Growing support for statement of common purpose

The number of signatories to the statement of common purpose on deafness and hearing loss has increased to 75.

The list now includes a local authority, Manchester City Council, and organisations from all parts of the UK.

The steering group that will oversee work to achieve the mission of the statement met for the first time on 30 September. One of its first tasks is to grow the list of signatories even further.

Steering group members have also begun to form the mission groups that will lead the work. The groups will work with others that are already active to avoid duplication, and will include people and organisations from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

If you want to be a signatory to the statement, please contact Dan Sumners, Senior Policy Adviser at Signature, via dan.sumners@signature.org.uk.

Signatories

1. Access Bedford
2. Action Deafness
3. Action for Deafness
4. Action on Hearing Loss
5. appa
6. All Party Parliamentary Group on Deafness, UK Parliament
7. Association of Deaf Education Professionals and Trainees
8. Association of Lipspeakers
9. Association of Sign Language Interpreters
10. Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults
11. Association of Verbatim Speech to Text Reporters
12. Auditory Verbal UK
13. BID Services
14. Brian Archbold
15. British Association of Teachers of the Deaf
16. British Deaf Association
17. Cambridgeshire Hearing Help
18. Chief Officers’ Group of Third Sector Deaf Organisations
19. Clarion Interpreting
20. Cochlear Implanted Children’s Support Group
21. Connevans Limited
22. Cross Party Group on Deafness, Scottish Parliament
23. Cumbria DeafVision
24. Deaf Direct
25. Deaf Education through Listening and Talking
26. Deaf Hub
27. Deaf Umbrella
28. Deafblind UK
29. Deafconnect
30. Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London
31. Deafness Support Network
32. deafPlus
33. Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot Watt University
34. The Ear Foundation
35. Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education
36. Gloucestershire Deaf Association
37. Gwen Carr
38. HearFirst
39. The Hearing Care Centre Ltd
40. Hearing Link
41. Hearing Loss and Deafness Alliance
42. Hertfordshire Hearing Advisory Service
43. Home Counties Cochlear Implant Group
44. Jackie Baillie MSP
45. Jane Cordell
46. Jim Fitzpatrick MP
47. Louise Tonks
48. Manchester City Council
49. Manchester Deaf Centre
50. National Association of Deafened People
51. National Cochlear Implant Users Association
52. National Community Hearing Association
53. National Deaf Children’s Society
54. National Sensory Impairment Partnership
55. NHS Grampian
56. Nottinghamshire Deaf Society
57. Phonak UK
58. Reablement Team, Social Services, Southampton City Council
59. Royal Association for Deaf People
60. Scottish Council on Deafness
61. Sense
62. Sign Language Interactions
63. Sign Solutions
64. Signature
65. SignHealth
66. SignLive
67. SignVideo
68. Social Research with Deaf People, University of Manchester
69. South Wales Cochlear Implant Support Group
70. StageTEXT
71. UK Deaf Sport
72. University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service
73. Visual Language Professionals
74. Your Local Cinema .com
75. Zebra Uno