{"id":760774,"date":"2026-09-05T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/760774\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:34:12","slug":"birminghams-lisieux-trust-celebrates-40-years-helping-autistic-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/760774\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham&#8217;s Lisieux Trust celebrates 40 years helping autistic adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Birmingham charity is marking 40 years of helping adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults live more independent, fulfilling lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lisieux Trust, founded in 1986, is bringing back staff, volunteers and the founders who set up the charity in a celebration on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Horton, from Sutton Coldfield, lives in supported accommodation and has been assisted by the organisation for 12 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told the BBC how he was a baton bearer at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and competed as a Special Olympics GB badminton athlete while with the trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff at the trust, which supports 64 residents across Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield, said his achievements reflected their ethos &#8211; helping people &#8220;live the life they want to live&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Horton, who is autistic, told the BBC how the trust helps him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They help me do my banking, do my washing, do my bed. Support me with cooking &#8211; everything,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They even helped me find a voluntary job, which I&#8217;ve been at for 12 or 13 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Birmingham charity is marking 40 years of helping adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults live more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-760774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}