Resource For The Whole Of Greater Manchester’s Autism Community

Client: Greater Manchester Autism Consortium and GM Autism
Website: AutismGM

Screenshot of the Greater Manchester Autism Consortium homepage on a desktop display, featuring the main navigation, a search bar, and a hero section with a background image of a young child spinning in a sunlit park. — **GM Autism Homepage:** The landing page of the website, designed to provide accessible information, resources and local support for autistic individuals and their families.

Teal background information card featuring two logos at the top left corner, followed by two paragraphs of explanatory text regarding the Greater Manchester Autism Consortium, its partnerships, and the abbreviation 'GM' used on the site. — **About GMAC and GM Autism:** An introductory information card on the website that clearly outlines the charity’s mission, key partnerships, and terminology used across the website.

The Greater Manchester Autism Consortium (GMAC) needed more than a website. They needed a digital home for one of the most important communities in the region.

Their existing online presence wasn’t doing justice to the breadth of support, services, and information available to autistic people and their families across Greater Manchester.

The scale of the project was significant. The site needed to serve a wide range of users, from parents of newly diagnosed children to autistic adults navigating services independently to professionals working across the sector.

Our team approached the build with that diversity of users in mind from the very start, structuring information by geography so people could quickly find what’s relevant to where they live, and designing a navigation experience that is calm, clear, and easy to follow.

Screenshot of the 'My Area' page on the Greater Manchester Autism Consortium website, featuring a title, introductory text, and a grid of ten clickable cards representing local councils, each displaying a different landmark or aerial view of a Greater Manchester borough. — **My Area:** A directory page that allows users to select their local council borough to find specific events, support and local public resources.

Screenshot of the 'Quick Links' section, featuring a 3x4 grid of twelve thematic navigation cards including Assessment, Communication, and Employment, followed by a text section with information about autism assessments. — **Quick Links and Assessment Information:** A navigation and guidance section that categorises support resources into distinct topics, helping users quickly find relevant information and assessment guidelines.

Because our team includes neurodivergent designers and developers who have navigated similar services themselves, we knew what to prioritise: plain language, logical structure, minimal visual noise, and a site that doesn’t make you work hard to find the basics.

The result is a comprehensive, accessible resource that genuinely serves the community it was built for.

Mari Saeki
Greater Manchester Autism Consortium

“SENDCode have been incredible partners in our mission to update the GM Autism website. Over 12 months they worked patiently and meticulously despite our lack of experience in commissioning a website. The work felt like true collaboration, and we are delighted with the final version of the website. It was also really meaningful to know that the team working on this were neurodivergent themselves. Thank you to the team for all of their hard work.”

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