My name is Waheeda Hales and I have been a resident of Bath for over a decade. For the best part of this decade, I have been supporting Autistic girls and women. A voluntary job in 2014 acting as a mentor to an Autistic teenage girl with ADHD became the springboard for a career in social care. I have worked with many individual clients with additional needs, but my particular interest is autism in females – something I believe that there is not enough general knowledge about.

In 2022, I was delighted to discover that a charity with this theme at its heart existed just down the road from me in Bristol! I became a volunteer and eventually a trustee, in October 2022. Outside of my paid and charity work I am involved in a variety of activities. My greatest passion is improvised drama, which I perform with groups in Bath and Bristol – and sometimes further afield! I am evangelical about improv, as I always say that “life doesn’t come with a script…”.