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Voice in Greenwich

Woman talking - self advocacyVoice is here to support people to speak up for themselves, to support people to be listened to, make their own choices and find out about their rights.

We :

  • run a weekly women’s group
  • run a weekly men’s group
  • offer training opportunities
  • support people to attend meetings and events about Advocacy and speaking up
  • support people to take on jobs in the Voice office

Supporting you to choose

Dino PowellListen to Dino introducing Voice and advocacy (mp3, 264kb)

 

Shirley KingfisherListen to Shirley talking about Voice too (mp3, 677kb)

 

Advocacy is:

  • Speaking up for yourself
  • Making your own choices
  • Knowing your rights
  • Standing up for your rights

Help drawingVoice is here to:

  • Support people to be listened to
  • Support people to speak up
  • Support people to choose
  • Body languageTrain volunteers to support others to speak up
  • Challenge people and services that treat people with a learning disability unfairly

Voice's phone number is 020 8853 0751

You can email Voice at vig@gcap.org.uk


Our assertiveness course

Go to our assertiveness page, or see below for our collage.

The collage

  • Below is a collage made by people on our assertiveness course. You can see a larger picture of the collage.
  • You will be able to read the collage, but will need to use scroll bars to see all of it.
  • Click on the link under the big photo when you want to come back to this page.

Voice Collage

 

The Forum @ Greenwich, Trafalgar Road, London, SE10 9EQ Registered charity 1009798

 

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