POhWER is a charity and membership organisation. They provide information, advice, support and advocacy to people who experience disability, vulnerability, distress and social exclusion. Their services are designed by service users for service users. Last year they provided direct advocacy to over 25,000 people and handled 153,000 contacts for information and advice. Over 70,000 self help materials were downloaded from the website.

POhWER is one of the largest providers of advocacy services in the UK and England’s largest provider of NHS Complaints Advocacy.