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
VOX Scotland response to Scottish Government’s Human Rights Bill
Thank you very much to members who contributed to our response to the Scottish Government’s Human Rights Bill through our online and in person sessions in September. We submitted
With Us For Us – New Resources Launched
‘With Us, For Us’ is a major new partnership project run jointly by VOX Scotland and Scottish Recovery Network to ensure lived experience engagement in Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Personality
Voices of Experience Chief to step down after 15 years
Voices of Experience (VOX) Chief Wendy McAuslan has announced she is stepping down after 15 years. As Head of Scotland’s national member-led mental health organisation, Wendy has worked tirelessly
Why lived experienced voices must be at the heart of new policing mental health review
In this article, we discuss the importance of lived experienced voices in shaping a new review into policing and mental health. What is the ‘policing and mental health’
Shaping New Mental Health Standards
VOX Scotland and The Alliance have today published a new report on lived experience perspectives in shaping new mental health standards. 'Shaping New Mental Health Standards: A Lived Experience Perspective'…
Data & Information Sharing: Your Views
On Tuesday 22nd November 2022, Vox Scotland’s Development Officer Paula Fraser gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care, and Sport Committee. The Committee took evidence from a
Making Co-production Work: New Vox Resource
Voices of Experience (Vox) Scotland has today launched a new co-production resource which will support mental health professionals and service providers to implement co-productive practice. ‘Making Co-Production Work: Back
This Is Me – Richard
‘This is Me’ is a new VOX (Voices of Experience) blog series highlighting individual lived experiences of mental health problems. In this series, VOX members across Scotland share their
New Mental Illness Stigma Study Published
A first-of-its kind study has highlighted the severity of stigma and discrimination faced by people with experience of severe and enduring mental illness in Scotland. The Scottish Mental Illness
Mental Health & Wellbeing Strategy: Our Views
Read more about Voices of Experience (VOX) Scotland's consultation response to the Scottish Government's Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
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.
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Company Limited by Guarantee
No 361753
Registered Charity in Scotland
No SC040646
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VOX Scotland
Floor 2,
Moncreiff House,
69 West Nile Street,
Glasgow
G1 2QB
0141 226 9856
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We focus on the issues that matter to our members and undertake research and provide training to make sure our members views are heard. We are open and transparent and share our work with a national audience.
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