London Campaign Network
Connecting our members across London
London Campaign Network
People First (Self Advocacy) was one of 16 projects to be awarded a grant from the first round of the Disability Justice Fund
You can download an easy read information sheet about the project here
A ‘London Campaign Network’ of self-advocates with learning difficulties.
The aim is to share the campaigns we are working on and to work on campaigns together over the next three years.
We are having our second meeting on:
Friday 7th March 2025
11am - 3:30pm
Venue: King's Cross Methodist Church (Opposite Kings Cross Station)
58a Birkenhead Street, London, WC1H 8BW
Here is a poster for the event here
Accessible Management Committee training for self-advocacy organisations
We are also piloting a user-led Management Committee Development Programme with our Management Committee.
We will then work with other London self-advocacy organisations to develop and improve it where needed, and then share and deliver it with them.
Strong and skilled Boards are essential to all charities, but we know from experience that it is hard to find accessible training and support in this area.
Many self-advocacy groups have closed or have been taken over and our member groups have dropped by 50% in the last 10 years. We want to work with existing self-advocacy organisations across London and support groups to establish themselves in areas where they don’t exist.
We hope that we can all share the good work we are doing and support each other with important campaigns.
Here is a general poster about the network to share and display here
Feedback from our first meeting
We had our first meeting on Friday 1st November 2024, 11am - 3:30pm.
We agreed the top three things we wanted to start working on.
- Advocacy
- Benefits
- Hate Crime
You can download the notes from our meeting here
We talked about the work we have done so far. This included:
- Contacting London groups and organisation
- Finding out what people were already working on
- Finding out what issues people felt were most important
We had a Soap Box session where individuals and groups could have 5 minutes talking about what they thought was most important and what they were doing.
We then had a workshop where we all looked at the top issues and then voted on what 3 issues we should start working on together.
Thank you to Trust for London for the funding for this project.
We want to make sure that:
- People with learning difficulties/disabilities to have a louder voice and a bigger profile
- Self-advocacy organisations to work together and influence policy
- Self-advocacy organisations to be able to manage themselves better
- Groups who are under threat of closure or changes that they don’t agree with to have support
