AP Cymru are delighted to announce a new Ambassador for the charity - Peter Heathcote. Peter Heathcote is a passionate advocate for inclusion, wellbeing, community engagement, and charitable causes. Drawing upon a lifetime of public service, volunteering, and personal experience, he is dedicated to helping individuals and communities overcome barriers and achieve their full potential. A keen adventurer, horseman, and campaigner, Peter has undertaken challenging activities aro

Yesterday, I did something completely out of my comfort zone. I climbed into a pod, shut the lid… and sat in complete darkness, floating in warm water for an hour. Now, let me be honest — I am not someone who enjoys the dark. My brain usually needs stimulation, distraction, something to hold onto. Silence and stillness don’t come naturally to me. But something about this experience was different. There were no expectations. No demands. No noise. No notifications. No “Mum…” No

Our government is trying to help our educational provisions and the children it is failing… but they need to understand this. Inclusion isn’t a room at the end of a corridor. It isn’t a timetable slot. It isn’t one person’s job. Inclusion is a culture. And culture always starts at the top. As schools move toward “greater inclusion”, I find myself thinking this: If inclusion sits only with the ALNCo it will always feel like an add-on. When it is led by senior leadership, it be

Recently, we received a Highly Commended Award at the Cardiff Business Awards for the charity that I founded 16 years ago. It was one of the proudest moments of my life — I honestly still feel emotional thinking about it. But that moment is also the reason I’m writing this.

There are days when the smallest task feels like standing at the bottom of a mountain. I can see the top clearly — it’s just sending that email, starting that report, folding the washing. Simple, right? But somehow, my feet won’t move. My brain knows what needs to happen, but it’s like someone has cut the rope between knowing and doing.

"You're a clean freak," "a little bit particular," "she just likes things just so." For years, those were the simple labels people gave my struggles—labels I often used myself to explain away the constant, exhausting mental battles I was fighting. But deep down, I always knew it was far more serious than a quirk. It was a suffocating, non-stop loop of thoughts and compulsions that had secretly been dictating my life, long before I ever had a name for it. Before my diagnosis,

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