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New Member
Welcome to this month's new member:
British Institute of Verbatim Reporters aims to raise qualifications, encourage and maintain training and examination facilities, promote efficient practice of Realtime and Speech to Text Reporters and Machine Shorthand. Contact Lindsay Bickers, President, BIVR, Cliffords Inn, Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1LD. Telephone 020 8967 8249 Fax 020 8907 5820 Email sec@bivr.org.uk Web www.bivr.org.uk
Affiliates
And welcome to this month's new Affiliated Organisations:
Affiliation is open to Voluntary Organisations, Public Sector Bodies and Companies that work with deaf people. Please contact us if your organisation would like to affiliate.
BSL/English Interpreter Provision Consultation
RNID, BDA and the DRC have produced a Guidance document on BSL/English Interpreting for employers, trade organisations and service providers. If you would like to comment on the draft document you have until 7th April to do so. To get a copy of the Consultation papers please contact Marije Davidson, RNID Legal & Parliamentary Team, 19-23 Featherstone Street, London, EC1Y 8SL or email marije.davidson@rnid.org.uk . There is also a short video in BSL on the BDA website at www.bda.org.uk .
Fundraising Seminar - 27th March
Sessions will cover:
Gift Aid, Payroll Giving & Share Giving
Positive Image = Negative Fundraising?
On-line Fundraising
European Funding
Regional Funding
Deaf Awareness Week Events
Monitoring & Evaluation
A few places left, contact us to book your place.
Deaf People's Access to Health Services Conference - 10th April
Places still available, contact us for details. Speakers include:
Bob McDonald, Policy Advisor at the Department of Health & Peter Hindley consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at National Deaf Services presenting the findings from the recent government consultation document "A Sign of the Times - Modernising Mental Health Services for People who are Deaf". Frances Chinemana, Access and Health Protection Project Manager at NHS Direct. Reporting on how NHS Direct have set about making their services accessible to deaf people, using the website, email, textphones and Digital TV.
Sabina Chowdry from the Deaf Parenting Project. On the provision of resources and services for Deaf and hard of hearing parents. Malika Atoussi of Newham Healthcare NHS Trust's Bi-Lingual Health Advocacy Service. And the latest news from the RNID on the modernisation of hearing aid services following the recent government announcement that £94million will be invested over the next 2 years to bring digital hearing technology to the whole of England.
Change of address
The Cued Speech Association has moved to:
9 Duke Street, Dartmouth, Devon, TQ6 9PY. Tel & Text: 01803 832784 Fax:
01803 835311
The move to a larger office will allow the Association, which provides information
about and training in Cued Speech, to increase staff hours to meet rising demand.
Opportunities for Volunteering Grants
The deadline for applications for the 2003/2004 funding period was 5th December 2002. By the deadline 21 applications had been received. The Opportunities for Volunteering Sub-Committee met on 14th January to assess the applications. The total funding requested was over £330,000. We had been advised by the Department of Health to expect the same level of funding as in previous years - £119,200. Because of the high quality of the applications we lobbied DoH for an increase in funding and we are delighted to announce that we have now been allocated £145,629. The projects that have been awarded funding are:
Jane Beech Memorial Fund, £3,000 to fund three workshops providing information to promote and safeguard health and prevent disease and illness.
Brent Deaf People's Limited, £4,850 to increase access opportunities to information, advocacy and community support for Elderly Deaf People through empowerment processes.
Deaf Access, £3,100 to provide advocacy to deaf people in all aspects of living in the community.
Hearing Concern, £8,800 to train hard of hearing and hearing people from the Asian community to become volunteer advisers to hard of hearing people in the Bradford area.
Special Communication Needs, £15,000 to train volunteers in communication tactics, a Befriending Scheme and Rendezvous Clubs.
Royal Association for Deaf People, £11,863 to enable deaf people who have a learning disability to learn about the DoH White Paper "Valuing People", to see how it affects their lives.
LINK Centre for Deafened People, £14,820 to develop a performance review procedure that can be used for volunteer Information Officers.
Cambridgeshire Deaf Association, £5,777 to provide Drop-In services in the Fenlands and Peterborough Area and Changing Views Advocacy Services for deaf people with extra disabilities.
Leicestershire Centre for Deaf People, £13,353 to enable the effective co-ordination of volunteers to help people from Peer Group Networks to improve their skills, gain confidence and autonomy, improve access to community activities and facilities and mitigate the effects of isolation on vulnerable elderly deaf people.
dDeaflinks Staffordshire, £14,979 to recruit, train and organise a group of deaf and hard of hearing volunteers to visit isolated, lonely, socially excluded deaf and hard of hearing people in their own homes or whilst an in-patient in hospital.
SIGN, £15,000 to enable Deaf people with mental health problems to volunteer at a local farm to look after the animals.
Royal National Institute for Deaf People, £20,987 to counter the isolation, fear and depression felt by deaf and hard of hearing people, particularly those who are newly diagnosed and/or elderly, and to help to restore or retain their independence and quality of life in Brighton & Hove.
Hampshire Deaf Association, £14,100 to provide befriending, mentoring and support to vulnerable and ill people of all ages with a hearing loss to reduce inequalities in health and social services.
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