PXC celebrated a successful annual ‘Night of Ambition’ event in London recently, raising £330,000 for the Ambitious about Autism charity, focused on pledging support to its Assistive Technology initiative which aims to improve access to learning, independence and participation through technology for autistic children and young people
This year’s event was the 16th annual Night of Ambition which saw over 350 people in attendance at Raffles London at The OWO in Whitehall.
Hosted by actor Christopher Eccleston, the event was run in partnership with Headline Sponsor CGI, alongside other sponsors including Tech Mahindra, Pega, Openreach, CityFibre, MDS Global & NICE.
The money raised will go towards improving the quality of life for autistic young people while in education by providing additional assistive technology resources to learning environments across the UK.
Assistive technology is hardware and software that helps people express themselves in a way that others can understand and includes tablets, visual or audio aids, voice recognition programmes and speech generating devices.
This technology brings huge benefits to autistic young people’s independence, learning and wellbeing helping them communicate with others more easily.
Christopher Eccleston said: “At a time when so much seems uncertain in the world it is refreshing to be in a room surrounded by great people focused on positive change. My work over the years has involved exploring neurodiversity, and to this day the work we did on The A Word still gets people talking and that is good.”