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Other things about BAS you might want to know......
BAS was:
- Established in 1999 following a National Lottery Award given to
Basingstoke Voluntary Services in 1997
- The First, independent, advocacy provider in the
north of Hampshire. Now, like then, BAS does nothing but advocate
on behalf of individuals.
BAS is:
- A Registered Charity.
- An Unincorporated Association
- A specialist provider of Mental Health Advocacy
- A Member of HARG (Hampshire Advocacy Reference Group)
- A Member of Basingstoke Voluntary Services
- A Member of North Hants Mental Health Forum
- A Member of CA Coalition of Citizen Advocacy
- A provider, via HARG, of IMCA (Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy)
- Subject to regular reviews by its funders
- A Member of North Hampshire Mental Health Locality Implementation Team
(this is the team that can influence development of Mental Health Services in North Hants)
- Properly insured
- Developing (see News )
- Supportive of new initiatives including
- The Development, with Face Us (a department of Basingstoke Voluntary Services),
of advocacy for deaf people living in Hampshire
- Higher Ground (a group of people who, having experienced mental
ill-health, wish to support others who are struggling)
- Camrose Resource Centre. This new venture, managed by Trinity,
aims to prevent homelessness, social isolation, and the descent into despair.
Please Contact BAS for latest details about these three, new, initiatives.
- Funded by Hampshire Primary Care Trust and Hampshire County Council
- Constitutionally, and managerially, independent of its funders. BAS thanks
personnel of Hants PCT and Hants County Council for their continued support and
understanding of the ethos of BAS, and its clients, in times of perpetual change.
BAS remains, first and foremost:
- Committed to promoting the wishes and needs of those people who are,
still too often, hidden, forgotten, or ignored. BAS seeks the input
of all those who might wish to further its constitutional goals.
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