Get Your Voice Heard
Vox Scotland
We are a membership organisation run for and by our members, who all have living or lived experience of mental ill health. We represent our members’ views to Scottish Government, the NHS and others to influence mental health policy and practice, making sure that our laws and services reflect their needs and interest.
Who We Are
Voices of Experience
We work to improve mental health policy and practice in Scotland by engaging with Scottish Government consultations, producing research, and organising participatory events for members to connect, learn, and have their voices heard.
Our aims are to ensure that people with lived experience of ill mental health:
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Shape Scotland’s laws
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Influence service design and delivery
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Promote a better understanding of mental illness in wider society
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Advance the interests of people with mental health issues
Unlock Your Potential
Working together to amplify voices of lived experience.
Empower
Ensuring that people with lived experience of mental health have a voice and that it’s heard by decision-makers to help shape policy and practice.
Raise voices & listen
Because the voices of people with lived experience should be heard and listened to.
Influence change
Providing a route to create change, because people want and need positive change.
Connect
Building connections by bringing people together to create resources on issues such as co-production and safe spaces.
Vox Blog
From the Hustings: Early Reflections on Mental Health in Scotland’s 2026 Election
It’s the end of March and the 2026 Scottish Parliament election is rapidly approaching. VOX Scotland has been campaigning on our manifesto and listening to the promises from the
Vox Scotland’s Manifesto: Scottish Parliament Elections 2026
Across Scotland, people with lived experience of mental illness are facing serious challenges when they try to access support. Members tell us they wait too long, are passed between…
Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 Consultation: VOX Response
The Scottish Government plans to amend the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 to protect human rights and avoid discrimination, and has sought responses to a consultation. The…
Key findings from our lived experience research – summary paper
Since September 2025, VOX Scotland has been a member of Suicide Prevention Scotland’s Personalised Risk and Safety Management steering group. The group aims to make services safer, more person centred,…
Advocating for Collective Advocacy – Event Report
Our new joint report with the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance shares what came out of the Advocating for Collective Advocacy event held in January 2026. Bringing together collective advocacy
Reflections on meeting the Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing
It’s been a difficult summer for many of our VOX Scotland group members and for the mental health sector in general as funding promises have been broken and resources
Polypharmacy Guidance: Vox Scotland’s response to Scottish Government consultation
Polypharmacy means taking multiple medications at once and is often necessary for people with long-term conditions. In September 2025, the Scottish Government consulted on its new guidance which aims
VOX Scotland Welcomes Scottish Government’s Psychiatry Recruitment and Retention Working Group FinalReport,
VOX Scotland welcomes the publication of the Scottish Government’s Psychiatry Recruitment and Retention Working Group Final Report, released in June 2025. We are particularly encouraged that the report draws
VOX Scotland Responds to Health Committee Pre-Budget Scrutiny
VOX Scotland submitted evidence to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee’s call for views to inform their pre-budget scrutiny for 2026–27, with a particular focus on mental health
Advocacy Organisations Call on Scottish Government to Safeguard the Provision of Collective Advocacy Services across Scotland
VOX Scotland and SIAA garner sector wide support to highlight the importance of advocacy services for those with experience of mental illness Voices of Experience (VOX) Scotland and the
VOX Scotland is a national membership organisation, open to all people in Scotland with lived experience of mental health difficulties. We represent the views of our 500+ individual, group, and associate members to politicians and health professionals – making sure that Scotland’s laws and mental health services reflect their needs and interests.
Company Info
Company Limited by Guarantee
No 361753
Registered Charity in Scotland
No SC040646
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Contact Us
VOX Scotland
Floor 2,
Moncrieff House,
69 West Nile Street,
Glasgow
G1 2QB
0141 226 9856
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