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£168,500 windfall for deaf support group - Rye and Battle Today - Back to Home Page
The Link Centre for Deafened People is celebrating after being awarded £168,500 of lottery funding.
The award, from the Heritage Lottery Fund, will help LINK to kick-start its Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow project.
The cash boost will help the LINK centre explore the communication, employment and health struggles that affect between 150,000 and 300,000 deafened people across the UK.
Working in partnership with the Oral History Society, LINK will train volunteers to collect and record the experiences and memories of other deafened people and share these histories with as many people as possible.
The recordings will be made available in the British Library's sound archive to share the impact hearing loss has on people and the isolation they can feel.
The project, aimed at both young and old, will include creative learning opportunities with a DVD and booklet for use in schools and local community groups.
Dr Lorraine Gailey, LINK's chief executive, said, "This is a really exciting project for LINK.
"Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund we can now record the histories of
people living with acquired profound hearing loss in England.
"At the end of the project we will have a resource pack for schools, which will help us raise awareness of this type of deafness in the future."
Sheena Vick, Heritage Lottery Fund manager for the south east said, "This illustrates our commitment to funding projects that make local history accessible to communities.
"The projects join a host of other schemes supported in the area, ranging from Lewes Castle to Hastings' Alexandra Park."
MP Nigel Waterson, a patron of the LINK Centre, added, "I know the excellent work it does for deafened people from across the whole of the UK. This award will be a tremendous boost."
The Link Centre for Deafened People is celebrating after being awarded £168,500 of lottery funding.
The award, from the Heritage Lottery Fund, will help LINK to kick-start its Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow project.
The cash boost will help the LINK centre explore the communication, employment and health struggles that affect between 150,000 and 300,000 deafened people across the UK.
Working in partnership with the Oral History Society, LINK will train volunteers to collect and record the experiences and memories of other deafened people and share these histories with as many people as possible.
The recordings will be made available in the British Library's sound archive to share the impact hearing loss has on people and the isolation they can feel.
The project, aimed at both young and old, will include creative learning opportunities with a DVD and booklet for use in schools and local community groups.
Dr Lorraine Gailey, LINK's chief executive, said, "This is a really exciting project for LINK.
"Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund we can now record the histories of
people living with acquired profound hearing loss in England.
"At the end of the project we will have a resource pack for schools, which will help us raise awareness of this type of deafness in the future."
Sheena Vick, Heritage Lottery Fund manager for the south east said, "This illustrates our commitment to funding projects that make local history accessible to communities.
"The projects join a host of other schemes supported in the area, ranging from Lewes Castle to Hastings' Alexandra Park."
MP Nigel Waterson, a patron of the LINK Centre, added, "I know the excellent work it does for deafened people from across the whole of the UK. This award will be a tremendous boost."