Guest blog: Ruth, what advocacy means to me as a young person
Ruth is a young person with lived experience of using formal and informal advocacy to get through a number of challenging situations in their life.
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How advocate Toby uses human rights in his work
Toby has been an independent advocate sine 2018 and currently works with Voiceability. Read his story.
Guest blog: Robert, what advocacy means to me as a young person
Robert, a young person, explained to us why advocacy is important and why other young people should be more aware.
How can advocates use human rights to help get your voice heard?
In this short film Katrin McEntee, Senior Human Rights Officer at the British Institute of Human Rights and former advocate, tells us how her advocacy work involved the Human Rights Act.
Blog: The importance of human rights in independent advocacy
Welcome to Advocacy Awareness Week 2022. This is our 5th year of spending a week celebrating and raising awareness about independent advocacy and this year our focus is on advocacy and human rights.
Influencing advocacy through story telling
Kate Mercer, NDTi associate and founder of Blackbelt Advocacy, describes how story telling can demonstrate impact in advocacy.
How do we find a solution to keep self-advocacy thriving?
Joe Powell is chief executive of All Wales People First. In this blog to mark Advocacy Awareness Week 2024, he shares insights about self-advocacy and learning disabilities.
The power of data in advocacy: Driving better outcomes
Kevin Mercer is an expert in using data to demonstrate impact in advocacy. Read his blog to find out why data is so important.
Hear my story
To celebrate Advocacy Awareness Week 2024, this blog from Nicola Grove, founder of Open Storytellers and Storysharing, explains why small personal stories are some important in advocacy.
Eden's story
For Advocacy Awareness Week, we share Eden's story and how self-advocacy has made a huge difference to her life.