I’m delighted to share some news with you all: NeuroHub is now a Community Interest Company. Everything we do, from our community space and courses to the conference, research and publishing, now sits under one roof: NeuroHub Connect CIC.
It feels like a good moment to pause, look at what this community has grown into, and say thank you. So alongside the news, this post is a round-up of every NeuroHub project, old and new.
What is a CIC, and why does it matter?
A Community Interest Company is a type of limited company that exists to benefit a community rather than private shareholders. Two things set it apart:
An asset lock; what we build, and any surplus we make, has to be used for the benefit of the community.
Public accountability; each year we report to the CIC Regulator on what we’ve done for the community we serve.
NeuroHub has always been Autistic-led and community-first. Becoming a CIC writes that into our foundations. It also opens doors to grants, funders and partnerships that weren’t available to us before, which means more of what we build can stay free or low-cost.
For you, very little changes day to day. Same people, same community, same links. There’ll just be more of it.
NeuroHub Connect: the mycelium beneath it all
NeuroHub Connect is our free online community for neurodivergent adults. If NeuroHub were a forest, Connect would be the mycelial network underneath; the part that links everything together and keeps it alive. Regular gatherings include:
Community Connect Sessions
Mindfully Divergent sessions
Dungeons & Dragons sessions
A Mental Health Support Group
We also run a repeating impact survey within the community, looking at wellbeing and Autistic identity over time, so we can keep checking that what we do actually helps.
Join NeuroHub Connect for free
Everyday support tools
Phoenix; our free, neuro-affirming AI companion for questions, planning and support. Organisations can also add Phoenix to their own website or app.
NeuroHub Compass; a daily check-in app covering six areas of wellbeing, with a new idea each day, trends over time and Phoenix built in. Pay for six months and it’s yours for life.
Mindfully Divergent; a free meditation library, with members’ courses for those who want to go deeper.
One-to-one peer support; time with someone who understands neurodivergent life from the inside.
NeuroHub Horizons: courses and learning
NeuroHub Horizons brings our body of work together in one place, created in partnership with Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms.
Re-Storying Autism; an Autistic-led course for Autistic people, families, carers and practitioners, co-created with Helen. Seven modules, around four and a half hours of video, a free course book and workbook, and a certificate on completion.
Building a Positive Autistic Identity; a self-paced, game-style course of 95 short lessons across nine worlds, based on my book, with identity and wellbeing check-ins, a Growth Journal and Phoenix built in.
Embracing Our Autistic Selves; our live, discussion-based course, now also available as a three-part on-demand audio course.
Pre-recorded webinars; bite-sized learning you can watch whenever suits you.
For professionals and organisations
The Professional Gateway; our membership for professionals working with Autistic and neurodivergent people.
The Six-Point Framework; developed over ten years of working with Autistic people, covering Autistic experience, the sensory and emotional landscape, burnout, identity and language, trauma and safety, and learning from Autistic community.
The NeuroHub Platform; a branded client space for practitioners, practices and organisations, with onboarding, chat, files, wellbeing check-ins and Zoom sessions. A free demo is available.
Consultancy, training and public speaking; professional and academic knowledge grounded in lived experience.
Independent advocacy; for Autistic and neurodivergent people and their families.
The Autistic Mental Health Conference
In August we held our second annual Autistic Mental Health Conference: three days, hybrid, with an in-person day in Brighton and two days online. Thank you to every speaker, stallholder and attendee who made it what it was. If you missed it, recordings are available by the day or as a full bundle, and planning for 2027 is already under way.
NeuroHub Zine: the Library of Neurodivergent Alexandria
NeuroHub Zine is our library of the future: a free, open archive of neurodivergent writing, talks, podcasts and stories, made by and for the community. There's no paywall and no adverts; it's free to read, always. Our hope is that it becomes the biggest repository of neurodivergent knowledge and experience on the internet, and it can only get there with your contributions.
A new issue every Friday. Each issue is a curated selection of the pieces readers spent the most time with that week, with room for new arrivals. You can get it by email, read it online, download the PDF from the Print Room, or follow along by RSS.
Rooms to explore. The Library is shelved by format:
The Reading Room; articles and blogs.
The Screening Room; videos.
The Listening Room; podcasts.
The Halls; themed collections, such as "Finding Our People" and "Burnout and Coming Back".
Alongside them you'll find New Acquisitions, a catalogue of topics, a Fidget Drawer, and your own "My library" space to keep the pieces that matter to you.
Add to the Library. There are three ways to contribute:
Send us an original piece of writing, up to around 6,000 words; essays, personal stories, poems, creative work, reviews or pitches are all welcome.
Share a link to something you've already published, such as a blog post, video or podcast episode.
Let the Library follow your blog, channel or podcast, so your new work joins automatically.
You keep the copyright, and you can ask for your work to be taken down at any time. Our librarians usually reply within two weeks.
Recent contributors include The Wider Existence, Autistic Realms, Stimpunks Foundation, Breaking The Frame and Jade's Neurodiversity Newsletter. If you'd like to help keep the Library free, you can become a patron. It never changes what you can read; it helps with hosting, tools and, one day, paying our contributors.
Neurodivergent News: our new news service
We've also launched Neurodivergent News, covering neurodivergent people and the decisions that affect us; UK first, then the rest of the world. It reports on Autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, dyspraxic and wider neurodivergent lives, and asks of every policy story the question that so often gets skipped: how does this affect neurodivergent people?
What you get:
A free morning email when each new issue is out, with headlines, short summaries and a PDF edition.
Rolling stories on the site, tagged by topic; eg; community, families, identity, policy and work.
A Research section, with new papers explained in plain English and linked to the original study.
"From NeuroHub" updates, always clearly labelled, so you know what's news and what's us.
Built-in accessibility settings, including text size, line spacing, a dyslexia-friendly font, high contrast and reduced motion.
How it's made. Neurodivergent News is neuro-affirming, uses identity-first language and doesn't campaign for any political party. Articles are written and fact-checked with AI from named, linked sources, in our own words, and every story lists its sources at the end. I edit the service, and stories on sensitive topics are approved by me before they go out. We follow the Editors' Code of Practice voluntarily, and when we get something wrong we put it right quickly and say so.
The email is free. If you'd like to help keep it going, you can support Neurodivergent News; contributions are a gift, not a purchase, and supporters have no say over what we cover.
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NeuroHub Publishing and new books
NeuroHub Publishing helps neurodivergent authors get their books into the world. Build your book with our guided Book Builder or bring a finished manuscript; we’ll format it, design the cover and publish it on Amazon KDP, Kobo or Bookvault. You keep the copyright, and no diagnosis is needed.
It’s also the home of our own books:
Supporting Autistic People: A Six-Point Framework Handbook; out on Kindle on 27 November 2026 and available to pre-order now.
Re-Storying Autism (with Helen Edgar); a new 2027 edition, A Framework For Autistic People, Carers and Supporting Practitioners, with a separate Companion Workbook.
A Neurodivergent Guide to the Mental Health Act (England); a booklet for people who are detained, their families, and the professionals around them; free to download from our resources page.
After Normal: Autistic Essays on a Broken Society and the Ecosystems We Grow Instead; the fifth anniversary edition of The New Normal, revised and expanded with eight new chapters. Out 7 April 2027 and available to pre-order now.
Things to watch, read and listen to
The NeuroHub Community Journal; this Substack, home to NeuroHub Live!, Autistic Storytime With David, and our research write-ups.
The Wider Existence Podcast; Helen Edgar and I exploring the existential diversity of humankind, with new episodes on Tuesdays.
Mycelial Mind: NeuroKin Connections; conversations on connection and neuro-affirming practice.
Neurodivergent Tangential Exploration; a livestream series on neurodivergence and spirituality.
Exclusive episodes with Philia Sense; conversations about building technology to predict Autistic burnout.
Emergent Divergence; my blog, now 250+ posts and counting, alongside explainer videos on YouTube.
Still growing
NeuroKin Play; a platform in development where neurodivergent gamers can team up with safe players, find a fireteam, and stream their gameplay.
The Neurodivergent Humanities Study Group; a curriculum developed with Helen Edgar across four six-week blocks: Deleuze & Guattari, post-humanism, ethodiversity, and community ecology.
Thank you
None of this exists without you. Every person who has joined a session, taken a course, submitted to the Zine, filled in a survey or shared a post has helped this ecosystem grow. Becoming a CIC is our commitment that it will keep growing for the community, with the community.
If you’d like to help, the simplest things make a real difference: join NeuroHub Connect, submit your work to the Zine, subscribe to the Journal, or share this post with someone who might need it.
With gratitude,
David
Find out more
NeuroHub Community; our main hub for individuals, families and professionals.
NeuroHub Connect; our free online community.
NeuroHub Horizons; courses, tools and publishing, in partnership with Autistic Realms.
NeuroHub Publishing; self-publishing for neurodivergent authors, with the Book Builder.
Re-Storying Autism; the Autistic-led course with Helen Edgar.
NeuroHub Zine; the Library of Neurodivergent Alexandria.
Neurodivergent News; news about neurodivergent people and the decisions that affect us.
The Wider Existence; writing and podcast with Helen Edgar.
NeuroHub Connect CIC is registered in England and Wales, company number 17563945.