Thanks to National Lottery Community Fund from HLC and CDCC

 Thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund, deaf people have already benefitted a lot from created connections.

Hearing Loss Cornwall received a grant to support Outreach Events and projects and we have been delighted to discover several people, who we now support, and we have managed to get our message out to many more services about the challenges for d/Deaf people in Cornwall. Every day, we discover people who didn't know what kind of support they could get for their deafness and hearing challenges and we have helped people who have felt very isolated.

We were delighted to know that the Cornwall Deaf Community Centre had received funding from TNLF to support and Outreach Worker for ten hours a week. While she works to support a different deaf charity, through our project, supported by TNLF, we are able to signpost people to a welcoming environment.

It has already made such a difference to both our charities which struggle for support, partly due to the fact that the challenges around deafness go largely misunderstood.

Hearing Loss Cornwall have been able to provide interpreters and communication support at outreach events and it is great to know that we can now fund this support.

PS: We know our demo shows an old version of a hearing loop...we use up to date ones!