Lucy's Lights

We need you 🫵
Interested in volunteering? We are looking for fun, caring and supportive people to volunteer with us. We are an autistic charity supporting women aged 16+ who are going through a diagnosis, are diagnosed or who are self diagnosed with autism. We run regular activities and provide our members with opportunities that wouldn’t usually be accessible for their needs. Duties would include helping at events, both public and private, providing support to our members and making sure our members are always having fun !
If you are interested please send us a message or email us at [email protected]
Thank you ❤️

What a fantastic day 🤩 we would like to say a big thank you to Wayne from Strathisla Inflatable FUN for all his help today and for letting us have this incredible inflatable for our family and friends day ! We raised a total of £404 ! Which is amazing 😍 we hope everyone who came along had lots of fun.

Due to the number of people we are expecting at our inflatable event on Wednesday, we will be operating a sticker system. On arrival you will be issued with a coloured sticker and will have an hour session, once your colour is called we would ask that you leave so that everyone coming can have a turn.
Also 6pm-7pm will be strictly for MEMBERS ONLY.
There will be donation buckets scattered around the hall if you wish to make a donation 😊

We now have merchandise available for our members to order !

-Hoodies
-T-shirts
-Bucket hats
-Tote bags

If you would like an order form please email [email protected]

Our first ever coffee morning complete ✅ and what an amazing turn out we had ! Huge shout out to all our members who came along and helped with everything, you guys were amazing and without you this wouldn’t have been possible ❤️

We raised over £400, all the money will go towards paying for activities for the group ☺️ Our next fundraiser is in January so keep a look out for more information about that coming very soon.

A gentle reminder that we are an autism charity, run by autistic individuals so our public events may not be perfect but we are all trying our best 🥰

Lastly a shoutout to Fika who donated a whopping £20 gift voucher to our raffle! A great local cafe I’m sure the winner will be thrilled with!

Huge thank you to Will for giving our members a bushcraft and foraging session this evening. Thankfully the weather held up 🤗 we all learnt so much from how to build and lite fires, forage for and cook seaweed, forage for flowers to make tea and to finish off we learnt how to whittle!
Our next event is our fundraiser 🤩 This Saturday, Forres town hall, 10am-12pm. We hope to see as many of you there as possible. All money raised will go towards the cost of activities for our members to enjoy ☺️

Calling all Neurodivergent Families in Moray

ICON Moray would like to invite you to a Picnic in the Park being held on:

*** Friday 19th July, 12.30pm -3.30 pm at Craigellachie Park and Pavillion ***
https://buytickets.at/moraywellbeinghub/1297802

Join a family focused event where families with neurodivergent children and young people, can come together for peer-support.

There'll be games, picnic food and a sensory space. Booking essential to ensure there is the right spread of picnic food! https://buytickets.at/moraywellbeinghub/129780

The event is hosted by ICON Moray members and Champions of Moray Wellbeing Hub who aim to create a welcoming supportive space for all.

Feel free to share this event with those you feel it would benefit.

ParentAble Moray
& Neurodiversity - North Scotland Moray Health Visitors & School Nurses Health and Social Care Moray Elgin High School, Moray Lossiemouth High School Speyside High School

A year ago yesterday our beloved friend Lucy sadly took her own life. She was kind, brave, honest, intelligent, genuine and a true friend. She put up an inspirational fight, battling everyday to survive in a world that felt so very overwhelming. Despite facing her own challenges, Lucy always wanted to help others. Her goal was to create a safe space for autistic females to come and support one another, to reduce isolation and improve people’s mental health and well-being. To create a support network for those with similar challenges to herself, to hopefully help people feel less alone. Unfortunately Lucy was let down by multiple services and due to a late autism diagnosis and the wrong support (a common story we hear way too often) Lucy’s time was cut short and she never quite got the chance to turn this dream into reality. Our biggest regret was there not being somewhere where Lucy felt safe, happy, included and supported.
Millie and Rachel continued lucys vision and in her memory created Lucy’s lights. Since starting Lucy’s lights we now know how vital our work is and the impact it can have on people’s lives. We couldn’t save Lucy, however we hope that in her memory we can save lives going forward, making sure that before, through and after the diagnosis process, females are supported and know they are never alone.
Without Lucy this charity wouldn’t exist so we all owe her a massive thank you for thinking of others even when she was struggling herself ❤️

Huge thank you to Outfit Moray for an amazing day of white water rafting ! Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it, including those who were nervous to begin with. The weather was perfect, some members even jumped off the boat to cool off in the river (videos to follow !!)
It has been a great day and we will definitely be back for another day out soon 😁

Hi all, with our coffee morning coming up we are on the hunt for raffle prizes, if anyone has anything to donate it would be much appreciated!

Hoping to have a bottle store and chocolate store raffle so anything for that would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Rachel

Tonight we had the wonderful Costal Creations - Mobile Pottery Studio deliver a pottery painting session for our members! It was so much fun and everyone’s creativity was amazing 🤩 it was great to see so many people there tonight ! Thank you so much everyone for making it an awesome night 🙂 Our next event is White water rafting with Outfit moray. Limited spaces available. Please email [email protected] to secure your place

Why not check out The Inkwell Moray ‘bread and banter’ session. A small and relaxed group where you can socialise, take part in fun optional activities and also have a bite to eat. This session is free and is available for 16-25 year olds. ❤️

Our next Bread & Banter session is now live to book 🍞🗣

Come along to our relaxed space on Thursday 13th June between 6pm-8pm. For this sessions free meal, you can build your own Pizza to be cooked in our garden ovens, and then build you own dessert. If you want, you can chat to others, use our VR & consoles for gaming, do some crafts, play board games, choose the tunes, and let us know what type of things you’d like at future sessions.

These sessions are completely free to all 16-25 year olds, but we do ask that you book in advance at www.bookwhen.com/theinkwell. We will be keeping numbers quite low, and sessions are very laid back.

Thanks to our funders & supporters: Third Sector Interface Moray & Tesco Extra

Thank you so much to SurfABLE Scotland for supporting Lucy’s lights by donating 2 free surfing sessions for our members to enjoy ! Everyone had an awesome time and we will definitely be back !! Well done to everyone who came along and gave it a go 🤩 you were all amazing !
Our next event is Rock-pooling at cummingston beach run by the fantastic Will Hall !
We hope to see you all there

Hi everyone! All members who had signed up to our surfing event on Sunday 12th May which we unfortunately had to cancel, we have managed to rearrange this event for Sunday 19th May @6:30pm.

‼️IMPORTANT‼️ TODAYS SURFING EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Unfortunately due to the surf forecast for today surfing will not be possible. We are really sorry for cancelling at such short notice however we want everyone attending to have the best experience and today this would not be possible.

Another very successful craft night ! Thank you so much to everyone who came tonight. We just love seeing new people come and join our Lucy’s lights family, everyone comes in so nervous but by the end of their first session they are chatting, laughing, making new friends and supporting one another 🩷 Huge thank you to The Inkwell Moray for coming to the rescue and letting us use their venue tonight. Our next event is surfing with SurfABLE ! This is by far Millie and Rachel’s most favourite activity on our planner this year 😆 we hope you will all come along and enjoy it just as much as we do 🌊🏄‍♀️

MEMBERS PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAILS

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow we are holding our craft night, this was meant to be held at Elgin Academy. Unfortunately due to exams this has been cancelled. Millie and Rachel have been frantically trying to find a new venue so that our craft night can still go ahead. We have provisionally booked Elgin Youth Cafe, however they are unable to confirm our booking until tomorrow morning. With this being said we are unsure if the craft night will still be possible. If Elgin Youth Cafe are unable to facilitate our booking you will hear from us again tomorrow, cancelling this event. If you do not hear from us again, then our craft night will go ahead at Elgin youth cafe tomorrow evening at 5pm. We hope to see you all there ! Please accept our apologies for this very sudden change. We will be in touch tomorrow if this event will not go ahead.
Thank you for your understanding

Millie and Rachel

*POSTPONED* Our beach walk this evening is being postponed due to the weather 🌦️ we will rearrange for a day with hopefully better weather so it is more enjoyable 😊

*EVENT REMINDER WEDNESDAY 10th APRIL*
Join us at west beach, Lossiemouth for a relaxed evening beach walk 5pm-7pm. Bring along parents, friends, carers, support workers and of course your furry friends 🐶

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lucyslights/1201560?

Join the guestlist – Beach walk – Lossiemouth West Beach Come on a relaxed walk along the beach. Bring along friends, family, support workers etc and don’t forget about your furry frie...

Happy world autism awareness day everyone ! For girls with or on the road to diagnosis can be a long and difficult one. From misdiagnosis, to us not fitting the stereotypical presentation, the lack of understanding and outdated research. It can leave us feeling misunderstood and isolated, spending most of our lives never feeling like we fit anywhere. Here at Lucy’s lights we support all our members whether they have a diagnosis, are going through assessment or are undiagnosed. We create a safe and inclusive space where females can come and fit in, find their people and support each other whilst having fun !
If you would like any more information about what we do please visit our website www.lucyslights.com or message us on Facebook

Check out some of our upcoming events! 🚶‍♀️🧵🏄‍♀️🐚

💸Everything is free to attend
♾️Open to all autistic women and non-binary folk

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Happy Easter to all our members !! 🐣 Yesterday we had our Easter eggs hunt and walk through the woods, it was lots of fun and we hoped everyone enjoyed it 😁 Our next event is our beach walk in Lossiemouth, we will keep our fingers crossed for good weather! Remember to bring along your furry friends if you would like to 🐶

This morning we were at Elgin academy giving a talk about autism in girls. Thank you Elgin academy for having us ! Well done to Rachel for delivering the talk, you did an amazing job. 🩷

Today we had the privilege of hosting an interesting and informative talk by Rachel and Millie from the Moray charity ‘Lucy’s Lights’. A number of staff members and pupils joined together to learn about Autism in women and girls. Thank you very much to everyone who took part!

Go check out our new Tik Tok page created by the wonderful Tegan Moir!

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40.lucyslights%3F_t%3D8hpH9T37Wld%26_r%3D1%26fbclid%3DIwAR2E-ww_JPCq7cuXzCJOUtn-Nj123i2vbD5JrZJ1UYcSSDh6VmhnMGVGVlA&h=AT0o5Tzvd6YOqM8wON2ScUjacCLQle6LNqrsr__HMsD9kOjdBMWoQaoLz0Y8YGrVezHucn-TwThJyKCkaaMWOIPnCsbM-J7_NHIidDIktmHFPQNrKE_HF0bIK5rj41SDleC6MjnMSps

✨Autism✨ on TikTok @.lucyslights 2550 Followers, 330 Following, 12.9k Likes - Watch awesome short videos created by ✨Autism✨

‼️Volunteering‼️

If anyone is interested in volunteering with us pop us a message!

This could include the following:
- Helping to host and run activities
- Behind-the-scenes planning
- Fundraising
- Social media and advertisement
- Transport
- Any other input!

Millie and Rachel have been busy tonight in Buckie ! We went to visit our new friends at the Buckie Friendship group. Such a lovely group of people who create a safe space for those with ASN to come have fun and make new friends. They meet every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. We would encourage everyone to go and try out their group !
We can’t wait to work in partnership to create future events. Buckie friendship group is going to help us ensure that Lucy’s Lights reaches out to everyone in moray who would like support ❤️
There were even talks of holding a WOW WALK !! A walk around Buckie with lots of glow sticks, lights and dressing up as a symbol of us carrying on Lucy’s legacy and her shining lights !! Sounds like fun 🤩

After the success of yesterday, we are busy planning the next group activity! Currently, we don't have funding so we are relying on the money raised via fundraising.

We have created a JustGiving page so we can accept donations if anyone wishes to support us that way too!

Many thanks from the team at Lucy's Lights ❤️

Help raise £100 to Help autistic women in Moray Weʼre raising money to Help autistic women in Moray. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

Thank you everyone so much for an amazing afternoon. It was great to see so many faces ! Such a great location for our first meet up, the animals proved to be very popular, Zelda the herdwick lamb was definitely a favourite amongst the group 😍 the animals are now full with apples and lots of digestive biscuits 😆 Thank you The Paddock Broom of Moy for letting us use the space ! And a special thank you to Safi for making all those lovely cakes for everyone to enjoy 😊 We can’t wait to see you all again soon !For those who didn’t manage to come along today, don’t worry we are busy planning future events and these will be advertised on our website and page soon.

Rachel and Millie were busy at the recording studio last week with the lovely ladies at KCR 107.7 ! Have a listen to this clip and tune into the fabulous KCR 😃

Benefit From Advice, Lucy's Lights 13 November 2023 Have you heard about a new support group for autistic women in Moray called Lucy's Lights? Catch up at any time here to hear all about it.

Have you heard about a new support group for autistic women in Moray called Lucy's Lights?

Tune in Monday 13 November at 6pm or catch up next day at 10am to hear all about it.