UK Council on Deafness

Opportunities for Volunteering Grants awarded for 2005/2006

Jane Beech Memorial Fund, Nottingham – Love, Light, Laughter
£2,800 to fund workshops providing information to promote and safeguard health and prevent disease and illness.
Contact: Lisa Warnock
Phone: 18002 0115 970 0516
Email: lisa.warnock@nottsdeaf.org

RAD Brent, North London
£4,200 to increase access opportunities to information, advocacy and community support for Elderly Deaf People in the Brent area through the empowerment processes.
Contact: Simon Hesselberg
Phone:
Email: simon.hesselberg@royaldeaf.org.ukg

Deaf Access, Bromley, Kent
£4,800 to provide advocacy to deaf people in all aspects of living in the community, particularly that which relates to health issues.
Contact: Susan Craney
Phone: 18002 0208 3152552
Email: deafaccess@fsmail.net

Hearing Concern, Bradford
£8,000 for a joint project with Asian Disability Awareness Action in Bradford (ADAAB) 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.
Contact: Al Martine
Phone: 020 8233 2929
Email: al@hearingconcern.org.uk

Royal Association for Deaf People, Surrey
£7,800 to enable deaf people who have a learning disability to learn about the Department of Health White Paper "Valuing People", to see how it affects their lives
Contact: Sally Titchener
Phone: 01306 881958
Email: sally.titchener@royaldeaf.org.uk

LINK Centre for Deafened People, Eastbourne,
£11,900 to develop a performance review procedure that can be used for volunteer Information Officers.
Contact: Debra SabriPhone: 01323 638230
Email: debra.sabri@linkcntr.dircon.co.uk

Cambridgeshire Deaf Association, Cambridge
£5,000 to provide Drop-In services in the Fenlands and Peterborough Area and Changing Views Advocacy Services for deaf people with extra disabilities
Contact: Jamie Billam
Phone: 18002 01223 246237
Email: cambsdeaf@btconnect.com

Leicester Centre for Deaf People, Leicester
£11,600 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.
Contact: Jason Bell
Phone: 0116 257 4842
Email: projects@cfdpleicester.org.uk

Deaflinks, Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent
£12,70 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.
Contact: Hazel Williams
Phone: 01782 219161
Email: hwilliams.deaf@virgin.net

SIGN, Redhill, Surrey
£13,900 to enable Deaf people with mental health problems to volunteer at a local farm to look after the animals and learn about animal husbandry.
Contact: Sue Wilding
Phone: 01494 687 600
Email: swilding@signcharity.org.uk

Hampshire Deaf Association, Southampton
£13,700 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.
Contact: Ros Bilshen
Phone: 012389 051 6516
Email: ros@deafhampshire.org

2005 – 2008 3 YEAR PROJECTS

The Ann Lloyd Memorial Trust, Clacton on Sea
£13,000 to provide a Drop-In lunch club for Deaf elderly people in the Tendering area and also an open-door service to information and advice for DeafBlind people as well as a communicator guiding.
Contact: Kylie Moorhouse
Phone: 0125 420595
Email: kylie.moorhouse@btopenworld.com

Essex DeafBlind Clubs, Chelmsford
£12,000 to open DeafBlind clubs throughout Essex in the following areas: Ottesford, Baintree, Colchester, Tendering, Harlow, Epping, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Basildon, Castle Point, Rochford and Maldon.
Volunteers will give 1 to 1 support to DeafBlind people.
Contact: Sue Campbell
Phone: 01245 392343
Email: cmpbllsus9@aol.com

West Sussex Deaf and Hard of Hearing Assoc, Haywards Heath
£13,455 Volunteers will provide an Outreach Service to Deaf people in the West Sussex area to offer advice and support with use of hearing aids and other equipment.
Contact: Peter Ford
Phone: 01444 415582
Email: wsdeaf@wsdeaf.org.uk

Asian Deaf Women’s Association, Stratford, East London
£10,000 to recruit and train Counsellors to work with the Asian Deaf community throughout London.
Contact: Yen Lieu
Phone:
Email: rubbena@hotmail.com

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