Support the Byrne family's fundraising for CDA and NDCS

https://www.facebook.com/CambridgeshireDeaf/videos/810430932339290/ You can donate towards Chris’s marathon donation page here. His son, Henry, is having an operation to help him hear. The family have received support from NDCS and CDA so all funds donated will be shared between the two charities. CDA helped the family with communication around the home, including a family sign language

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UK Sport Deaf Sport Survey

In February UK Deaf Sport launched their first National Sport and physical activity survey. The survey aims to find out the views, experiences and attitudes of people who are deaf and hard of hearing towards sport and physical activity The survey is hugely important as it will be used to shape the future of Deaf

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How to report to Facebook when scammers are pretending to be someone else

This signed and helpfully subtitled video explains how to report to Facebook when someone is pretending to be someone else – like copying a profile for example. You’ll normally notice this when someone you thought you were already friends with makes another friend request. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=795014080526157

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Deaf businessman Matt Talbot coming to talk at Peterborough's Skills Club

Hello and welcome to Skills Club. I want to let you all know about some exciting new information. There is a deaf businessman from Peterborough named Matt Talbot. He has worked all around the world for many years an in that time has amassed plenty of experience. He’s coming to Skills Club to give an-hour

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Are youre you interested in attending BSL parenting courses?

[wpvideo H9xd4N1s] Raising children isn’t easy. Sometimes it can be more challenging for deaf parents because of the communication problems with their children. Have you ever thought a parenting course would be useful? CDA Are working with Cambridgeshire County Council to see if there is enough demand for a specific parenting course for deaf parents

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Get your tickets for Nursing Lives – a fascinating play without words in Cambridge

Vamos Theatre are bringing their latest full mask theatre show Nursing Lives to Mumford Theatre on the 9th and 10th March, 7.30pm. Like all our productions, Nursing Lives is wordless, telling its story through physical performance, creative design and visual inventiveness, and is highly accessible to theatre-goers who are deaf or have hearing loss. Nursing

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Tickets available for tourettes lecture at Cambridge University (with BSL and captions)

The 12th Annual Disability Lecture called Laughter as a Catalyst for Change will be given by Jess Thom. Book tickets here The lecture is an opportunity to hear Jess talk about the often misunderstood neurological condition, Tourette’s Syndrome, which causes her to say ‘biscuit’ up to 16,000 times a day. Organised jointly between the University’s Disability Resource Centre

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