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Health knowledge should be universal.
Volunteer, donate, or partner — there is a meaningful role for you here.
Ascent runs on the commitment of people who believe that health knowledge should be universal — not gated by language, culture or the accident of where you grew up. Whether you have professional skills to offer, time to give as a volunteer, or resources to contribute as a funder or partner, there is a meaningful role for you here.
We work hard to make sure that involvement with Ascent is straightforward, well-supported and genuinely worth your time — because we know that the families we serve deserve partners who show up, and show up well.
Our advocate training programme is accredited and provides real skills you can use far beyond our work together. Our partnership approach is collaborative, not transactional. Whatever you bring — language skills, clinical expertise, lived experience, professional capacity, or simply a pound a week — you will find a home here.
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Advocate training cohort, spring 2024
Next cohort opens
September 2024
Applications for our next Community Health Advocates cohort open in September. Fluency in a community language required.
If you are a fluent speaker of Urdu, Punjabi, Cantonese, Mandarin, Arabic or another community language and want to put that gift to work, our Health Advocates Programme offers accredited training and a structured support network. Applications for our next cohort open in September.
Apply to volunteerEvery pound donated to Ascent directly funds community health sessions, advocate training and the plain-language resources we produce in multiple languages. Donations of any size are welcomed; a standing gift of £10 per month funds one family's full year of advocate support.
Make a donationWe work with GP practices, NHS health improvement teams, local authorities, faith communities and grant-making trusts to extend our reach and deepen our impact. If your organisation serves overlapping communities or holds resources we could share, we would love to explore what working together might look like.
Explore a partnershipOur advocates give their time because they understand — from the inside — what it means to navigate a system that wasn't designed with you in mind. Many have been there themselves: the appointment where the words didn't land, the letter that made no sense, the feeling of nodding along when you didn't understand.
When you train as an Ascent advocate, you join a network of more than forty people who have turned their own experience into something that genuinely helps others. Training is twelve hours over three sessions. Support is ongoing. The work is meaningful.
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Advocate in action