "autism centre" on a wonderfully relaxing, semi-rural farm visitor centre.
Originally born out of an overwhelming desire to share and disseminate information to other families like ourselves, we still believe passionately in the essential power of knowledge. Having the knowledge and consequently the confidence required to make your own decisions about how best to support your own child is a wonderful and empowering tool and one which every family should be privileged to possess.
Our aims remain, as ever, firmly rooted in empowering parents, families and carers, but also to extend to the wider family and the wider "community" involved in supporting these wonderful children.
We offer this support through a hugely diverse, but very practical range of services.
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