Volunteer news & updates

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Updates for our volunteers.

Linda’s Way

Congratulations to Linda, who has completed the 102.5 km walk from Leon to Santiago de Compostela, raising a total of £758.75 so far. She spent nights in freezing temperatures and walked in pouring rain, bitterly cold winds and thunderstorms whilst on other days the temperature reached 26 degrees. Linda met some interesting people along the […]

Would love to talk, but…

We are receiving an increasing number of requests for talks. Margaret Canning and Richard Peoples (pictured) are off to Winchburgh Senior Citizens as I write, to talk about hearing loss and Hearing Link Services. The Senior Citizens had a talk from Catherine Steyn about hearing dogs a couple of months ago and asked for another […]

Introducing Katrina

Volunteer Katrina Copping joined us just last year and she has been telling me about some projects she is involved with at the University of Nottingham’s Biomedical Research on Hearing. One of the current projects on why people do or don’t use their hearing aids is an interesting discussion, but could provide us with some […]

Services update May 2022 – Nicholas Orpin

LinkUp Groups It has been a long two years in the waiting, but LinkUp Groups made their return in Edinburgh on 20-22 May! Twelve participants joined Peer Support Volunteers Ann, Charles and Margaret, alongside staff members Michael and Helen, covering the issues and subjects causing the most trouble and finding the solutions – or the […]

Linda’s Camino diary

We reported last month that Hearing Link Volunteer Linda Ray is walking the Camino de Santiago to raise funds for our charity. She is now well on her way, having walked 102.5 km already. Here are some extracts from Linda’s Camino Diary

Caption Relay office visit

Charles and I visited the CaptionRelay office here in Glasgow to find out about the new captioning phone. We found it fairly simple to operate and the captioning was very acceptable.

Services update – Nicholas Orpin

The train travel app development stage is now finished; LinkUp Group dates are confirmed; thanks to volunteers who have offered to join PI Community Days; and monthly community drop-in sessions continue

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