User Voice

🎉 We’re proud to announce that User Voice has been named one of the UK’s Top 100 Social Enterprises in the 2025 NatWest SE100 Index! #SE100 #SocialImpact #thankyou #livedexperience @PioneersPost @SocComCap

Join us at @uservoiceorg as our new Communications & Fundraising Coordinator 💬💰 Help us amplify the voices of people in the criminal justice system and secure vital support for our work. Apply now: uservoice.org/work-with-us/c… #CharityJobs #LivedExperience #CommsJobs #Fundraising

Our User Voice Open Space event at HMP Peterborough women’s estate brought together staff and residents to explore how we can make the prison a better place to live and work. Watch the full video here: youtube.com/shorts/FXuRg9X…

Our guide on how peer research can be truly co-created, fair, transparent, and have maximum impact. Read the full manifesto here: shorturl.at/i7AtT #livedexperience #peerresearch #research #charity #fairness

Our Head of Policy, Communications & Impact @seanjca is presenting today at @N8PRP research partnership conference on Neurodiversity in the criminal justice system sharing the #livedexperience of people from early life to the justice sector

“We must get away from the idea that the only response to crime is custody” @DavidGauke today at the @Perrielectures speaking about sentencing reform

We very much welcome David Gauke’s Sentencing Review - tackling the drivers of crime are key to reducing reoffending. Our full response here: shorturl.at/gmgxI #sentencingreview #voluntarysector #criminaljustice #livedexperience

Fractured and broken people must be our collective responsibility. Our ongoing research speaking to hundreds of people in prisons and probation indicates a major lack of support for and awareness about the impacts of PTSD. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

As a Friend of the @weareNWJC we are in full support of their collective call to the government for sustainable, long-term funding for women’s centres and specialist services. wearenwjc.org.uk/nwjcwbgbriefin…

'I saw excellent leadership skills in action, true equity, collective problem-solving, and mutual respect across diverse and intersectional groups- Why people in prison need more carrots and fewer sticks” Read our CEO's recent blog. #livedexperience #justicesector #leadership

Our panel in the 'Fostering lived experience in research' workshop at the @CJA Research Symposium. Great to be in the room with likeminded people who all advocate for meaningful involvement of people with lived experience @gillybuck @LineLerche Martin Celosse-Andersen

Today our Lead Research Manager Jenni Berlin will be taking part in a workshop on fostering lived experience in research with @cjalliance

Find out what we are doing in HMP Peterborough Prison to improve the prison environment through bringing two sets of leaders together, our User Voice Prison Council members and senior staff who run the prison, to co-create effective solutions - youtu.be/o546_Bsjppk

Join our Lead Research Manager, Jenni Berlin on Thursday, 8 May at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School for the Criminal Justice Alliance research symposium. Jenni will be leading a workshop dedicated to hashtag#livedexperience in hashtag#research.

Our #justicesystem is broken; we’re calling for a system that is genuinely rehabilitative and focused on tackling the root causes of crime. Find out how we are at the forefront of making this happen, our new strategy is here: shorturl.at/Rdx2I

We’re calling for a #justicesystem that ensures that those caught up in it are accountable, able to repair harm and can productively contribute to their communities. Find out how we are at the forefront of making this happen, our new strategy is here: shorturl.at/Rdx2I

Our #justicesystem is broken; we’re calling for a system that is genuinely rehabilitative and focused on tackling the root causes of crime. Find out how we are at the forefront of making this happen: shorturl.at/Rdx2I

This afternoon User Voice will be launching our new strategy as well as hosting an in conversation on the topic: ‘People in prison are victims too.’ We will be starting at 4:15pm via Microsoft Teams. You can sign up to join here: shorturl.at/tpjE2

We welcome this report on the urgent need to tackle the stark racial disparities in violence affecting children and young people, and support their call for urgent government action to address these disparities in the justice system.

As part of the @HMIProbation report on unpaid work we were commissioned to ask people on probation how it could be improved to ensure more effective rehabilitation. We were delighted to take part in the report launch event. Which you can watch here: shorturl.at/FxWeG