Its training courses are tailored around fairly common struggles including finance, confidence, food difficulties, sensory issues and dysregulation, feelings of being overwhelmed and social anxiety.
The enterprise is currently running a pilot programme for 18-25 year olds, works with charities and companies offering work experience for disabled teenagers and young adults, and offers a retail space for self-employed people across the North-East.
Support groups for both neurodiverse children and their parents are also held by the enterprise, whose inspirational work has been branded as life changing by users.
Picking up the award were Joanne Stanton and Ellie Pearson.
Joanne said: “Celebrate Difference was started five years ago with about half a dozen staff – we now have 23 people in our team.
“We support our community in any way we can, and we’re very lucky that our café gets a lot of tips which we hand out to other Consett charities. Whoever needs it, we try and help the community.
Ellie added: “Working in our community is amazing. Our workforce is mostly neurodivergent too. Being able to support staff as well as our community makes you get out of bed in the morning.”