Service User Group
- We are the Advocacy Matters (Wales) User Group
- Advocacy Matters (Wales) is important to us.
- We have all used Advocacy Matters (Wales) services.
- It has helped us in different ways.
- We want to make sure that it keeps on helping people like us.
What do we do?
We work with Advocacy Matters (Wales) to help make it easy for people with learning disabilities to use their services.
We helped them to write a Taking Part Policy.
We have a say in what AMW does every year. This year we organised their Annual General Meeting (AGM).
We give Advocacy Matters (Wales) ideas about what people with learning disabilities want from their service.
We have a Taking Part Worker called Jo who helps us to work as a group. We are very important to Advocacy Matters (Wales).
We were presented with certificates at the AGM this year because they value our hard work and our ideas.
What we have been doing this month
There are always lots of fun and interesting things to do when you’re a member of the Service User Group.
This February we will have a group meeting.
We are doing a training course learning how to draw pictures that give people information.
We are also working on the next edition of our newsletter.
We will be very busy but it will be good fun!
Paula thinks its good to be a member of the Service User Group because…
"I like doing things and learning things.”
“I like going to the meetings. We made pictures to go on the meeting room walls. Looking at nice pictures made everyone feel friendly and happy.”
“I like doing the newsletter and going on the computer during our meetings.”
“I feel part of a team.”
