Advocacy Awareness Week

Advocacy Awareness Week is from 13-17 October 2025. Each year it brings the advocacy sector together to highlight a different theme. This year we celebrate 'why advocacy'. #AAW25 #AdvocacyWorks #SelfAdvocacyWorks

How to get involved:

Advocacy Awareness Week, Theme, Logos and Resources 2025

Download logos and resources to help share your advocacy stories and raise awareness across your organisation and community.

Introducing Advocacy Awareness Week 2021

#AAW21 - Join the conversation. This week is the 4th annual Advocacy Awareness Week.

The Advocacy Sector – The Forgotten Cog of the Pandemic?

Advocacy Focus talk about supporting advocates to continue to do amazing work

Upholding Rights & Safety in Life Changing Decisions

Thoughts from Cal, an Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) from Advocacy Support Cymru

Let it evolve … Collaborate and Coproduce

Amanda Nally from the Community Led Support Programme talks about how to hear from people who don’t often have a voice.

Video: Confidentiality in Advocacy

Video from n|compass to explain how confidentiality works for #AdvocacyinAction "We will check what we do for you, and ask you what you think"

NDTi Podcast | Talking Inclusion Ep.9

In this special episode for advocacy awareness week, Gail Petty is in conversation with Jacqui Jobson on Equity and Diversity within the advocacy community.

Helping Bill

Bill is Deaf and communicates with British Sign language. His wife is also deaf and partially blind. They live independently in their own home with some support from the Deaf Link Worker.

Advocacy, Accessibility, Equity & Diversity

Video from Assist on Advocacy, Accessibility, Equity & Diversity

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Supporting Abdul

Case Study from n|compass on supporting Abdul to voice his wishes whilst in hospital.

Video Case Study

N|Compass give a simple example case study showing how #AdvocacyinAction supported a lady with her Care Act Assessment

Health and Social Care Advocacy project for Refugees and asylum seekers

Lindsay from People First Independent Advocacy - which celebrates its 30th birthday this year - talks about their Health and Social Care Advocacy project.

The value of the experience in being person-led

As a person-led organisation, VITAL has been supporting communities in Bradford for over 30 years. These are their thoughts on why being Person-Led is so important in Advocacy: