Thank you so much everyone for for coming, for I can for tuning in, for being part of this. This is the last chance you've got to donate. If you've not donated if you've already donated and you just you want to help us change what it means to positively change what it means to have ADHD, where our aim is to help people thrive. That's that's what we're here to do. And you can see we've not shied away from areas that are very, very tough as our closing segment has has talked about. And but gone into areas of talk, gone to different areas of the world, completely circumnavigated the globe, represented in every time zone. It's been it's been something else. And I'm a little tired.

It's I need to do thank yous and I was so tired I had to ask someone else to help me put together the list and in wonderful way and I can't now I can't find the perfect thing. The I'll find it. I will waffle for the next thirty seconds whilst I do find it. This has absolutely been a team effort without any question at all. We had this wonderful idea about twelve weeks ago, and we've just done it. And we've only been able to do it because of extraordinary people getting involved and saying, yeah, I'll do that. You know, people who would normally, you know, need booking, obviously, years in advance. You know, people like Microsoft and Google, people like just extraordinary experts.

And giving their time, everyone giving their time for free to make the difference. And, you know, the the aim is to be to change ADHD globally, nationally, locally, and individually to provide share that learning to raise us all up. So we hear things from different experts and from different countries so that we can all learn from them. And in doing so, rise everyone up. And as a side impact, create a a coalition of organizations and and individual charities working globally to to to come together. So we have have many meetings which we we come together to organize this conference. After this conference, we're having meetings to talk about how we can work together to change things. And for people who are hand over, particularly.

ADHD in New Zealand, they'll know that we're already doing that. So, for example, so their political work has been spectacular. They've created substantial change in New Zealand. We need to do that here. Right? We need to change it so people aren't waiting years for diagnosis. That they have to go private. That they that they have that they have options and private where they can. The where there is actually support afterwards. It isn't like, here's your assessment, off you go. And to provide real support, to change what it's like in the workplace, to find those that support there, give people ideas and practical things around adjustments.

That will make a difference. Change how it is for kids in school so they get actual support and things that will make a difference for them. Help people in universities where they've got ADHD and the the the big difference where there's suddenly a complete change of structure from much going from structural school to then almost none, and that can help those. And and we heard the dramatic impact that are the ADHD suicide numbers, which are are so high and actually represent also represent, how hard so many people are struggling with ADHD and that need for us to change. We are here fighting it. So ADHD UK wrote we we are this is what we're doing and so please do donate. We get no government funds and to go to global@adhd.com.

And click the donate button. That is probably the last time I'll say that in this session. Thank you. Have to give huge incredible thank you to Christine who's sitting next door to me. I'm gonna put her on screen. She has been the absolute freaking to the camera. Hello, Christine. She is like honestly, I I I we've been co collaborators in this and the sort of uns like, well, now sung hero of the this would not have been possible by a very large margin without her enormous enormous efforts. Unless she wants to say a few words in a second, so I'm gonna that was the exciting screen. So deprive her of the limelight just yet again. That's fine. The oh, so I managed to lose the screen. Anna in the office has been incredible.

Huge workload has gone on her. Like, is I and others have focused on the conference. Anna's had to pick up both work on the conference and pick up, keeping the charity running incredibly well. She's been extraordinary. Terry has been volunteering and with the simple, like, you like, I'll just like, give me tasks, I'll do them, and just and Terry and Anna were the night team keeping this show on the road during the night. They had to deal with a network breakdown, an entire audio breakdown, and they dealt with it with a problem. They're absolutely extraordinary, and we kept the show on the road, which is a no mean feat. And we've got Matthew Roberts, who've been enormously helpful around the marketing, around the content.

Constantly pulling ideas and creating new things. Lorna, who's new to the team and there's a bucket of enthusiasm around the fundraising, around the support, and it's wonderful. And and Dan, who's been an incredible person doing particularly doing the videos. So a lot of all the well, I think all or the vast majority of the videos you saw and the interstitials gave me the time to sort stuff out, that was Dan. And he, again, put a huge amount of time into those. Those things take a while, and he was wonderful. And then we've got Danny and Ishan. So the code you've seen, so the where people put in questions, and then you can boost, which a number of people did.

It's an excuse to donate and put your question at the top. That was all coded by then. They have volunteers and are wonderful people, and that is the basis of some technology that's gonna launch in the next few weeks. We passionately think that that, you know, that those ideas, those strategies, those products that can make a difference, you know, you see them in lists as if they fit everyone, they just don't. So we want to create a well, we are creating a system where people can vote and comment and not vote in, so you can find different see which ones work. It's a review platform, which, you know, the non ADHD people, they have anyway. Right? That's the app store. It's reviews for people.

The general population. We need that for us, and that's what that's actually built for. They then put in a huge effort to pivot it into doing our Q and A as well. They've been fantastic and are incredibly skilled people. I need to thank my trustees, fellow trustees Jane Roberts and Max Davy who have been extremely kind and frankly like a lot of stuff that was supposed to have done or not done and to the extent done conference and glad we'll they've been very kind of that and Jane is extraordinary and has provided significant funds which has meant the charity is what it is it's a huge donation it's life.

Changing for the charity and those we in fact we wouldn't be able to employ people wouldn't have an office without her at this point like it's it's like yeah and you know creating a charity, pushing it through is an extraordinary hard thing to do and without her money on this and her donation, her support, and her time, and her effort, she's it would not be possible. So thank you specifically to her. And I have to say thank you to all the 53 contributors. You'll be delighted here. I'm not intending to list every single one because that will be well, it would take ages, and I don't think you want to. Probably have to do some particularly big thank yous. There are a few that everyone is important.

There'll be a few pivot points and a few people who, like, have really made a made a difference in particularly, are there celebrities getting involved? Heston's I've had the pleasure of getting to know for last few weeks and he gave the extraordinary candid interview talking about himself and how his ADHD has impacted his trajectory. I think he's extraordinarily important for ADHD. We, you know, we know so many people who are denied.

The opportunity for an ADHD assessment because they've managed to do something in their life, like they've managed to, like, there's a lot probably slightly wrong words, it's been twenty four hours, but like, where they've managed to get a qualification, they're keeping down the job and then then the GP will say, well, you know, you can't have ADHD because it, like, you've you've got those things. And when he was diagnosed, you know, he had three Michelin stars and his restaurant was very best on the planet. Then And when you hear about the extraordinary measures he went to to to do that, you you get a real insight into into the challenge of ADHD. Tanya And Bosley talks.

Again with absolute candor about her situation and how difficult childhood was and completely heartbreaking, in the end and looking to make a change and Adrian Charles who's been extraordinary and particularly getting to know him and his his end support writing a beautifully eloquent article in The Guardian. We've had some big companies like particularly Google jumping.

In meant a lot of other people got involved in Microsoft as well. Like like having those sort of big pivot brands, like, you know, they they have to they they have an obligation to protect their brands and and look after them. And they jumped and helped an unknown conference. Not had never happened before and got involved to make a difference. Took that risk and it was a big deal and it's made a big difference and I I covered genuinely. I can't thank them enough. I'm handing over to you. I can give you the with trepidation. One absent Don't trust me. I I I yeah. Mean, I think you know the odds of that. I absolutely do. Like this over to you.

You're on. You can see all the bags under our eyes as well, can't you? I just wanted to say thank you to you, Henry. Some of you know that I've been on the YouTube chat for the last couple of hours, sort of once everything was sorted out for the conference. Overwhelming thanks for you from the people on that chat. This wouldn't have happened without you. In fact, ADHD UK would not happen without you. The energy and the enthusiasm that you bring to this, the passion, the inspiration and the creative scariness that you bring to it about what we can do and everything else. As Henry said, twelve weeks ago we didn't have a conference, and twelve weeks ago I started volunteering with ADHD UK.

I wasn't quite anticipating that my first volunteer job would be quite as full on as this, and it has been an absolute ball. We have met some delightful people. We have established so many links and everything else for the future. I'm slightly worried about the fact Henry now has a whole year to dream up what we're going to do for the next conference and I'm slightly worried about the fact he's going to remember it's neurodiversity month in March or whatever next year and that actually we could maybe do something for that but I didn't really put an idea in his head at all. So thank you, Henry. Thank you for everything that you do for everybody with ADHD. I'm gonna cry in a minute. It's.

Been an absolute ball. Thank you all very much for coming and listening. Thank you for the chat. If anybody wants to volunteer, we would love to have some more volunteers and everything else. If you go onto our website, you've all got the links because the conference website is on there as well. Under that there's a contact us thing. If you want to volunteer, we'd really like some web designers but all volunteers are really really helpful and just contact us and you'll get a chance to have a chat with one of us about where you can help and everything.

Think that's that's about it really. Thank Well, thank you. Thank you. Like it's you like we have we have been at a twosome. Like it's been impossible to do that. You are you are an extraordinary person. Thank you. I'm just gonna finish with some quick stats, one of which I've forgotten. But we've had in the registration period, we had over fit I guess, yeah, I'll ask Christine. How many did we have register?

It was about I think just about thousand in the end. Just about 4,000 and.

Certainly we've seen that in our attendee numbers. We know that at the midpoint, we we don't get the agent to offer, this is all over. At the midpoint, we had 4,400 attendees. So we know it will be bigger than that. It's a big number for us and if you imagine that in a room it's a big deal. It's over 4,000 definitely over 4,000 registered people, over four four and a half thousand people attending because you could you could obviously attend without registering registering now to join the q and a. We've representatives from over 55 countries truly global. Every single continent is up Antarctica and across the world from you know across the world from Japan to South Africa to America, Canada, Slovakia, Bulgaria.

UK obviously and all the parts of The UK. It's just been something else and it was what we set out to do something global. So we're very very very pleased. Thank you everyone for your support. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being part of it. Thank you being looking to make this change. Thank you for any everyone who donated. Do I'm gonna do it again. I I do donate if you can. Always get involved with fundraising for the charity, go to ADHD UK. But for donations, to globaladhd.com and click that donate button. Like, you everyone for being part of this. It has been an extraordinary thing and it has been a pretty exciting twenty four hours. Yeah, that's it. Thank you very much everyone. Thank you so much.

It has been something else and it's been absolutely wonderful. I think an important moment in the change of ADHD certainly in The UK and I hope in the world and it's the first stepping stone. Well, it's a we stand on the shoulder of chance like many people have done a lot of work in there already, but this was a big step and we hope to keep doing this and keep that progress. Do help us, thank you for being part of this, for gracious your day and thank you, genuinely thank you. It's been just wonderful.