Thanks to our amazing partners and funders, we are able to reach people with learning disabilities, autistic people and people with mental ill health or other challenges across the north-east. Our funder spotlight is one of our ways of saying thank you to the organisations that help make our work possible. Garfield Weston Foundation Funding from Garfield Weston has helped us to involve people with lived experience in the design and review of our services and to increase co-p

North-east charity Your Voice Counts has won three national awards in the space of three weeks for their work helping people with learning disabilities, autism, mental illness and other challenges to speak up for their rights. The three awards provide Your Voice Counts with prize money and strategic business consultancy that the charity will use to accelerate plans for expansion. Demand for its services has grown significantly in recent years as local people struggle with iss

Connected Voice Haref Allies work together to tackle health inequalities for ethnically minoritised communities across Newcastle and Gateshead and we're proud to be part of the group. As an active member of the Haref Allies, two nominated people from our team have committed to improving our services for ethnically minoritised communities alongside supporting other Haref Allies to improve their services by sharing good practice. We’ll also be working directly with our local co

Thanks to our amazing partners and funders, we are able to reach people with learning disabilities, autistic people and people with mental ill health or other challenges across the north-east. Our funder spotlight is one of our ways of saying thank you to the organisations that help make our work possible. Sir James Knott Trust The people we support have faced extra challenges over the last two years due to the pandemic and our organisation, like so many other charities, ha

Your Voice Counts have been recognised as a 2022 Weston Charity Awards winner. The award means we will have access to a team of business experts and funding that will help us to develop our services and continue supporting vulnerable people across the region at what is a particularly challenging time. As part of the Award, we will receive ten months of strategic consultancy from a team of business experts thanks to pro bono charity Pilotlight, along with a core grant of £6,50

We have won a national award for our commitment to having a diverse and inclusive board at the UK Charity Governance Awards 2022. There were six winning charities, all taking home the grand prize of a £5,000 unrestricted grant and we were proud to be joint winners of the Board Equity, Diversity and Inclusion category along with the charity Manchester Action on Street Health. What does Board Equity, Diversity and Inclusion mean? We won this category because of the work we do