The charity was set up following the sudden closure of Bromham Hospital in Bedfordshire in 1993. Many residents with learning disabilities lost all support and structured help for their needs almost overnight.

Thankfully, a group of individuals identified this gaping need and founded Advocacy Alliance, an independent charity that would pick up the pieces and would go on to tend to the needs of a number of former Bromham Hospital residents through its invaluable personal advocacy service. Initially aimed at vulnerable people with learning disabilities, the newly-established Advocacy Alliance envisaged a world where every vulnerable adult would be treated with the same consideration and respect as everyone else. This belief continues to play a central role in Advocacy Alliance’s ethos to the present day.   

Today, Advocacy Alliance supports an even wider range of people, offering its services to anyone who feels they need help resolving an issue. The issues which the organisation deals with vary greatly from one another. Along with its original specialist area of learning disabilities, the charity also helps people with physical disabilities and mental health issues, drug and alcohol abuse problems and those who have experienced homelessness and domestic violence, to name but a few. The charity also aims to reach a wide spectrum of the local population, including vulnerable people, individuals from BME communities and older people.