About
Our Mission
We don’t claim to have all the answers. Instead, we create clear, ADHD-friendly resources that bring together different perspectives. Our aim is to give you the tools to understand ADHD on your own terms. We want you to feel confident talking about it, in daily life, at work, or in education.
While our focus is ADHD, we also encourage better conversations around neurodiversity more broadly. Everything we make avoids stereotypes and overcomplication, so people feel more confident navigating these topics.
Our approach
Our work is shaped by lived experience and grounded in everyday reality, backed by over 20 years of frontline experience across education, youth work, care, and support services.
We don’t offer one-to-one advice or formal training. Instead, we give you a map and compass, practical tools and guidance you can use to find your own way.
We believe in progress over perfection, honesty over performance, and inclusion that begins with listening, not checklists.
Who We Work With
Our work is first and foremost for adults with ADHD. It’s also for the people alongside them, family, friends, colleagues, and professional, anyone who wants to create environments where different ways of thinking and communicating are embraced.
Instead of one-size-fits-all answers, we focus on helping you ask better questions, use better language, and open up space for people to be themselves.
Why Pirates?
Pirates succeeded not through size or strength, but because they were diverse and fair. While the great navies were rigid and hierarchical, pirate crews shared power, split pay equally, and moved quickly when things changed.
That’s the spirit we bring to our work on ADHD: challenging what doesn’t work, and creating better ways forward, together.
Meet the Team
Robert Walmsley
Founder & Director
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Latest Articles
Movement and ADHD: Rebuilding Trust in Your Body One Step at a Time
When it comes to ADHD, movement is often treated like a “should” - something you’re meant to force your way into for the sake of productivity, mood, or health. But for many of us, especially those navigating burnout or executive function challenges, the real challenge...
Chasing Dopamine and Connection: What My Teenage Self Needed You to Know
By Brenda Keirnan, in collaboration with ADHD Pirates This piece shares part of my lived experience being autistic with ADHD and as an Inclusion Advisory Teacher who now supports schools across Derbyshire. I wrote it for the many educators who are doing their best,...
Eating for ADHD: Meal Planning, Supplements, and Managing Impulsive Eating
This article is Part 2 of our ADHD and nutrition series with Dana Chapman. In Part 1, we explored how diet, hydration, and gut health can affect ADHD symptoms. Here in Part 2, we turn to practical strategies — including meal planning ideas, the role of supplements,...