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Welcome to this month's new member
Welcome to this month's new Affiliate Organisations
Full contact details can be found in the Directory of Affiliated Organisations at www.deafcouncil.org.uk/affila.htm . Affiliation is open to Voluntary Organisations, Public Sector Bodies and Companies that work with or want to be accessible to deaf people.
Sign, in partnership with the Mental Health Foundation, have developed a charter for the Mental Well Being of deaf people. The purpose of the charter is to raise awareness, improve services and clarify what deaf service users should expect. It is aimed at mainstream providers, whether statutory, voluntary or independent, and will benefit service users and their carers or supporters. The charter will be launched in 2005 and Sign would like your comments on it before the final draft is produced. For further details contact Wendy Kelly info@signcharity.org.uk www.signcharity.org.uk
Use of technology by deafblind people
Sense is doing a survey with Deafblind UK to find out about deafblind and Usher people's experiences, dreams and fears of using technology in their everyday lives. The results of this survey will help to get a clear picture of the technological issues facing deafblind and Usher people. The questionnaire is available online at www.sense.org.uk . If you would prefer to give information orally or in BSL, please contact Nick Southern at 020 7561 3414 (textphone), 18002 020 7561 3414 (Typetalk relay service for hearing people), or technology@sense.org.uk. The deadline for completed forms is Monday 20th December 2004.
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Deafness
Members of the APPG on Deafness will be visiting Oak Lodge School in December and the first full meeting is on 12 January and will be addressed by Stephen Carter, Chief Executive of Ofcom. Further meetings are being arranged, full details can be found on the group's website at www.appg-deafness.org.uk
The Department of Transport Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) of which Roger Hewitt is a member, have launched a website intended to address the transport needs of all disabled people using all forms of transport from door to door www.dptac.gov.uk/door-to-door
Bringing together in one website all the information that disabled people need to make informed decisions and choices. It will be updated regularly to keep apace with rapidly changing provisions in the transport fields for disabled people.
At the AGM on 2 November Ruth Myers was re-elected Chair and Paul Tomlinson was re-elected as a Trustee. We are pleased to welcome Asif Iqbal and Chris Underwood to the Board of Trustees.
Volunteering Conference
Tuesday 25th January 2005
Britannia Street Conference Centre, London.
Ruth Johnson, Director of Grant Making at Volunteering England (VE), on 'the UK Year of the Volunteer 2005' and how organisations can get involved plus an overview of the work of VE and how it can support your organisation. Roger Hewitt, Projects Manager, UK Council on Deafness on how volunteers have benefited from Opportunities for Volunteering. Sharon Tynan, Head of Marketing and Fundraising at TimeBank on how they work in partnership with charities to promote innovative ways of recruiting and caring for volunteers, including their recent campaign recruiting volunteers from ethnic minorities. Robert Parkinson, NDCS Director England. NDCS works with a range of volunteers through its local groups, peer support schemes and training programme. Using examples, Robert will cover volunteer recruitment, training and management. Bunty Levine, Trustee and Chair of the Volunteer Planning Team, Hearing Concern on their Opportunities for Volunteering Project in Bradford and how they recruit, train and retain volunteers. Shafiat Aslam, from LEMDA with examples of how their volunteers benefit from training and how they recruit volunteers with the right skills. Mark Restall, Senior Information Officer, Volunteering England on Volunteers and the Law. Mark will explain what rights volunteers have, and can be given - if organisations unwittingly create legal relationships with them. To book, contact Sylvie Say, on s.say@deafcouncil.org.uk.
Access to Buildings and Transport Conference
"Making it a reality for deaf people"
30th November 2004. Britannia Street Conference Centre, London.
Only a few places available so book now!
BSL Awareness Consortium launch website
The BSL Awareness Consortium project, funded by the DWP, is offering free BSL Awareness training to employers, service providers and in the wider community across the country. The partners involved in the project have now launched a website giving details of what is available and how to contact them to arrange the training sessions. The website has been designed by Remark! and is fully accessible in BSL - www.bslawareness.org.uk
More interpreters will be trained in Scotland thanks to a half a million pounds funding announced by Communities Minister Malcolm Chisholm. A partnership lead by SASLI will deliver a programme to increase the number of qualified interpreters, working with Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh universities to ensure there are enough qualified trainers to teach sign language. Funding of £150,000 will also be available to accredited further and higher education institutions to develop courses and materials to teach sign language.
Lilian Lawson, Director of the Scottish Council on Deafness said: "I'm delighted that the Executive has shown its firm commitment to increase the number of interpreters, which will further enhance Deaf people's social inclusion. This commitment is also a support for sign language as a linguistic minority language and a fantastic opportunity for Deaf sign language users to be at the forefront of developments taking the training of interpreters forward."
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