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Tinnitus Awareness Week, West Midlands Area

Published 4th February 2010

8-12 February, 2010

As part of Tinnitus Awareness Week, the Birmingham & District Tinnitus Group are supporting various events throughout the West Midlands to raise awareness of tinnitus and to offer, help, support and advice to sufferers. Due to the nature of tinnitus, the best help is information, advice and support from people who have experience of tinnitus and its impact.
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Life Skills Programme – starting very soon

Published 28th January 2010

bid services are offering a Life Skills Programme for profoundly deaf people with additional learning needs.
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A conference on ‘A Deaf Perspective’

Published 22nd January 2010

bid services are hosting a Palliative Care Conference on Thursday 11th March 2010 at the Deaf Cultural Centre, Ladywood Road, Birmingham. The conference, entitled ‘a deaf perspective’ is aimed at medical and care professionals and will provide invaluable information and advice to those who want to provide deaf patients with the dignity and respect they deserve during their end of life experience.
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bid services hosted a children’s Party

Published 23rd December 2009

On the 12th of December 2009 bid services organised a Christmas party for 30 children living in the Ladywood area. The party was organised to support local children as Ladywood is one of the most deprived areas in the UK and a large number of children live in poverty.
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Volunteer Service gains recognition

Published 8th December 2009

The Volunteer Service at bid services has been awarded APS recognition. APS, the Approved Provider Standard, is a national quality standard which show evidence of a high quality of service in mentoring and befriending. This recognition will open further opportunities for the Volunteer Service to continue its excellent work.
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Interactive Education reaching the wider audience

Published 8th October 2009

A conference will be taking place detailing the innovative technologies available to those that work with individuals with learning disabilities or difficulties, such as dyslexia or sensory impairment or groups that are socially excluded. The conference will be held at the Nottingham Council House, Market Square in Nottingham on Tuesday 27th October 2009, with the conference exhibition open from 8.30am-5.00pm.
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Heritage Project launch ‘Hands at work’

Published 1st October 2009

This lottery funded project has enabled bid services to explore the working life of deaf people during the period of 1920 to 1940. A DVD entitled ‘Hands at Work’ was created by the project and was launched by bid services at the Deaf Cultural Centre on Wednesday 30th September. The aim of the launch was to provide recognition and thanks to those who were involved in the project both in recounting their memories and filming.
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Visual record of Deaf people’s working life - 1920-40

Published 24th September 2009

An event was to be held celebrating the successful completion of the Deaf Heritage Project at the Deaf Cultural Centre on Wednesday 30th September from 10.00am to 2.00pm. The main aim of the Deaf Heritage Project, which was funded by the Lottery Heritage fund, was to conduct a range of interviews with deaf people from the West Midlands who were at work during the period 1920 to 1940.
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Tinnitus Awareness Day

Published 16th September 2009

There will be a Tinnitus Awareness day on Saturday 10th October at 10am to 4pm at Carrs Lane Church Centre in the Birmingham City Centre near Moor Street station. This is an opportunity for sufferers of tinnitus or those who know someone who has this condition, to learn more about it and be introduced to a support network.
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Dance to raise money for bid services

Published 3rd September 2009

John and Bridget Kane have been members of our lip speaking support group for a number of years. They were very keen to support the group and organised a fund raising event to enable the group to keep going.
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City Centre ‘Sign Up’

Published 2nd September 2009

Three deaf people from bid services went onto Edgbaston Street in the City centre on Monday 3rd August, aided by their interpreters to promote the ‘Sign Up’ campaign. They were making themselves available to passers-by who were interested in learning basic British Sign Language (BSL). Most of the passers-by learnt how to fingerspell their names and how to introduce themselves in BSL.
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Deaf people became 10 Years Younger

Published 2nd September 2009

There was a ‘10 Years Younger’ event at the Deaf Cultural Centre on Saturday 18th July from 10am to 4pm. Thirty three women attended the event. and listened to a Professional Fashion Adviser giving tips on fashion.
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Deaf pupils have a ‘hand’ in making masks

Published 2nd September 2009

Bid services' Multimedia Productions Officer, Lisa Davies, joined bid services with an arts background, and was appointed as co-ordinator of DANUK (formerly known as Deaf Arts Network UK) at the Deaf Cultural Centre. Her first job was to find artists to form the UK's first Deaf Arts Network. This would be developed all over the Midlands and now includes more than 30 deaf and hard of hearing artists from all over the UK, some hailing from as far as London and Wales with the furthest from Brighton.
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Get a taster of ‘Sign Up’

Published 30th July 2009

bid services will be at Edgbaston Street in the city centre on Monday 3rd August to promote their ‘Sign Up’ campaign. Staff will be running free sign language taster sessions throughout the day, giving people the opportunity to learn some basic phrases and staff will be available to explain what the ‘Sign Up’ campaign’s aims are. There will also be details on how to enrol for British Sign Language classes. Fingerspelling cards will also be given out to help a complete novice spell out their name.
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Personalisation Conference

Published 21st July 2009

There will be a joint Personalisation conference at the Deaf Cultural Centre hosted by bid services and Options for Life.

The conference is for Third Sector / Voluntary Organisations and other Service Providers.
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