CAPOLD stands for ‘Citizen Advocacy for People of Oxfordshire with Learning Disabilities’. We provide advocacy for people with learning disabilities.

This means supporting people to speak up for themselves, make decisions, get information, ask questions and many other things.
It does not mean that we tell the person what would be best for them, make decisions for them or encourage them to go along with what others are telling them.

Download the CAPOLD leaflet for more information here

CAPOLD will provide an advocate to work one-to-one with anyone who has a learning disability on issues that may be short or long term. Our advocates are all trained, checked, supervised and supported. Most are volunteers.

There is no formal referral process or anyone in particular who needs to make the referral, just a phone call or email to the scheme will do!
It helps if the person being referred has been spoken to about having an advocate but if not, the scheme coordinator will do her best to explain what an advocate can do and find out if the referred person would like the help of an advocate.

CAPOLD provides a community based service and also runs an on-site hospital -based service for people with learning disabilities who are detained in Oxfordshire. This service ensures the regular presence of an advocate to support people who are living at John Sharich House, STAT, the Step Down unit and Evenlode ward.

Contact CAPOLD:

For the COMMUNITY BASED SERVICE:

TELEPHONE: 01865 741293

EMAIL: capoldc@oadg.org.uk

For the HOSPITAL BASED SERVICE:

TELEPHONE: 1865 744702

EMAIL: capoldh@oadg.org.uk

For both, write to:
Barton Neighbourhood Centre,
Underhill Circus,
Headington,
Oxford
OX3 9ZN
Further information

Some examples of CAPOLD case studies

Non-instructed advocacy