Vetlife is delighted to announce its shortlisted for The Association of Charitable Organisations ( ACO ) Campaign of the Year Award 2024, supported by Family Fund Business Services.
The prestigious nomination celebrates Vetlife’s dedication to raising awareness about neurodiversity within the veterinary profession and its ongoing efforts to provide essential resources for both individuals and workplaces. The neurodiversity awareness campaign aims to bridge understanding and break down barriers within the veterinary community through a series of talks at various veterinary events throughout the year, an awareness video, a series of lived experience blogs, and a comprehensive downloadable resource. The campaign has been produced with grant funding from the Zoetis Foundation
The ACO Annual Awards recognise excellence across the charity sector and the achievements of grant-making/benevolent charities that provide financial and wellbeing support to individual.
Kirstie Pickles, Vetlife Trustee and project lead for the neurodiversity campaign, expressed her excitement about the nomination:
“I am thrilled and delighted that the Vetlife neurodiversity awareness campaign has been shortlisted for the ACO Campaign of the Year Award 2024. We knew from previous research that neurodivergent individuals can face many barriers and inequalities in veterinary practice and that lack of neurodiversity awareness was one of their biggest workplace stressors. We created the Vetlife neurodiversity campaign to help address this issue, which has had an overwhelmingly positive response from the veterinary community. To also achieve recognition from the ACO is fantastic and is a testament to the care and dedication that the working party and Vetlife team put into the campaign.”
Winners will be announced on 12 September 2024 in London.
