Anna Day
Nominee Profile
Location: Buckingham
Hi,
I am Anna Day. I run a company called Successful Coaching set up in 2023 which helps disabled charity leaders and entrepreneurs to increase their impact in social change, and improve equality and diversity. I have worked with Samaritans on development of suicide prevention materials in prisons for trans, neurodivergent and foreign national prisoners. I have also worked on researching as a volunteer around how crisis services for young autistic adults can be improved with the University of Plymouth. I have been working on setting up a new school and a neurodivergent autism and ADHD provision to help young people in employment through a social enterprise non profit. I work with Pluss C.I.C. designing services for people with disabilities and have designed new services which have secured over £150,000 so far this year to help disabled people into work. I have also donated my time to helping disabled entrepreneurs and self employed, and unemployed people to move back into work through coaching and mental health. I have worked championing children, families and mental health for 22 years, against a backdrop of increasing disabilities myself. I have Fibromyalgia, brain injury and autism and ADHD, and suffer from long term severe mental health issues, from being in care as a child. I have also led on the suicide and self harm lived experience strategy for Samaritans on how to involve more people with lived experience, researching with two amazing lived experience colleagues to design a strategy to involve more people in the charities decision making and operations that have lived experience. I have done all this whilst supporting my teenage son who has high complex needs autism and mental health. I have raised £24m for diversity, inclusion, mental health and poverty initiatives. I also coached practitioners towards a preventing school exclusions programme in Worcestershire. It would mean the world to me to win this award in recognition of the immense work I have done.
I am Anna Day. I run a company called Successful Coaching set up in 2023 which helps disabled charity leaders and entrepreneurs to increase their impact in social change, and improve equality and diversity. I have worked with Samaritans on development of suicide prevention materials in prisons for trans, neurodivergent and foreign national prisoners. I have also worked on researching as a volunteer around how crisis services for young autistic adults can be improved with the University of Plymouth. I have been working on setting up a new school and a neurodivergent autism and ADHD provision to help young people in employment through a social enterprise non profit. I work with Pluss C.I.C. designing services for people with disabilities and have designed new services which have secured over £150,000 so far this year to help disabled people into work. I have also donated my time to helping disabled entrepreneurs and self employed, and unemployed people to move back into work through coaching and mental health. I have worked championing children, families and mental health for 22 years, against a backdrop of increasing disabilities myself. I have Fibromyalgia, brain injury and autism and ADHD, and suffer from long term severe mental health issues, from being in care as a child. I have also led on the suicide and self harm lived experience strategy for Samaritans on how to involve more people with lived experience, researching with two amazing lived experience colleagues to design a strategy to involve more people in the charities decision making and operations that have lived experience. I have done all this whilst supporting my teenage son who has high complex needs autism and mental health. I have raised £24m for diversity, inclusion, mental health and poverty initiatives. I also coached practitioners towards a preventing school exclusions programme in Worcestershire. It would mean the world to me to win this award in recognition of the immense work I have done.