Volunteer news & updates

Updates for our volunteers.

My role as a volunteer speaker

By Rosie Wolf I was very nervous the first time I volunteered to give a talk on Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. The talk was to be given to a large audience – about 50 ladies – of the Inner Wheel Club during their Christmas celebrations. My IT skills are fairly basic; I can deal […]

Services update – September 2022

By Nicholas Orpin September felt like a real extension to the summer as we continued the charity’s 40th Anniversary celebrations with an excellent day in Belfast. It was a great opportunity to thank the amazing volunteers, most of whom I had met at June’s LinkUp Group, and also to meet and hear the stories of […]

What’s a dog going to do?

Volunteer Gareth gives us a special peek into his life with Domino. A week ago, the dog trainer came to our house, put Domino and the two bags I’d packed with all his possessions into her car, and drove him to the house where he’ll start his working life as an Accredited Hearing Dog. He’s […]

Claim your free place on a Grange tour

Great news! Tours of The Grange are back. They’ll be on Tuesday afternoons for a limited season of dates from until November. General bookings can be made here. We have a small number of spaces available on certain dates available free of charge to registered volunteers, currently as follows:- • Tuesday 11 October (2 vol […]

Engaging with professionals

Next month (October) the Hearing Loss Services team will be attending the 18th annual British Academy of Audiology (BAA) Conference and Exhibition in Manchester. We will be using the platform as an opportunity to build our relationships with audiologists across the UK. Our team of staff and volunteers will host a small exhibition stand […]

Book recommendation: Hear & Beyond

By Alison Coyle Volunteers Alison Fricker and Mel Woodgate recommended this book to me. I have started reading it, and it’s full of really useful tips and very easy to read. It also mentions Hearing Link Services on page 204. Both co-authors have their own blogs: Shari lives in New York city and is the […]

New technology: live captions from Apple

Thanks to volunteer Rosie Wolf who recently tried out the new app Navi for us and our beneficiaries. Rosie says: ‘I contacted the customer service people and they told me: “It requires an iPhone, iPad with iOS 15 or newer or a Mac with macOS Monterey. Those are quite new, but iPhones released in the […]

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