![]() ![]() Photograph: Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4 / Love Productions I’ll go for what I want’: on Bake Off series six. “She had other difficulties, too, and it made me think about what was going on for people like her during the pandemic – people who really lack support in normal times.” Largely non-verbal, she enjoyed working with her hands, and Sandro saw how therapeutic it was for her. One of the most enthusiastic bakers to sign up was an autistic girl, now aged 20, who joined with her sister. ![]() A little later he crowdfunded and secured support from Social Ark, the charity for children with special needs in east London for whom he had previously worked, and BOTS was born. “It was scary.” His solution? To set up an online baking group as a form of therapy and a way to connect. “I didn’t suffer any loss in the pandemic, but it was tough.” A stranger to anxiety until this point, he found himself thinking, “Will I make it to tomorrow?” he tells me on Zoom from Istanbul, where he is on holiday. After leaving school at 16, he worked as a shop assistant for River Island before doing voluntary work with children who had special needs.Ĭut to 2020, and the pandemic, and Sandro found himself the one who was struggling. Sandro grew up in Newham, east London, where he still lives today. One of them is Baking on the Spectrum, or BOTS, a baking course for people on the autism spectrum and their families. Not all his Instagram feeds are about his glitzy lifestyle, however. ![]()
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