London Short Film Festival 2018 The London Short Film Festival has announced their first screening exclusively for audiences with hearing loss at the festival in January 2018. Head along to BFI southbank on 16th January 2018 at 6:30pm for an evening of archive and contemporary short films, highlighting d/Deaf culture and experience. All films will be fully subtitled. To keep up […]
Hear Here to host free social and networking event in London Hear Here, a social network for professionals living with hearing loss will be celebrating their 1st anniversary next week with an event at Canary Wharf in London. The group was formed to foster connections between those living and working with hearing loss who otherwise knew of no others affected in the same way and serves […]
Survey opportunity: coping at meetings and events with hearing loss How do you get on when you go along to meetings and events? Can you follow what people are saying? Can you enjoy chatting with others? Are the noise levels comfortable? Please contribute to this (reasonably!) short questionnaire https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Meetings006; so conclusions can be drawn about the nature of any difficulties and how widespread they are. […]
Volunteer May presented with Heather Jackson Award Hearing Link volunteer, May Wood, has been named the Heather Jackson Award recipient for 2017 for the significant contribution she has made to the welfare of the hearing loss community in the UK.
Adults encouraged to have their say on social work in England Adult Social Work users are being encouraged to have their say about future research priorities in a new survey. The Adult Social Work Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) is calling on anyone who uses the service, or cares for someone who does, to take part. The PSP is being overseen by the Lyn Romeo, the Chief Social […]
Product of the month – Hearing Link wristband Show your support for Hearing Link or alert others to your hearing loss with our product of the month for November. Our ‘I have a hearing loss’ wristbands are available in four colours – dark blue, blue, orange and green. They are a subtle, visual alert to others which express your communication needs. Our wristbands […]
Captioning Awareness Week 2017 This week marks the third annual Captioning Awareness Week (6th-11th November) run by the charity Stagetext. The organisation is asking you to be a Caption Hero in a bid to raise awareness of captioning to people with hearing loss across the UK. There are different ways you can become a Caption hero: Attend a captioned […]
