By Gill Pestell, Hearing Link volunteer In my role as a Hearing Link Community Support Volunteer, I was put in touch with an older lady who preferred contact by letter. She was very lonely and depressed and one of the things I thought might help her was The Silver Line, a charity founded by Dame […]
Our beneficiaries and volunteers came together in Northern Ireland recently for a Link-Up event. The two-day event in Cookstown was a chance for them to reconnect with other participants, Hearing Link volunteers and staff. There was also an opportunity to socialise and mark the festive season with a Christmas celebration complete with Christmas jumpers! For […]
‘Living with the Volcano’: Arts accessibility made manifest at Edinburgh Multi-Artform Venue A Hearing Link volunteer has taken part in an experimental theatre performance in Edinburgh. Ann Thallon, who has a severe hearing loss, worked intensively with musician/theatre maker Greg Sinclair and visual artist Kate Temple to develop and share ‘Volcano’. The project was funded […]
Spend more than £10 in the Hearing Link online shop this December and receive a free pen. We have a fabulous range of communication resources, assistive equipment, gifts and much more at shop.hearinglink.org. To qualify for our free pen deal you must spend £10 or more before delivery. Our offer is valid until 31st December […]
The Scottish group of the Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults is hosting a coffee morning on Saturday 2nd December in Edinburgh. Join them at Deaf Action, 49 Albany Street, Edinburgh from 1pm-4pm. There will be Christmas cards on sale, a raffle and tombola. Money raised at the event will go to supporting lipreading tutors in […]
A new Hearing Link project which aims to help more people with hearing loss reconnect with their families and communities has launched in Northern Ireland. Connect Hear NI, launched with two celebration events at Belfast Castle and Killyhevlin Hotel in Enniskillen earlier this month. Volunteers and local organisations, including statutory and voluntary sector partners, joined […]
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. […]
