There are 189,000 Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deafened and Deafblind adults, and at least 800 hearing impaired children living in Leicestershire. Research shows that 71% of over 70 year-olds have some sort of hearing loss, along with 41% of over 50s. We work towards an inclusive society by offering many services, including communication and interpreting.

Action for Tinnitus Research is a UK-based tinnitus charity that focuses on funding medical, scientific and social research into tinnitus. Its aims are to: * Support and encourage research projects * Raise funds for education and awareness programmes * Increase public awareness through use of the media * Maintain active relationships with medical, professional and scientific researchers * Encourage authoritative contributions to the tinnitus debate * Provide an information source for health professionals * Give financial support for suitable projects

To make Islamic education accessible and possible for the Deaf community. Our organisation aims to break down complex Islamic concepts and Quranic Arabic into a format that engages and works with Deaf educational needs.

Alstrom Syndrome causes childhood blindness, hearing loss, heart failure, kidney failure, diabetes type two, obesity and many related health problems. Alstrom Syndrome UK (ASUK) is a small family run charity providing support and advice to families living with Alstrom Syndrome. We provide newsletters an annual family conference and quarterly clinic support.

Asian People's Disability Alliance's provides services to disabled people, their families and their carers, based on their specific personal, cultural and community needs. It works in the UK and Internationally. Set up in 1988, it is led and managed by Asian people with disabilities.

Our results - and our children - speak for themselves! Auditory VerbalUK is the UK's only Centre for Auditory Verbal Therapy. Every day in Britain, two children are born with severe and permanent hearing impairment. This disability will leave many of these children isolated and failing to achieve their educational and social potential. Advances in hearing aid and cochlear implant technology, combined with AVT, enable children to learn how to listen, to understand what they are hearing and to speak for themselves. Please visit www.avuk.org to learn how you can help more children step into the hearing world.

In developing countries there is a lack of trained workers and equipment for raising awareness of deafness or preventing it. There is little help available to detect deafness and fit hearing aids. AUD-M-ED is a UK based Charity seeking to help deaf people in developing countries.

The BDA is the largest Deaf organisation in the UK that is run by Deaf people. The BDA is campaigning for the legislation of BSL. The BDA also wants to see an end to discrimination against Sign Language users, both Deaf and hearing.

Christopher Place, the Speech, Language and Hearing Centre, provides early intervention programmes for babies and children under 5, who have hearing impairment or delay in speech, language and communication. They are 'Helping Children Speak for Themselves' through assessments, a specialist nursery school, parent and child groups and a therapy clinic.

1 in 5 people in Scotland experience some degree of hearing loss. Deaf Action is a deaf-led registered charity working across Scotland and internationally. Our mission is to raise awareness of the needs and rights of deaf people, challenge discrimination, and provide services to promote independence and quality of life. We do this by providing a range of services to deaf, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people, and to those who work with them, including: Information, Advice & Guidance; Communication Support; Specialist Equipment; Social Care; Multimedia Translation; and Training & Leisure opportunities. Our vision is to work together for an equal and better future for all deaf people.

Deaf Child Worldwide is the only UK based development organisation dedicated to ending poverty and isolation amongst deaf children worldwide by supporting the creation of local, national and global family-led movements to campaign for positive change for deaf children and young people.

It is the oldest charity for adult Deaf people in the world. It provides a range of specialist services aimed at improving the quality of Deaf and Hard of Hearing people who live in Glasgow and the West of Scotland.

Deafax works to empower deaf people of all ages to lead fulfilling lives through the use of innovative communications technologies and by developing deaf-friendly resources and delivering training and workshops. By making information more accessible, visual and interactive Deafax supports deaf people, enabling them to reach their full potential.

Deafblindness is one of the most challenging disabilities that a person can endure, and has been described as ‘the loneliest condition in the world’ Established in 1928, Deafblind UK is a national charity offering people across the UK living with Deafblindness, or a combined sight and hearing loss, practical daily-living support and access to vital information. Each deafblind person is unique, and sometimes has complicated needs; often their deafblindness is combined with other disabilities, so a care programme can be very complex. By providing human support in the form of help at home, communication and mobility support, counselling, together with specially adaptive equipment, we help deafblind people achieve their full potential, whatever that may be.

One in seven of the UK population has a hearing disability. Deaf babies face a lifetime struggling to communicate; the elderly can become isolated from friends and family. Deafness Research UK works towards advances in scientific and medical research, to ensure that one day all forms of hearing disability will be overcome.

Deafway’s vision is that all deaf people, wherever they live, get the same chances in life as everybody else. Deafway aims to identify and remove the barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their true potential and from participating fully in all aspects of life.

DELTA believes that the vast majority of deaf children can learn to listen and talk and that all parents of deaf children should be given this option. It's aim is to promote the education of hearing imparied children through the use of their residual hearing capacity and through the development of a naturally spoken language.

Established in 1989 to bring cochlear implantation for deaf children to the UK; cochlear implants give useful hearing to those unable to benefit from hearing aids. It provides long-term help for the child, family and supporting professionals. One half of profoundly deaf children in the UK now have cochlear implants.

The Ear Trust helps in the diagnosis and management of profoundly deaf babies, children and adults mainly in the North of England. It also supplies information on cochlear implantation for families and professionals, supports regular local and national workshops and aids development of assessment and rehabilitation materials.

East Lancashire Deaf Society (ELDS) is a leading Deaf charity in Lancashire. ELDS supports and works with the local Deaf community. ELDS provides a wide range of services:- Family, Community, Youth, Volunteering, Employment, BME and Interpreting service.

The Elizabeth Foundation pre-school for deaf children and their families follows the "Multi Sensory Oral Approach", encouraging the development of speech, language and listening skills by using all of the child's senses in a natural, fun, child-centred environment.

East Sussex Disability Association (ESDA) offers help and support to Disabled People in East Sussex. It offers a vast range of impartial services including an information service, a benefits advice service and a Disabled Living Centre.

Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education aims to provide a happy, safe and secure environment in which deaf children and young people can reach their full potential. We are a non-maintained special school for deaf and hearing impaired students, providing primary education through to college education for ages 4-24. We have residential and non-residential places with students attending from across the South West, South Wales and beyond. We also provide outreach services. These include supporting students studying in mainstream schools and colleges and giving training in British Sign Language.

HDA believes in working together with deaf, hard of hearing and hearing people to create a world of equal access and opportunities. It maintains a range of services that meet the needs of the deaf community by providing information and opportunities to break down the barriers faced by people with a hearing loss so they can realise their full potential.

National charity which supports and promotes the interests of adults living with acquired hearing loss (AHL) and their families. It provides information and advice, training and research and works with volunteers to raise awareness of the needs of people with AHL. Specialised rehabilitation, personal development and communication courses support people at all stages of AHL.

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People trains dogs to alert their deaf owners to sounds such as the telephone, doorbell or smoke alarm. Most dogs are selected from rescue centres, giving unwanted dogs useful and happy lives to the benefit of deaf people.

The JDA’s vision is of a world where there are no barriers to communication and understanding between D/deaf and hearing people; a world with respect, inclusion and equality. The JDA is an independent, national charity which provides innovative, high quality, professional services to Jewish D/deaf and hard of hearing people.

Lifeblood provides public education to improve the understanding of thrombosis and funds scientific research into the diagnosis,causes,prevention and cure of thrombosis. It also works to further doctor's knowledge of thrombosis by workshops and conferences in the UK. It maintains a website www.thrombosis-charity.org.uk

The charity has a free clinic in Luxor that helps disabled children to walk and deaf children to speak. It provides wheel chairs and walking aids and has a food distribution programms plus a family sponsorship scheme.

Mary Hare's work benefits a large number of profoundly deaf children and young adults, providing training for teaching and music therapy for children in the Southeast.

The Meniere’s Society provides support and information to sufferers of Meniere’s disease. Meniere’s disease is a long term, progressive disorder which damages the balance and hearing parts of the inner ear - symptoms are vertigo, tinnitus and deafness. They also fund research into the causes and treatments for Meniere’s disease.

NDCS is the national charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people. We represent the interests and campaign for the rights of all deaf children and young people from birth to independence. NDCS believes that the family is the most important influence on a deaf child's development. NDCS supports the deaf child through the family as well as directly supporting deaf children and young people themselves.

Neema Crafts has funded a large new centre in Iringa, Tanzania that employs over 100 disabled people. It is also changing the negative attitudes to the disabled that are so common. Neema Crafts also provides free physiotherapy for disabled children. This project now needs regular funding.

The Neurofibromatosis Association (NfA) is the only UK charity dedicated to the provision of support, advice and help to those affected by neurofibromatosis, their families and the professionals concerned with their care. This is provided through a network of support co-ordinators across the country and through research into the disorder.

The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals (ORH) Charitable Funds is the umbrella charity for over 700 funds supporting projects across the ORH NHS Trust that enhance services and facilities for patients and staff. These range from support for particular wards, at the John Radcliffe, Churchill and Horton Hospitals, to larger fundraising campaigns to support major developments such as the new Oxford Cancer Centre, the Oxford Children's Hospital, the Geratology Appeal and the Oxford Heart Centre expansion. As one of the foremost teaching trusts in the UK, the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals enjoy a national and international reputation in fields such as cancer and cranio-facial surgery. Please give generously - your support enables us to provide the best possible healthcare in the best possible setting, to a standard far higher than the NHS alone would be able to afford.

We are the only charity specifically supporting adults with physical and cognitive impairment in the Bristol area – this includes Bristol, south Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath

Providing day outings and holidays on waterways for people of all ages with any kind of disability or serious illness

Penn School is a secondary school for children aged between 11-18 years with communication difficulties associated with hearing impairment and/or speech and language difficulties who may have additional physical or learning problems. For more information please visit the web site (www.pennschool.bucks.sch.uk)

We're RNID, the charity working to change the world for the UK's 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people. Your support can help us raise awareness of deafness and hearing loss, challenge discrimination, provide front line services, and fund innovative social, medical and technical research.

Rotary International is the world's largest organisation of business and professional people.We belong to a global network of service volunteers helping those in need and working towards world understanding and peace.

Much of RAD’s work is with Deaf people who use British Sign Language. We also work with people with all forms of deafness, including those who are hard of hearing, deafened, or deafblind. RAD enables Deaf people to have equal access to the same opportunities as hearing people. We provide interpreting services and social care. We also provide advocacy, employment and legal services, and support Deaf people from black and minority ethnic communities. We also support children, youth and families and the Deaf community as a whole by working with Deaf clubs. Most of RAD’s work is in London, the East of England and the South East. For further information visit <u>www.royaldeaf.org.uk</u>

The Royal School for Deaf Children, Margate and Westgate College aim to educate and care for d/Deaf children and young people, who have additional complex needs, for a positive future.

As the voice of deaf people in Scotland, SCoD exists to improve the lives of Scottish deaf and deafblind people, to promote their rights as individuals and to reduce their sense of exclusion. Established in 1927, it is a deaf-led charity and the lead organisation for deaf issues in Scotland.

Sense is the UK's largest organisation offering support to deafblind people and their families. Established in 1955 as a parent's support group, Sense now offers a range of services - including, advice, housing, education and practical help to children and adults who are both deaf and blind.

Sense International's mission is to ensure that deafblind people throughout the world receive the education and services they need to develop their talents and play a valued role in society.

Sense Scotland works with children and adults with complex support needs because of deafblindness or sensory impairment, learning disability or physical disability.

SignHealth is the National Healthcare Charity for Deaf People. SignHealth are committed to bringing better healthcare and equality of service provision to Deaf people through campaigning, working in partnership with other organisations and the provision of specialist services for Deaf people. These services include health promotion, counselling, advocacy, outreach and supported living.

UCanDoIT is a charity providing computer training to blind, deaf and disabled people. Given the benefits that computer technology provides to a person's independence and quality of life UCanDoIT believes that any disabled person, who needs a computer and/or the training to use it, should get it.

UK Deaf Sport aims to enable Deaf people to benefit from, excel at and fulfil their potential through sport of their own choosing. UK Deaf Sport influences positive changes and opportunities in sports culture, policy and procedure by brokering partnerships with key decision makers and sports councils and national governing body of sports.

It assists multi-disabled visually impaired adults to fulfil their maximum physical, intellectual, emotional and social potential with the provision of community based residential services with full time 24 hour support, together with a range of specialised day care support services, tailored to suit the needs of each client.