Advocacy Awareness Week

The second annual Advocacy Awareness Week in 2019 is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the power and impact that advocacy has on people’s lives. It also gives us time to explore and communicate some of the pressing issues facing the future of advocacy in helping people's voices be heard.

#AAW19

How to get involved:

AAW2019 Logos

You can download the #AAW19 logo files here to use to help promote your activities for Advocacy Awareness Day....
Share your stories: #AAW19

Whether you’re an advocacy organisation, an advocate or a person who has benefitted from advocacy we’d love to hear your...
Share our Campaign: #HearMyVoice

Last year we reach nearly a quarter of a million people during the week! This year we want you to...
AAW19 Share ideas and Best Practice

Every year in October, the Annual National Advocacy Conference and awards are organised by Kate Mercer Training....

#AAW19 Featured Content

Safeguarding and Advocacy

The Advocacy Project have created two videos for Advocacy Awareness Week around safeguarding and the role it plays in the Advocacy sector.

The BIG ‘A’ versus the small ‘a’

A Blog written by Lindsey Martin from Advent Advocacy concerning the importance of being an independent advocate

Introducing Advocacy Awareness Week 2019

Gail Petty, NDTi’s Advocacy Lead introduces Advocacy Awareness Week 2019

The relationship between the advocate and the professional: adversaries, collaborators or partners?

An opinion piece by Nicola and Judith from The Advocacy Project on the fine balance Advocates face when maintaining independence and challenging decision makers.

Why doesn’t advocacy lead to transformational systemic change as often as it should?

Following a recent presentation at the Centre for Public Scrutiny’s recent annual conference on Scrutiny of Health and Social Care Judith Davey, of The Advocacy Project, reflects on why advocacy is not utilised effectively to ensure that user voices are heard during changes in policies and procedures directly effecting the users themselves.

Advocacy: How can we improve outcomes from safeguarding?

Judith Davey, from The Advocacy Project, comments on the importance of prevention in safeguarding.

How the power of advocacy and user involvement together can change the system

A blog from Judith Davey of The Advocacy Project, giving a clear example of how advocacy and user involvement can make big changes to both advocacy service users and the wider population.

National Self-Advocacy Movement

My Life My Choice (MLMC) self-advocate, Ben, writes about the National Self Advocacy Movement in this easy-read Blog.