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The second Bromley Sparks sponsored walk will be on Sunday 20 May, everyone is welcome.
The first walk was a great success and the fundraising team is hoping to do even better this time, raising funds for Sparks Place in Community House.
If you would like to join us, please first register by phoning the Bromley Sparks office on 020 8315 2508, emailing sparks@advocacyforall.org.uk or visiting Sparks Place. You can see the full details and get a sponsor form by clicking on the picture.
If you do not want to do the walk but would like to contribute, please contact us or go to our fundraising page.
Thanks to the Sovereign of the Seas pub in Petts Wood for their support and to Eden Springs for supplying us with free bottled water on the day.
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We are delighted to announce that Kent County Council has awarded Advocacy for All the contract for advocacy for people with a learning disability in Kent from 1 April 2012.
We look forward to developing Advocacy for All in this new area and supporting more people to have choice and control over their lives.
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We will work hard with VoiceAbility, who have got the contract now, to make sure that we make the transition of the service as easy as we can |
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We do not want people to be worried. If they already have an advocate we will finish helping them if they are funded by Kent. We want to listen to what people have to say |
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When we start we will have easy read information for everyone to tell them about how we will work in Kent |
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We will send out newsletters and bulletins to tell you what we are doing |
The Advocate 4 Health Steering Group has people with a learning disability from Bexley, Bromley, Croydon,
Greenwich, Sutton and Wandsworth.
The group wanted to do some work together and one of their ideas was to talk to doctors about learning disability.
They wrote this report about their experiences with their doctors. It is for doctors and other people who work in health as well as people with a learning disability.
Advocacy for All is working with
the Burgess Autistic Trust on a pilot project which aims
to inform a study into Autism and ageing led
by The National Autistic Society (NAS), the
UK's leading charity for people affected by Autism.
Advocacy for All is training volunteers to provide one-to-one Autism specific advocacy to anyone aged over 40 and living in the London boroughs of Bexley and Bromley.
If you would like to volunteer as an advocate for a person with Autism please visit our Volunteering page for more details and an application form.
This project is funded by the Inge Wakehurst Trust.
The members of Bromley Sparks have a meeting every month called independent living.
Recently they talked about how safe they feel in Bromley borough. They talked about safety in the area and then wrote this report. Please click on the picture to see the report.
In February 2012, Members of our Bromley Speaking Up Group group met with managers to talk about supported living.
Please click on the picture to see a report about the meeting.
Our Speaking Up in School group members wrote a report about the Learning Disability Partnership Board.
Thank you to everybody who attended our 13th AGM on 15 November.
Company members: Please click to download the minutes of the adjourned formal company AGM.
Thank you to everyone who sponsored us or came along to support our Swimathon on 11 October, and a special thank you to the staff, people with learning difficulties, volunteers and supporters who swam to raise much needed money for Advocacy for All. The total raised was over £1500.
Thank you to Parkwood Leisure for giving us the pool free and for all their help and support on the evening.
Volunteers, staff and trustees attended our BIG meeting on 5 October, to talk about the Advocacy for All, where we are and how we can improve the it.
The ideas and suggestions that came out of the meeting have been added to our action plan.
Once again Bromley band The Sticklebacks performed in aid of Bromley Sparks.
They were supported by The Rubber Band.
Over £650 was raised and we are very grateful to the Sticklebacks who give their time voluntarily to support Bromley Sparks abd to everybody who bought tickets and to the HG Wells Centre committee for their support.
Bromley Lions Quiz Night for Bromley Sparks raised £516 for Bromley Sparks on 8 September.
Thank you to everybody who attended, to Bromley Lions for organising and to Sundridge Park Working Mens Club who let us use one of their rooms free of charge.
Bromley Sparks helped Bromley Football Club launch 'Choosing Activity'.
'Choosing Activity' is an interactive sports and active lifestyle guide for people with a learning disability in Bromley, which has been put together thanks to £10,000 of Big Lottery funding. The guide aims to educate, engage and encourage people with a disability when it comes to leading a healthy lifestyle and includes a leisure directory for everyone with a disability living in the Bromley area.
The content was translated into easy read by members of Bromley Sparks, one of Advocacy for All's self advocacy groups. More...
On May 25 we held an open day to launch Advocacy for All, the new name for Bexley and Bromley Advocacy. The new name was officially launched by the Mayor of Bexley, Councillor Ray Sams.
Please click on the picture to see our report about the open day.
Our self advocacy projects joined together at the Bromley Sparks AGM to launch Speaking Up Together, a bigger voice for people with a learning difficulty.
Children in Need funded our Young People's Advocacy project for another 3 years.
This means more young people with a learning disability will be able to make choices about what they do now and in the future.
We were very pleased to announce that James Cleverly, who is the London assembly member for Bexley and Bromley, agreed to be our patron. James has been a supporter of our work for a while, you can see what he says about us on his blog.
Our Annual General Meeting and celebration was held on 16 November 2010.
The event was a celebration of all of Advocacy for All's work over the past year, and a way of publicly thanking the volunteers, staff and friends who contribute to our success.
Please contact us if you would like to see any of the AGM papers.
Bromley band and local legends The Sticklebacks performed at the HG Wells Centre, Bromley. They were supported by The Rubber Band and Giving Away A Mile.
The concert was a benefit for Bromley Sparks, one of Advocacy for All's self advocacy groups.
Our thanks to all 3 bands, and to everyone who came along to support us.
The GO4IT pilot project was launched by our Advocate 4 Health project, commissioned by Bromley Staying Healthy Partnership. The aim of the project was to engage people with a learning disability, who fell outside of the Fair Access to Care criteria, in exercise.
GO4IT project report
The Advocate 4 Health project launched a DVD called "Staying Healthy" at the Brixton Ritzy Cinema. The DVD was made by adults with a learning difficulty.
Advocate 4 Health is run by Bexley and Bromley Advocacy and is funded by London Councils until 2012. It covers the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Croydon, Sutton and Wandsworth. The DVD work was funded by the Big Lottery.
Members with a learning difficulty took on all roles of production from research, to camera, to the final editing.
James Cleverly, London Assembly member for Bexley and Bromley, invited members of Advocacy for All's Speaking Up Groups to attend Mayor's Question Time at City Hall. Members found it very interesting and were particularly interested in questions about transport for disabled people and recycling. James met with the group after the meeting.
Plan for the Future
Speaking Up Together report
Advocacy Charter
Advocacy for All newsletter
Speaking Up (self advocacy) groups newsletter
Partnership board schools report
Advocacy for All Annual report for 2010 - 2011
Young Advisers Summer Projects report
Bromley PCT health report designed by Bromley Sparks easy read group