Support Connect

Support Connect Support Connect is a company founded on neurodiversity.

With our team of specialist mentors, we can connect you to the support you need to overcome your challenges with learning or mental health, in education, at work or at home.

16/12/2025

Wow! What a year!
And it's all thanks to our dedicated team, partnerships, collaborations and YOU, our valued training providers who bring us on board to help support your apprentices.

Reflecting on just some of this year's highlights...

🌟 Our largest growth in the past 5 years
🌟 A growing team and client base
🌟 Launching our own neurodiversity screener
🌟 Investing in tailored SEN learning technology
🌟 Continuing to meet our high standards of inclusion and those of Ofsted
🌟 Apprentices surpassing their expected achievement
🌟 Overwhelming, positive and heart-warming feedback

We are so proud that Support Connect continues to be the extended part of your team, helping you to achieve and deliver outstanding results for the apprentices we collectively support.

Looking forward to next year, with much more still to come!

From the Support Connect team, wishing you all a happy new year!

One-to-one human support is at the heart of what we do, so come and meet the family! Introducing one of our Senior Mento...
18/11/2025

One-to-one human support is at the heart of what we do, so come and meet the family!

Introducing one of our Senior Mentors, Becca Merrell 🌟

What experience do you bring to your role?

I have over 14 years’ experience teaching and supporting learners at school and in further and higher education, with a strong background in psychology. I have both positive and negative personal experiences of education which helps me empathise with challenges, whilst also helping learners to reflect on how their course might benefit them.

What do you enjoy the most about your work?

I absolutely love that we get to know learners in their full context – I’ve always thought holistically about people and their experiences and I believe that having a 360-degree view helps to shape support around what truly matters to them.

What makes you spring out of bed in the morning or makes you smile?

Connecting with people, cold sunny days, and 70/80s disco music!
I am also a practising artist (when I have time) and have had several commissions. I love painting historic or run-down buildings, especially industrial ones. I like the atmosphere they create!

What are you most proud of?

I was lucky enough to complete a master’s degree in psychology when my son was between 9 months and 2 years old. I honestly didn’t know I had it in me, and it was a reminder of the confidence and motivation that education can bring into your life.

What barriers have you overcome?

A big one for me was maths. I loved it as a child but lost all my confidence as a teenager and completely switched off. It was supporting children with additional needs in maths, as a Teaching Assistant, that made me remember what I liked about it. I achieved additional qualifications and then completed my teacher training and taught maths for 7 years! It was a healing experience for me. I don’t teach anymore but run a YouTube channel called Maths With Becca, to help others who find maths difficult:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/

📣 Introducing: This Is Me📰 Read all about it!In partnership with Roger Broadbent, Director of the Dyslexia Institute and...
03/09/2025

📣 Introducing: This Is Me
📰 Read all about it!

In partnership with Roger Broadbent, Director of the Dyslexia Institute and Empowerment Passport Ltd, we've created our own portal for neurodiversity screening and customisable support system to help organisations champion their neurodivergent employees or learners.

Read the full press release here:
https://screener.supportconnect.org.uk/press_release_this_is_me_support_connect.pdf

Or click through to see how it can help your organisation and access a free trial for up to five users:
https://screener.supportconnect.org.uk/register-company

🌱 Wellbeing WednesdayWellbeing isn’t just a nice to have, it’s the foundation of sustainable learning and growth.For man...
20/08/2025

🌱 Wellbeing Wednesday

Wellbeing isn’t just a nice to have, it’s the foundation of sustainable learning and growth.

For many neurodivergent apprentices, rest can feel unearned or even guilt-inducing. But taking breaks, setting boundaries, and acknowledging your capacity are essential, not optional.

This Wednesday, think about:

· What helps you recharge?

· What boundaries need protecting?

· What does rest look like for you, not just what others expect?

Wellbeing isn’t a reward. It’s part of the work.

📻 This week's recommended listen...As the school summer holidays begin, it reminds us of a Woman's Hour segment that man...
14/07/2025

📻 This week's recommended listen...

As the school summer holidays begin, it reminds us of a Woman's Hour segment that many parents may find helpful to hear...

'What is it like to parent a neurodivergent child when you are neurodivergent yourself? Anita Rani speaks to listener Rachel, who discovered she had ADHD after her daughter was diagnosed, and Jo, whose children have dyslexia.'

Log in to BBC Sounds and have a listen 02:10 - 18:07
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022438

If you found this helpful, someone else might too, pass it on...

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At Support Connect, we connect you to the support you need through:

🎯 Neurodiversity Screening
💬 Learning & Wellbeing Support
💻 Assistive Technology Support
📚 Apprenticeship Support

📺 This Weekend's On The Box Recommended Watch: Jamie's Dyslexia Revolution 'Jamie Oliver explores the challenges and iss...
27/06/2025

📺 This Weekend's On The Box Recommended Watch: Jamie's Dyslexia Revolution

'Jamie Oliver explores the challenges and issues faced by thousands of school children who have dyslexia and are left behind in an archaic education system, and asks: what more can be done?'

Many of us know the academic struggle well.

That is why Support Connect exists and why we recently teamed up with Roger Broadbent, Director of the Dyslexia Institute, who Jamie had a chat with, to help apprentices pinpoint the support they need.

More on that to follow soon!

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Could this be the start of a much-needed reform to our existing education system?

What was your experience like at school?

What would you like to see change?

Watch the replay on My4:
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/jamies-dyslexia-revolution

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At Support Connect, we connect you to the support you need through:

🎯 Neurodiversity Screening

💬 Learning & Wellbeing Support

💻 Assistive Technology Support

📚 Apprenticeship Support

Have you heard about the EPA Support Hub?If those three words, End Point Assessment, stirs up nerves and self-doubt as y...
03/06/2025

Have you heard about the EPA Support Hub?

If those three words, End Point Assessment, stirs up nerves and self-doubt as you reach the end of your apprenticeship, worry not!

The Association of Apprentices UK know the apprenticeship journey all too well and after listening to their members, they have launched a fantastic EPA Support Hub to help calm all your worries!

Search for AoA Connect and sign up, it's free to join for all apprentices!

Between your training provider, the AoA and us, the support you need is here!

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We're proud to be a founding member of the AoA and should you need us, our team of Learning, Wellbeing and Assistive Technology Mentors can help you identify any learning differences or support needs you may have, show you helpful tools, and effective ways to study and prepare for your EPA.

If you feel you need extra support, send us a message or speak to your Learning Coach, as your training provider may already be working with us. If they aren't, ask them to contact us and we'll tell them everything they need to know to get you the additional support you need.

🔊 Help turn up the volume on the positives of ADHD!If you have a diagnosis of ADHD, are based in the UK and aged between...
28/05/2025

🔊 Help turn up the volume on the positives of ADHD!

If you have a diagnosis of ADHD, are based in the UK and aged between 18-25, you can contribute to a new 'study* on the positive aspects of ADHD and how those positive aspects might have beneficial mental health effects on ADHD youth.'

What makes you proud of your ADHD? Take part and share your positives!

*The study is led by King's College London and Steve Lukito

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At Support Connect, we connect training providers and apprentices to the support they need through:

🎯 Neurodiversity Screening
💬 Learning & Wellbeing Support
💻 Assistive Technology Support
📚 Apprenticeship Support

If you're an apprentice who feels like you're struggling and would like help identifying your challenges, or if you have a diagnosis that impacts your learning, speak to your Learning Coach, as your training provider may already be working with us. If they aren't, ask them to contact us and we'll tell them everything they need to know to get you the additional, funded support you need.

Email: contact@supportconnect.org.uk

We can underestimate how much our mental health can impact our capacity and ability to learn new skills.It can affect ou...
12/05/2025

We can underestimate how much our mental health can impact our capacity and ability to learn new skills.

It can affect our decision-making, memory and confidence, cause sleep deprivation and frustration, making focus a challenge.

Or sometimes an experience, memory or trauma creates a barrier to learning that we didn't know was there.

This year, our team of Wellbeing Mentors have delivered over 400 sessions of wellbeing support to students and apprentices, helping to build their confidence and resilience with tailored techniques, whether it be to:

• Manage stress or anxiety

• Help adapt to change or embrace more flexible thinking

• Improve self-esteem and recognise strengths

• Develop a healthy work/life balance

• Regulate alertness, motivation or perfectionism

• Or to simply be someone there to listen and share the load

Help us raise awareness that no one needs to struggle alone.

One conversation can make all the difference to help us become aware of what is holding us back.

There is power in community and support is here.

Follow Mental Health UK to help you be mindful of, and prioritise, your mental health.

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At Support Connect, we connect training providers and learners to the support they need through:

🎯 Neurodiversity Screening
💬 Learning & Wellbeing Support
💻 Assistive Technology Support
📚 Apprenticeship Support

If you need help supporting your learners, please get in touch.

We help you every step of the way, from onboarding to creating and monitoring individual support plans, delivering that support and helping you to claim learner support funding.

It’s our proud collaborations that enable us to connect apprentices to the support they need.We’re shining a spotlight o...
09/05/2025

It’s our proud collaborations that enable us to connect apprentices to the support they need.

We’re shining a spotlight on our apprenticeship delivering partners and today we welcome the CVS Group, who are a National Apprenticeship Regional Employer Award winner, providing hundreds of apprenticeships across England in the veterinary field, including veterinary nursing, veterinary nursing assistant, laboratory scientist degree, Customer Service, IT, accounting, marketing and HR legal to name a few!

Our team will support their apprentices with learning, wellbeing and assistive technology mentoring to achieve their best.

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At Support Connect, we connect training providers and learners to the support they need through:

🎯 Neurodiversity Screening
💬 Learning & Wellbeing Support
💻 Assistive Technology Support
📚 Apprenticeship Support

If you need help supporting your learners, please get in touch.

We help you every step of the way, from onboarding to creating and monitoring individual support plans, delivering that support and helping you to claim learner support funding.

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Shell Store, Canary Drive, Skylon Park
Hereford
HR26SR

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+441905427815

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