22/12/2025
🎄💙 Community gratitude post (from our Director, Carol) 💙🎄
As I look back on 2025, I’m feeling incredibly grateful — and honestly, a little emotional.
To our community: thank you. Thank you for trusting us, backing us, showing up, asking questions, learning alongside us, and believing that inclusion isn’t a “nice extra” — it’s essential. Your support is the reason these spaces, conversations, and moments exist.
To our small but mighty team — this year has reminded me just how special you are. You consistently show up for the cause, for each other, for the families we walk alongside… and for me.
As someone who almost always has more ideas than capacity, as a mum to three children with support needs, and as someone carrying a big vision for communities where the next generation can truly thrive — I can say with certainty that I could not have done this year alone.
And while it might not always be visible from the outside, 2025 has been tough. There have been moments of exhaustion, uncertainty, change, and recalibration. But through it all, this team has rallied — offering time, energy, compassion, and care (sometimes when they had very little left to give). That matters more than I can put into words.
Our team has changed a little this year, but what we’re proving — together — is that inclusion and wellbeing don’t require huge resources or perfection. They require commitment. A willingness to learn. To listen. To accommodate. To adapt. Little by little.
Thank you for believing in this work. Thank you for standing beside us. And thank you to a team who reminds me every day why this matters so deeply.
With gratitude,
Carol 🤍
Image description:
Four women from the Grow Therapy Services and The Inclusive Movement team stand behind a community stall filled with neuroaffirming books and resources. The table is set up at a community event, with colourful artwork displayed behind them and banners promoting inclusive, strengths-based support and community connection.
