ALTERNATIVE PROVISION · SURREY
Education and therapy, designed together.
Specialist provision for neurodivergent children and young people across Surrey — built around how each young person actually works, not around what’s easiest to timetable.
Where we start
- What overwhelms them
- The corridor at changeover. Being asked to explain in front of the class.
- What steadies them
- Working with their hands. Knowing exactly what happens next.
- What they can do on a hard day
- Turn up. Sit near, if not with. That counts.
Every placement begins with a formulation — an understanding of one young person, not a category they fall into.
Some young people don’t find their footing in the settings available to them — including good ones.
That might be a young person who hasn’t managed school for months, or one who has their GCSEs and is still at home, exhausted, years later.
We work with young people who are neurodivergent, diagnosed or not yet, and with young people whose difficulties have grown out of what has happened to them: young people caring for someone at home, living in care, or who came to their family through adoption.
For parents and families
If your child isn’t managing education as it stands, we can talk about what might fit. You don’t need a referral to start a conversation.
For schools and local authorities
Commissioned Alternative Educational Provision, trauma-informed specialist support, and in-school work for neurodivergent pupils. Registered on Surrey’s Dynamic Purchasing System.
WHAT WE DO
Four ways in, one way of working.
Alternative Educational Provision
Formulation-led provision for young people who need something different. Education and therapy as one offer, not two.
Groups and programmes
Therapeutic and skills-based groups for children and teens — creative and art therapy, social communication, executive functioning, anxiety and self-esteem.
Working with parents
Parents are central to a young person getting back into education, and are too often left to manage alone. We offer parenting support alongside the work we do with young people.
Work in schools
Support delivered in your setting: post-diagnosis support after an ADHD diagnosis, and social communication skills blended with executive functioning support.
OUR STORY
Amity began with a group of young people that existing provision couldn't hold.
Therapy alone couldn’t reach the part of the problem that was educational. Education alone couldn’t reach the part that was psychological.
Some had left mainstream education through emotionally based school avoidance and hadn’t managed specialist settings either — including good schools, well run, doing everything they were supposed to do. What they had in common wasn’t a diagnosis or an attainment gap. It was that the shape of what was on offer didn’t fit them.
So we built something where those aren’t separate. What we do has been shaped, more than anything, by what young people have told us about why previous provision didn’t work for them.
Start with a conversation.
No referral needed, no obligation. Tell us a little about your young person and a member of our team will read it and reply.
The Amity Community Project CIC is a community interest company. Any surplus we make goes back into the work.