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Shaping our Lives works with people, especially those facing the biggest barriers, to build better more inclusive services and support.

About Inclusive Involvement

Involvement activities enable people to have a say in policies and services that affect their lives. It can mean sharing experiences of using services, of being part of a diverse community or of having an impairment or long-term health condition.

However, not everyone has an equal chance to be involved. Inclusive involvement is about positively enabling people from marginalized communities to be heard.

I want to involve users in our organisation I want to share my lived experience

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Join the inclusive involvement community

Are you interested in truly inclusive, effective involvement? Do you want to make sure everyone's voices can be heard?

We're building a community of people who are committed to inclusive involvement.

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Who We Are

Shaping Our Lives is a non-profit specialising in inclusive involvement, ensuring the voices of those facing the biggest barriers are heard. We work with people and organisations to make sure people with lived experience are listened to.

Formed as a user-led project in 1996, we now have a large membership of individuals and organisations in our inclusive involvement community.

Interested? Read more about who we are.

What We Do

We work with people, especially those facing the biggest barriers, to build better more inclusive services and support.

We work towards a society in which everyone has equal life chances and support for independent living. A society which prioritises inclusion.

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