News (Advocacy)

This year's 5th annual Advocacy Awareness Week (#AAW22) takes place from 7th -11th November 2022.

Talking to Gail Petty and Kate Mercer about the new Advocacy Training Hub and how to get involved in this year’s Advocacy Awards, Advocacy Conference and Advocacy Awareness Week

The Henry Smith Charity, a grant-making trust, is launching a new grants programme to support advocacy for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

Advocates play an often vital role within safeguarding adults; recognising and raising safeguarding concerns, supporting individuals through safeguarding processes, addressing systemic issues and feeding into Safeguarding Adults Boards.

In this blog post, The Advonet Group describe the power of using an advocacy approach in partnership to lead to local change, using the example of a local user-led service focused on one group that experienced clear inequalities.

For us the power of partnership means equality. It means respect and support. And there is no better example of this power in action than The Cumbria Learning Disability Autism Partnership Board, of which People First, some of our members and one of our Trustees, are proud to be a part.

Advocacy organisations have started working together in new ways, as this collaborative blog explains.

Empowerment can be defined as processes applied by others that facilitate the capacity of other individuals or groups to exercise personal autonomy of decision making and action. Approaches to empowerment can take lots of forms...

Welcome to Advocacy Awareness Week 2020!! It’s time for our third annual advocacy awareness week and this year, perhaps more than ever, it feels vital to be sharing and telling our stories about all that...

Working in partnership with minoritised communities doesn’t just miraculously happen, it requires skillful building of trust and a demonstration of being an ally, before an organisation will feel that they can invest time in working...