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Foundation Degree course for the past year. Four others have now embarked on the course and all will increase our capacity once they have qualified. The new students have sent us an early report of their first weeks at East Anglia University which you can read on page 8.
From The CEO: Jane Shaw
Do pick up a copy of the new Impact Report when you can or read it online. The report gives a very clear picture of just how much impact AFD has in this area.
The number of patients who choose AFD as their provider of choice continues to increase month by month. We work very hard to deliver an exemplary service and the best possible outcome for each patient. It is, therefore, vital that we have sufficient excellent clinicians on the team. Regular readers will know that we have been sponsoring a student audiologist through the
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A Word from The CEO, Jane Shaw
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Q&A on the development of drug treatment for hearing loss
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Fundraising News Obituary: Neville Way AFD Presents‌ Staff News AFD Students embark on their new adventure Assistive Listening Devices: Telephones AFD Clubs Hearing Aid Maintenance Clinics and Contact Details
The advances in modern medicine hold great hope for people with sensorineural deafness and we have answered some of your most frequently asked questions about drug therapy for deafness on page 3. The benefits of advancing technology need to be exploited to the full whilst we wait for drug treatments to be perfected. You can drop into one of our Resource Centres to try
IMPACT REPORT AFD has released its Impact Report for 20162017. Pick up a copy from one of the Resource Centres or Hearing Aid Maintenance Clinics.
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TESTIMONIALS The treatment I received was exceptional. The audiologist succeeded where many others had not and their encouragement and understanding helped immensely. The drop in service works equally well, with well informed and friendly staff. Steyning Patient
The audiologist and reception staff were excellent. The audiologist gave a very clear explanation of how to use the new hearing aids. We have been to 3 appointments now - all excellent. We recently moved to this area and we are delighted with the service. Haywards Heath patient
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The staff and volunteers are professional, knowledgeable and helpful. I was delighted with the help I received. Henfield patient
some of the assistive listening devices that are available or to discuss the efficacy of Bluetooth or smart phone technology for your hearing loss. This has been a gloriously colourful autumn – a visual delight for all of us. The Festive Season will soon be upon us and we are very excited about the Christmas Raffle, this year. We have secured some wonderful prizes for which we are very grateful. The raffle will be drawn at the AFD Worthing coffee morning on 19 December. Do pop in and join us if you are in the area, that day. Next year already holds lots of promise and there will be exciting new developments for AFD – more of which in the next edition.
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Q&A on the development of drug treatment for hearing loss Hearing loss occurs when the microscopic hair cells that are located in the cochlea in the inner ear are damaged. These hair cells detect sound waves and turn them into nerve signals that will be sent to the brain through the auditory nerve. This type of hearing loss is known as sensorineural hearing loss. The damage can occur through loud noise exposure or most commonly through ageing. When the hair cells become damaged they cannot regrow so this type of hearing loss is permanent. Various devices such as hearing aids are used to help manage hearing loss but cannot restore normal hearing. Q: W hat progress has been made to date to find a cure for sensorineural deafness? A: Researchers are looking at ways to develop a drug treatment to cure sensorineural hearing loss. Certain animals such as fish and birds can regenerate hair cells in the cochlea naturally which restores hearing. Researchers hope, therefore, that if hair cells could be regenerated in humans then hearing would be restored. Researchers in the United States have discovered a combination of drugs that can increase the number of supporting cells in the cochlea. These supporting cells then become hair cells. This result was obtained by testing the cochlea of a mouse so further testing is needed to ensure that it is safe and effective in humans. Clinical trials are being conducted on people for the first time in the UK and in the United States to find a safe drug treatment. If these trials are successful it would open up a whole new treatment plan for sensorineural hearing loss. Q: A re there other alternatives to drug treatments that are being researched? A: Gene therapy is also being investigated by researchers. Some animals can regenerate hair cells and scientists are looking at the genetic differences between animals that
cannot regenerate and those that can, looking specifically at what genes remain active and which become dormant following hair cell damage. By determining which genes remain active, scientists can determine an activation pathway which will help to find a way to turn hair cell regeneration on and off. Research is currently only being done on mice and it could be many years before clinical trials on humans are completed.
A bundle of stereocilia from a rat ear, ZEISS ORION Helium-Ion microscopy © https://www.flickr.com/photos/ zeissmicro/
Q: W hat is available now to treat sensorineural hearing loss? A:Gene therapy or a specialised drug treatment for hearing loss is still very much in the development stages and will take some time before it is deemed safe to use on humans and even more time before it will be offered as a treatment option. It is also important to note these therapies will only help sensorineural hearing loss. Other types of hearing loss such as conductive hearing loss (caused when sound waves do not travel well to the inner ear) requires a completely different form of treatment. There are various devices available for treatment of profound hearing loss when hearing aids are proven not to be effective: bone anchored hearing aids (BAHAs), cochlear implants, middle ear implants and auditory brainstem implants. These devices do not restore hearing but they can help to give you a chance to hear and understand speech and some other sounds in quiet environments. Lip reading and sign language skills can also aid communication where devices cannot. For references on this article, please visit the AFD website.
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Fundraising NEWS Team AFD Team AFD has now successfully completed all 6 of its races this year; the Brighton 10K, the Great Bristol 10K, the Worthing 10K, the Littlehampton 10K, the Bright10 (Brighton 10 Mile) and the Great South Run. The team has raised over £900. Thank you to all who have sponsored the team in these races. Special thanks are due to Igor Macukat who completed all 6 races this year. Look out for Team AFD in events in 2018.
Christmas Raffle AFD is running another Christmas raffle this year with some fantastic prizes including: £350 Elite Hotel Vouchers, £150 Virgin Experience voucher, British Airways i360 flight vouchers, afternoon tea at both The Grand Hotel, Brighton and The Spread Eagle Hotel, Midhurst.
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Raffle tickets are £1 each or £5 for a strip and available for purchase at AFD Resource Centres or Hearing Aid Maintenance Clinics. The raffle will be drawn on Tuesday 19th December at 12 noon at AFD Worthing. If you are interested in fundraising for AFD, please contact the Fundraising Co-ordinator, Anita.
Forthcoming EVENTS AFD Christmas Signing Choir Performances Thursday 7th December, 6pm – 9pm Haskins Garden Centre, Worthing Saturday 9th December, 10am – 2pm Sainsbury’s Lyons Farm, Worthing
New Lip Reading Classes AFD will be launching two new lip reading classes in Bognor Regis and Chichester. They will commence in January 2018. To book your place or for further information on any of the lip reading classes please contact AFD.
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Saturday 16th December, 10am – 3pm Morrison’s, Newland Street, Worthing
AFD Christmas Raffle Will be drawn on Tuesday 19th December 2017 at 12 noon at AFD 51 Rowlands Road, Worthing, BN11 3JN
Obituary: Neville Way
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Neville was born in 1932 in Norwich and grew up there. He met his wife, Jackie, at the Peggy Carr School of Dancing and they were married in 1958. Neville and Jackie had four children: Nick, Tim, and twin daughters Rachael and Louise. From 1960 to 1973 Neville moved to Birmingham, Brighton and Suffolk with his work with electricity companies.
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In 1973, Neville accepted a position with the Crown Agents in London as Director of Supply. His time with the Crown Agents was certainly the happiest in his working life. He told wonderful stories to his children of the Pyramids of Egypt, the jungles of Africa and the temples of Thailand. It was more than just the travelling that he enjoyed - students from the countries he visited came back to the UK to study and he would organise courses for them. He really enjoyed getting to know them and teaching them.
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After being self-employed for a time, Neville retired in 1998 and thereafter spent a lot of his time giving back to the community in Sussex. He worked on the “Millennium Map” in 2001, driving older people around for CARE until only a couple of years ago and helping to co-ordinate his local Neighbourhood Watch. Neville also did fundraising for the British Heart Foundation taking part in its London to Brighton bike ride until he was 78. He was always there to help anyone who needed him.
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Neville started to attend lip reading classes at AFD several years ago to help with his failing hearing and his Thursday classes were the highlight of his week. Even though he had a cochlear implant he still struggled to hear but he loved the lip reading classes.
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Sadly, Neville passed away in August 2017 and will be greatly missed by his tutor and peers in the lip reading class and the staff of AFD. Some of his fellow students paid tribute to Neville:
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“Neville was great fun, he said he would be coming to the class until he died!” - Toni “Neville will be remembered for his cheeky wit, kindness and generosity. A valued member of the group and greatly missed.” - Judy
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“Neville was such a lovely man. He always had matching socks and shirt. He just loved his bright colours!” - Margaret
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“I have such good and positive memories of Neville. He had a wonderful sense of humour. He is very much missed by us all and it just isn’t the same without him.” - Jenny AFD gratefully acknowledges the generous donations Neville’s friends and family made to AFD in his memory.
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AFD Presents
Major Ted Hunt: The ‘Rhino King’
A Rhino Ferry barge leaves a Landing Ship, taking its cargo to shore [© Imperial War Museum Non Commercial Licence http://www.iwm.org.uk/ collections/item/object/205187146]
Major Ted Hunt talked to AFD about being Captain of 15 Rhino Ferries landing barges which played a vital part in the D-Day invasion. No one, least of all Hitler, expected the Allies to be foolish enough to attempt an invasion landing in Normandy. The slope of the beach and difficult tides would give a strong advantage to the Nazi Germans defending the beaches. This assumption, combined with a strategy to deceive the Germans into thinking that an invasion at Pas de Calais was imminent, meant that the Nazi Command was taken by surprise. The success of D-Day became one of the turning points of the World War II and AFD patient Major Ted Hunt played a distinctive role in this invasion as a Captain of 15 Rhino Ferries.
Major Ted Hunt
The Rhino Ferries were long, shallow drafted, unsinkable barges which carried tanks, guns, and vehicles to the shore from the Landing Ships situated a mile off the French Coast. The shallow waters in Normandy meant that the Allies could only land their ships at High Water during a Spring Tide - hardly a recipe for a surprise. From this, the Allied naval command decided to invade a few hours before High Water and employ the shallow draughted Ferry Craft to take men ashore, as immortalised in the opening sequences of the film ‘Saving Private Ryan’. Following the Ferry Craft would be the Rhino Ferry barges loaded with military supplies and more men. The Rhino Ferries unloaded 93,000 units (tanks, guns and vehicles) and 440,000 tons of military stores onto the beaches. A large
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bulldozer was even carried onto the shore to anchor the ferries and then to push them back into the sea. The naval command knew these ferries would require a captain experienced in tides and currents who could calculate and navigate optimum landing times and respond quickly to changes in the weather. Their search led them to headhunt ‘Lightermen’ who were the barge masters of the Port of London. At 24 years of age Major Hunt was already known as the ‘Rhino King’ - a perfect candidate to become captain of 15 Rhino Ferries out of the 64 used for D-Day. At this point Major Hunt had already completed four years of service which included the famous Battle of Narvik in Norway in 1940 when he was just 19 years of age. By 1943 Major Hunt was a Lieutenant for Inland Water Transport moving invasion craft from London Docks inland to Richmond. Major Hunt was more than qualified to take on this important role. For any beach assault on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean an ability to predict the height and timing of high tides is crucial. A miscalculation could leave a vessel being stranded and becoming a sitting duck. Major Hunt aimed to unload the cargo for each Rhino ferry in only 6 minutes because in that time a 6 inch drop would cause the water’s edge to recede the length of the Rhino. “I wasn’t frightened. The officers were the lucky ones, they had something to think
about. I was responsible for so much, knowing my decisions could cost lives. It was much easier for me than my men. Some of them will have been terrified.”
25 hours a day and believed that if I went to sleep we would probably lose the war. That’s how bomb happy I was.”
A few days after the invasion, Major Hunt was onshore when the battleship HMS Rodney fired a salvo of 16 inch shells – a salvo being a simultaneous discharge of artillery.
Fortunately for Major Hunt, his hearing did return to normal a few days later but many others were not so lucky.
“I was onshore and suddenly I saw a whole mass of flame over the whole ship and the air moved and after the second time I was deaf. I thought ‘Ooh that hurts’ but I also thought ‘How lucky I am to be this end’ as the Germans were blown to pieces… Later I saw a medical lieutenant who said that if the deafness didn’t clear in 48 hours they would send me home. I didn’t really want to go because by then I was working
Pearl Gilbert:
In September 2017, Major Hunt was awarded the Légion d’Honneur, the highest decoration of merit from the French Government, in recognition of his role in the D-Day landings. He is the last surviving member of the men who provided their seamanship and river knowledge which proved so vital to the success of D-Day. As he received the award, he gave a speech thanking France on behalf of all the 120 Lightermen under his command at Gold Beach.
AFD Centenarian Patient shares memories from the early 20th Century
Pearl Gilbert is one of Action for Deafness’ centenarian patients. Pearl was born in Tonbridge in 1916 and now lives in Ashurst Wood, near East Grinstead.
the Chalybeate Spring today by ‘The Dipper’ dressed in 18th Century period costumes - look out for the next Action for Deafness Minibus Trips to The Pantiles!
In her teenage years, Pearl loved to dance. Wearing their long velvet ‘best’ dresses, Pearl and her older sister Zena would catch the bus from Tonbridge to Tunbridge Wells to go Ballroom Dancing. Both girls were named after famous actresses of the 1920s - Pearl White and Zena Dare – and they would have looked every bit as glamourous as their namesakes sitting on the bus in their ballroom gowns.
Pearl met her husband, Ernest, just before World War II. Every week Pearl walked down the street to post her mother’s football pools coupon and every week Ernest would be there as she passed by. One day he introduced himself, they got chatting and he took her and Zena out for fish and chips. Ernest and Pearl got married at St Stephen’s Church in Tonbridge and moved to South Godstone in 1938. When war broke out, the couple looked after two evacuee children from London, Tommy and Kathleen. Pearl remembers how much Tommy liked his custard, almost putting his whole face in the bowl because it was so tasty! Pearl and Earnest looked after Tommy and Kathleen until Pearl gave birth to her first son.
During the period of intense social upheaval between the wars, Ballroom Dancing became the most popular pastime in Britain. Dance schools and dance halls sprang up all across the UK and it was in one of them that Pearl and Zena learnt to dance the Waltz and the Foxtrot. The Foxtrot was a new unstructured dance originally danced to American Ragtime music but suitable for the popular music of that era. Dancers like Pearl and Zena would improvise and experiment with steps which eventually evolved into dances of the modern ballroom style and ‘English Ballroom Dancing’ (today known as ‘The International Style’) became popular all over the world. The Foxtrot remained the most popular dance right up until Rock ‘n’ Roll music was introduced from America in the 1950s. After dancing the girls would stop at the Pantiles in Tunbridge Wells for a cup of cloudy iron-rich water served in an enamel cup from the famous Chalybeate Spring. It is this spring to which Tunbridge Wells owes both its name and history as a famous Spa town for the aristocratic ladies and gentlemen of the 18th century. You can still be served water from
Pearl and Ernest had two sons, Gerald and Peter. Pearl has an enduring memory of a very young Gerald playing on the street in his shiny pedal car. The car was found on a rubbish heap in Tonbridge, and was lovingly restored and polished before being sent along on a train to South Godstone. When the air raid siren went off one day, all the older children ran indoors leaving little Gerald in the middle of the road, still sitting in his car. Pearl rushed out to find him just as an aeroplane flew overhead. Grabbing Gerald with one arm and the pedal car with another, Pearl ran back inside her house to the big long table which they huddled under for shelter. Thankfully everyone was safe and the only calamity was the chocolates she had put in the shelter to divert the children’s attention away from any danger overhead being eaten by the dog.
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Staff News Katie Willis – Student Audiologist I am very excited to have recently returned to Action for Deafness as a Student Audiologist, undertaking a Foundation Degree in Hearing Aid Audiology at Anglia Ruskin University. I first became involved with Action for Deafness in 2008, providing administrative and marketing support during the rebranding of the organisation. I particularly enjoyed my involvement in increasing awareness of our NHS audiology service to service users. In 2011, having returned to my own business, I became a trustee and continued to support Action for Deafness. I subsequently undertook a short-term contract with the organisation in 2012, providing administrative support during an exciting period, including expansion of premises and preparation for UKAS accreditation. I am incredibly proud to have been part of the team when AFD was granted the first UKAS accreditation for Adult Hearing. More recently, I was involved in building a business offering therapeutic and informative talks aimed at residents in residential and nursing homes across Sussex and Surrey,
BSL Success Congratulations to Deaf Services Coordinator, Gerry Turton and Transport Facilitator, Joe Morphew, who have both passed their British Sign Language Level 3. Joe will now progress to the Level 6 course. We wish him every success.
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regularly visiting over 100 homes. This service provides interactive and informative talks with the use of technology using music and video content, helping to maintain and stimulate communication skills and reduce the impact of social isolation. This experience has contributed to my desire to find more ways to enhance people’s enjoyment of life. In view of our rapidly ageing population, it is clear that there is an increasing need to provide early support to diagnose and treat hearing loss and to reduce the stigma associated with the use of hearing aids. This has fuelled my ambition to retrain and follow a career in audiology, a discipline where the rapid pace of change in technology is leading to better outcomes for patients with hearing loss. I am proud of my involvement and contribution to the development of services offered by Action for Deafness and look forward to acquiring new skills for my future involvement in the expansion of its audiology services.
AFD Students embark on their new venture The prospect of being a student created increasing excitement in the weeks leading up to the start of the course and we all feel fortunate to be enrolled on this course. Our first residential week at University was one of intensive lectures and practical lab sessions. We are all mature students and teaching methods have changed rapidly in the past few years. Online access is required for all information and there is a myriad of passwords to remember but we were not discouraged. On entering the lecture theatre for our first session, we took our seats in one of the front rows. Later however, we took the opportunity to move further back to the higher seats and mingle among our fellow students. However the screen was not so clear at a distance… so back to the front we went! The content of the course has been very interesting so far, covering anatomy, physiology and the pathology of the ear. It did also include, however, a rather daunting session on logarithms presented one afternoon in a very stuffy classroom toward the end of a pretty intensive day of learning. We had a sudden realisation that extra effort and concentration on this subject would be required. During this first week, we were taken in groups for our library induction. This wasn’t a tour of endless rows of bookshelves containing well-thumbed editions of academic literature, but rather a group participation in a computer based quiz in a classroom full of computer screens. The quiz was conducted with a background theme tune similar to the popular TV quiz ‘Countdown’. A bowl of sweets was passed around to give everyone a burst of energy and enthusiasm for what could easily have become a rather dull session. Team AFD set about answering each question enthusiastically within the time limit. All questions related to finding specific information within the extensive library resource. At the end of each section, top scorers were listed on the main screen and I’m proud to say we didn’t let you down…. Team AFD topped the scoreboard! On reflection, however, we felt perhaps we needed to get out more as the younger students do. As we wanted to embrace student life as fully as possible during our time at the University, we decided to make use of the Mumford Theatre on campus and booked to see a performance of ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’ performed by a duo from the Bristol Old Vic. The benefits of being a student…only £5 a ticket and Gin & Tonic in a
can from the bar. It was a hugely entertaining and quirky performance with only two male actors, one who played all six wives. The entertainment even included music from the late 1980s reminiscent of earlier student days. We are all grateful to Action for Deafness for sponsoring us through this training toward an exciting new career and look forward to being equipped with new skills for our future involvement in audiology services. The content of the course provides us with a comprehensive knowledge to support our work-based practical training. We do, however, rely on the enthusiastic support of our colleagues and especially our dedicated supervisors and would like to thank them for this support.
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Assistive Listening Devices: Telephones AFD has various telephones with amplification capability available for demonstration and sale in its Resource Centres. If you have a hearing loss and are struggling to hear on the phone, amplified telephones with a built in telecoil (inductive loop) might help. There are also other things that you can try with your existing phone first which might be of benefit. If you wear hearing aids, you will need to pay attention to how you hold the receiver to your ear. When wearing hearing aids you hear through the microphones of the hearing aid. These are located at the top of the hearing aid as shown in the picture. This means that you will need to place the telephone receiver above the ear and leave a space between the receiver and ear to allow the sound to travel to the hearing aid microphones as seen in the photo. This may take some practice but it will be more beneficial than placing the receiver on the ear as you would normally do. Another option is to use the
loudspeaker or hands free option but that is not ideal for private conversations or in rooms with poor acoustics. Telephones with a telecoil are compatible with most hearing aids. To make use of this facility, hearing aids need to have the loop programme activated. Once hearing aids are switched to the loop programme, the telephone receiver needs to be placed close to the ear so that the hearing aid can pick up the sound from the receiver. You may need to move the receiver above or below the ear to get the best result. The benefit of using the loop programme is that sound is sent directly to the hearing aid with no external interference. For a demonstration of any assistive listening device just pop into one of AFD Resource Centres. No appointment is required. The full range of products is also available in the AFD online shop: www.actionfordeafnessshop.com Microphones
Interpreting Services for Deaf, Deafened, Deafblind and Hard of Hearing People We provide highly skilled Language Service Professionals that match your communication needs Interested in learning British Sign Language or wish to build on existing skills?
We offer courses at all levels in Haywards Heath, delivered by qualified and experienced Deaf tutors.
Our 2018 programme includes:
Introduction to British Sign Language, commencing January 2018 iBSL Sign Language Courses from Level 1 – Level 6. These courses will offer a balance of classroom and online learning iBSL Level 6 Diploma in Sign Language Interpreting Studies, commencing September 2018 (interviews in June/July 2018)
In addition, we are offering a monthly linguistic session which will be running from January 2018 on the 4 th Thursday of the month from 7pm to 9pm. These sessions will be suitable for Level 2, 3, 4 and 6 students. Please contact BSL Link for Communication if you are interested and then just turn up on the evening and have the opportunity to practise various linguistics elements of BSL, supported by Deaf tutors. Please visit our website for further details.
CLUBS in West Sussex AFD CLUBS BOGNOR REGIS
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AFD Coffee Morning Where: Age UK West Sussex, The Laburnum Centre & Gym When: 3rd Thursday of the month, 10:30am - 12:30pm Contact: Action for Deafness Tel / SMS: 01444 415582 Fax: 01444 415587 Text: 01444 415593
AFD Communication Club Where: 22 Sussex Road When: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, 7pm - 9pm Contact: Action for Deafness Tel/SMS 01444 415582 Fax: 01444 415587 Text: 01444 415593
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AFD Burgess Hill Darby & Joan (Deaf) Club Where: Burgess Hill Conservative Club When: 1st Friday of the month, 11am - 4pm Contact: Action for Deafness Tel / SMS: 01444 415582 Fax: 01444 415587 Text: 01444 415593
AFD Communication Club Where: 51 Rowlands Road When: Every 1st Tuesday of each month, 7- 9pm Contact: Action for Deafness Tel / SMS: 01903 217341 Fax: 01903 239117 Text: 01903 201243
EAST GRINSTEAD AFD Coffee Morning Where: Lodge Coffee Shop, Chequer Mead Community Arts Centre, De La Warr Road, East Grinstead When: 1st Thursday of the month, 10.30am - 12.30pm Contact: Action for Deafness Tel/SMS 01444 415582 Fax: 01444 415587 Text: 01444 415593
AFD Coffee Morning Where: 51 Rowlands Road, Worthing When: Every Tuesday, 10.30am – 12.30pm Contact: Action for Deafness Tel / SMS: 01444 415582 Fax: 01444 415587 Text: 01444 4155933
OTHER CLUBS IN WEST SUSSEX CRAWLEY
HAYWARDS HEATH
Crawley Deaf Darby & Joan Club Where: The Twitten, Ginhams Road, Crawley. When: 1st & 3rd Wednesdays, from 10am - 4pm Contact: Mary Dean – 01293 523488 (fax)
Sussex Deaf Forum Where: 22 Sussex Road When: 2nd Thursday of the month (except July and August), 7.00pm - 9.00pm Contact: BSL Link for Communication Ltd SMS: 07794 405794 Tel: 01444 415582 Fax: 01444 415587 Text: 01444 415593
Crawley Deaf Social Club Where: Furnace Green Community Centre. Ashburnham Road, Crawley. When: 3rd Saturday (except January and August), from 5.00pm - 10.30pm Contact: John Redwood: jwredsign@btinternet.com Pub Gathering Where: Goffs Park Hotel, Goffs Park Road, Crawley. When: 1st Fridays, from 8pm onwards. Contact: paula@eboz.co.uk (email) Springboard – Mothers & Toddlers Where: Northgate Children Family Centre, Barnfield Road, Northgate RH10 8DP When: 2nd & 4th Mondays, from 9.30am - 11.30am Contact: Liz Beatty – Sensory Support Team – 0845 0751007 sensory.support@westsussex.gov.uk
WORTHING Worthing Deaf Darby & Joan Club Contact: Peter Cornish – 01903 752058 (fax) Worthing Deaf Social Club Contact: Julie Cornish – 01903 752058 (fax) Worthing Hard of Hearing Club Where: Methold House, North Street, Worthing. When: Every Monday (except August), from 7.30pm - 9pm Contact: Barbara Cook 01903 230319 (voice/text)
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HEARING AID MAINTENANCE CLINICS December 2017 – March 2018
PROVIDING ADVICE, SUPPORT, RE-TUBING AND BATTERIES PLEASE NOTE CLINICS DO NOT OPERATE ON BANK HOLIDAYS
Weekly Clinics EAST GRINSTEAD CLINIC
HEATHFIELD CLINIC
GLEN VUE CENTRE, (WARELAND HOUSE), RAILWAY APPROACH, RH19 1BS Every Wednesday 9.30am-12.30pm
HEATHFIELD 92, 96-98 HIGH STREET, HEATHFIELD, TN21 8JD Every Thursday 9.30am-12.30pm
HENFIELD CLINIC
LEWES CLINIC
STEYNING CLINIC
HEWITTS, HENFIELD, BN5 9DT Every Tuesday 9.30am-12.30pm
PHOENIX CENTRE, 26 MALLING ST, LEWES, BN7 2RD Every Wednesday 9.30am-12.30pm
STEYNING HEALTH CENTRE, TANYARD LANE, BN44 3RJ Every Thursday 9.30am-12.30pm
Monthly Clinics BURGESS HILL CLINIC
BOGNOR REGIS CLINIC
CRAWLEY CLINIC
SIDNEY WEST PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, PARK VIEW, LEYLANDS ROAD RH15 8HS
FLANSHAM PARK HEALTH CENTRE, 109 FLANSHAM PARK PO22 6DH
GOSSOPS GREEN MEDICAL, HURST CLOSE RH11 8TY
2nd Tuesday of each month at 9.30am – 12:30pm
2nd Wednesday of each month 9.30am – 12:30pm
Last Wednesday of each month 9.30am – 12:30pm
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HASSOCKS CLINIC
HORSHAM CLINIC
SHOREHAM CLINIC
AGE CONCERN, DALE AVENUE BN6 8LW
AGE UK, LAVINIA HOUSE, DUKES SQUARE, HORSHAM, RH12 1GZ
NORTHBOURNE MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 93A UPPER SHOREHAM ROAD, BN43 6BT
1st Tuesday of each month 9.30am – 12:30pm
1st Thursday of each month 9.30am – 12:30pm
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2nd Thursday of each month, 9.30am – 12:30pm
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Worthing
53 Rowlands Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 3JN
01903 217341 01903 239117 01903 201243 info@actionfordeafness.org.uk
Open: Monday to Friday, 9 – 5pm
We also have occasional clinics at AGE UK centres and in care homes around the county. Please contact us for more details. /afd_uk
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www.actionfordeafness.org.uk Charity No. 1122579 Company No. 6205458
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