This year’s AGM was a larger affair than previous year’s event due to the launch of the organisation’s new brand and was held in the Harpur Suite at the Bedford Corn Exchange on the 18th November 2011.

Speaking at the event was Alistair Burt MP for North-East Bedfordshire who spoke of his admiration of the work that Advocacy Alliance does in the local area and also the opportunities that the government’s Big Society offers the Third Sector.

Sheila Smith was awarded the Linda Rushton Self-Advocacy Award for 2011 for all the work she has done throughout Luton as a representative at the Partnership Board Executive Group, Dunstable Hospital Learning Disability Task Group and also as a Co-Chair for the Luton Partnership Board.