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Steffan Phillips, Community & Independent Mental Health Advocate at Advocacy Support Cymru, Swansea I came to independent advocacy through being a family advocate for my autistic younger brother who also has a learning disability. I have been a Community and Independent Mental Health Advocate for two years now, and during that time, I don’t often…

Chris Lerwell, IMCA at Advocacy Support Cymru, Cardiff Advocacy Awareness Week  1 – 7 November The first week of November marks Advocacy Awareness Week. ASC is raising awareness of the vital role advocacy plays in empowering people with mental health illnesses to speak out. Chris Lerwell is a Independent Mental Capacity Advocate at ASC.  Here, he…

Demi Barnard, CMHA at Advocacy Support Cymru, Cardiff Advocacy Awareness Week  1 – 7 November The first week of November marks Advocacy Awareness Week. ASC are the largest provider of Independent Mental Health Advocacy in South Wales and this week, we hope to raise awareness of the vital role advocacy plays in empowering people with…

Advocacy Support Cymru has launched a Crowdfunder appeal to raise vital funds to continue and extend our suicide intervention training programme in Wales.

This #worldmentalhealthday we are asking for your support in funding our vital mental health advocacy services in South Wales, as well as our suicide prevention and intervention training. The vital role that advocacy plays in supporting the return to health of those experiencing mental health issues cannot be underestimated. ASC provides Mental Health, Mental Capacity…

This World Suicide Prevention Day, we are raising awareness of our training programmes that could be vital in saving a life.

Advocacy Support Cymru is operating as normal. If you would like to make a referral, please contact 029 2054 0444.

We are entering our fourth affected month since March 2020 of living and working amidst Coronavirus (COVID-19) and we wanted to provide you with a further update on our Advocacy service provision.

We are entering an unprecedented time amidst this Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, and as a result we wanted to provide an update on our Advocacy service provision.

Update (from November 2024): We no longer accept crisp packets and wrappers. TerraCycle closed the scheme. However we do accept empty Pringles tubes and low-density polyethylene (LDPE4) plastic bread bags. 4 identifies the recycling code. (With thanks to the gentleman who visited ASC and prompted this further update) Advocacy Support Cymru is delighted to continue…