Members’ Area

Professional Groups

If you are a member of any of our professional groups, you can access their dedicated area below.

Expand each group in order to view the dates and times of the meetings or click the group’s purple button to be taken to its page of resources, if relevant.

When an organisation joins the Alliance the CEO is responsible for nominating staff members to attend the professional groups. If you are interested in attending or have any queries about membership of these groups, please contact your CEO or, for any administrative issues, please contact Poppy Smith on poppy.smith@autismalliance.org.uk.

High value online networking for our member CEOs, with discussion topics chosen by the CEOs.


Providing a confidential peer forum for Chairs and Trustees of autism specialist organisations to discuss strategic and governance topics and share good practice.


Bringing together communications and external affairs professionals to provide peer support, share new work on communications and campaigning, and work together on resources that promote autism understanding and acceptance.


Bringing together fundraising managers to learn from one another, discuss sector challenges and develop practical opportunities for collaboration.


Bringing together HR Directors/leads to share approaches, innovation and learning, and to discuss specific challenges and opportunities.


Bringing together CEOs or SMT members to share effective practice in this area and identify practical opportunities for action.


Bringing together professional heads of practice to provide peer support, share experiences, and work together on projects that move forward practice across our sector and beyond.