One Voice - for disabled people
About Us
One Voice has been around for more than 10 years.
We get funding to help us with our work from Wolverhampton City Council
We are based in Regent House, opposite the Central Baths - see map below
We are an organisation run by disabled people, offering help advice and support to other disabled people as well as offering information, training, consultation and partnership working to other organisations on issues to do with disabled citizen's lives.
One Voice is run in line with the social model of disability - we believe that people like us have impairments, what disables us is an inaccessible environment or disabling attitudes.
The work of One Voice falls into 3 broad categories,
- services to disabled individuals including counselling, advocacy/representation, advice and information. .
- services for and with groups of disabled people and others, including training, talks, access work etc
- Consultation services to and partnership working with other organisations.
Disabled people from Wolverhampton and the surrounding areas can get the following free services from One Voice:
a two-monthly Newsletter (print, disk, email or tape)
Fact Sheets on : disability benefits, employment, the Disability Discrimination Act, equipment, running meetings, leisure, etc (print, tape, cd-rom, floppy disk or Braille)
Advocacy/Representation Services - we can represent you in Court, Tribunals, or when you deal with the local council, health authority etc - all this work is confidential.
Individual counselling and advice (confidential)
Research - on employment, transport, access, etc
Training - One Voice has provided training for disabled people in Disability Benefits, Access Audits, Stress and Anxiety Management, Disability Discrimination Act, running campaigns and Assisting wheelchair users.
Transport - due to member demand we set up a transport forum and now represent disabled people on the Transport Users Forum.
We are able to do these things because we get funding from Wolverhampton City Council's Community Initiatives Fund.
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More about us
Constitution
The one voice constitution was written by disabled citizens, with help from Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council.
Disabled people have the chance to put forward amendments to the constitution each year at the Annual General Meeting.You can download a copy of the constitution in rtf format (can be read in microsoft word or works, and star office here:
Service Agreement
One Voice has an annual service level agreement(SLA) with the Council, to provide certain services in return for funding. The details on how we performed are in our SLA report, which you can download here:
SLA2006.rtf
SLA2007.rtf
SLA2008
SLA2009
Contact Us
You can contact One Voice in these ways:
write to:
One Voice, Regent House, Bath Avenue, Wolverhampton, WV1 4EG
Telephone:
(01902) 810016
Email:
We promise to reply to all people from Wolverhampton and the surrounding areas.