Advocacy Awareness Week 2024

Stories and blogs from Advocacy Awareness Week 2024 #AdvocacyWorks

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Advocacy works by working together

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Two individual stories of advocacy having an impact from Your Voice Counts.

Working with peer evaluators to enhance the understanding and measurement of impact

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Anna Marriott is joined by peer evaluator Ikra Shakoor to talk about understanding and measuring impact.

Capturing the impact of advocacy through telling stories

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Helen Bown shares how stories can be a powerful way of understanding impact.

Maggie's story

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Maggie describes how the advocacy support for her sister had an impact on the whole family.

Three people, three stories

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Read three stories from Advocacy Focus on how advocacy has impacted on the lives of individuals.

Eden's story

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We share Eden's story and how self-advocacy has made a huge difference to her life as a young person.

Hear my story

October 14, 2024
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Nicola Grove, founder of Open Storytellers and Storysharing, shares why small personal stories are so important in advocacy.

The power of data in advocacy: Driving better outcomes

October 14, 2024
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Kevin Mercer is an expert in using data to demonstrate impact in advocacy. Read his blog to find out why data is so important.

How do we find a solution to keep self-advocacy thriving?

October 14, 2024
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Joe Powell is chief executive of All Wales People First. In this blog he shares insights about self-advocacy and learning disabilities.

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