United Voices – Advocacy for people with learning disabilities

United Voices is a charity that is led by its members.  They are all people with learning difficulties who live in East Berkshire. We provide independent advocacy services to members and others, throughout East Berkshire by the provision of an advocacy service that empowers and enables them to make independent decisions that improve the quality of their lives. In addition to the member led services, United Voices also provides a Citizen’s Advocacy service. in which the trained  advocate develops a one to one relationship with a client in order to resolve a particular issue or problem.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to become an advocacy service of first choice for people with learning difficulties in East Berkshire and to be instrumental in empowering them to use self and peer advocacy to promote their independence.

HOW ARE WE ORGANISED

We have 3 major groups in Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Bracknell where members learn to speak up for themselves and their peers. Each group has a full-time development leader to assist the members to meet their objectives and to provide additional advocacy services.

WHERE ARE WE

United Voices has small offices in Slough and in Bracknell but members, staff and volunteers work throughout the local areas of East Berkshire.  We are actively recruiting and training volunteers so that we can extend the service to meet more of the needs of the community.