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VOCAL ADVOCACY

Supporting people with learning difficulties to "Speak Up"


Vocal Advocacy can help you to talk to others about ...

friends and relationships

feelings

health

work

transport

housing

learning

money and benefits

safety

Opportunities to get involved

  Volunteer as an advocate:

Advocate  If you have a few hours free regularly and would like to be an advocate, we will train you and provide support. We are looking for volunteer advocates in Teignbridge, South Hams, West Devon and Torbay areas.








  Help us raise money:

Charity  We are currently looking for someone with fundraising-skills and experience in writing funding application bids, asking people for money, organising events.









  Promote our organisation:

Promote  We are currently looking for someone to help promote Vocal across our operational area. Ideally this will be someone with ideas and enthusiasm to help Vocal improve it’s visibility and a willingness to work with and motivate people with learning disabilities within the ‘Marketing Team’








  Become a member of Vocal:

Join  Attend our quarterly meetings meet our advocates, other members and service users, learn about what we do. We are currently looking for someone to enable people with learning disabilities to fully participate in all of Vocal’s activities, including management and delivering advocacy.Ideally this person will have experience and belief in developing service users to be full participants and leaders as well as patience, imagination and a willingness to learn new techniques and strategies to enable individual participation.








  Become a friend of Vocal:

friends  We can give you posters and leaflets to display, or one of our members will come and talk to your organisation/group/club. You can also make a contribution to our funds and attend an introduction to advocacy event









easy read  You can support Vocal Advocacy by using Easy Search as your search engine. You can make it your home page or just bookmark it and use it as often as possible, knowing that you are helping Vocal with every click.