UK Council on Deafness

Opportunities for Volunteering Grants awarded for 2003/2004

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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