search the web search Your Voice

YOUR VOICE

 
home -> about

Your Voice is a magazine for mental health service users, carers and professionals.

Registered Charity Number: 1113874

ISSN 1464–696X

About this site

This website was developed by the Your Voice team and Piecrust Design.

Disclaimer

The views expressed in Your Voice are those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily represent those of the Editorial Team. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, we cannot be held responsible for alterations which occur during the publication process.

Articles are the copyright of Your Voice and individual contributors. In principle we are happy for articles to be reprinted in other publications provided that Your Voice is acknowledged. We would be grateful if anyone wishing to do so contact us so that we can obtain the writer's permission.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Sheffield health community who have sponsored the magazine through the Local Development Plan (LDP), as part of the National Service Framework for Mental Health objectives for group advocacy and information sharing.

About Your Voice

the history of Your Voice

Your Voice has been produced since 1997 and has been well received by users, carers and professionals. Circulation has grown from about 1000 to over 3000, with new requests for the magazine still arriving.

office

The magazine has "told it like it is" from the user and carer perspective, but without exaggeration. Professionals have also been able to voice their concerns. This balanced view is one that has been valued by the whole community.

The magazine has always been free and Your Voice feels this is important to keep service users and carers involved. A website has been developed with the further aims of reducing isolation for users and carers. It is hoped that this will enable Your Voice to interact with more people.

In the future, Your Voice hopes to broaden the scope for user/carer involvement in the production and management of the magazine and further develop links with statutory and other services.

our aims

The aims of the Your Voice organisation are to produce a magazine which:

Friends of Your Voice

The following people have agreed to become Friends of the magazine, supporting our aims and agreeing with its objectives:

Clive Betts, MP for Sheffield Attercliffe;

Rt Hon David Blunkett, MP for Sheffield Brightside;

Rt Hon Richard Caborn, MP for Sheffield Central;

Nick Clegg, MP for Sheffield Hallam;

Meredydd Hughes, Chief Constable, South Yorkshire Police;

Prof F.A. Jenner, Professor of Psychiatry (retired), University of Sheffield;

Meg Munn, MP for Sheffield Heeley;

Tony Pedder, Chairman, Sheffield PCT;

Kathryn Riddle, Chairman, South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority;

Cllr Mick Rooney, Cabinet Member for Social Services, Sheffield City Council;

Angela C. Smith, MP for Sheffield Hillsborough;

David Stone, Chairman, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

Alan Walker, Chairman, Sheffield Care Trust;

Nick Warren, Chief Executive, Voluntary Action Sheffield;

Cllr Jan Wilson, Leader of Sheffield City Council.