On Sunday 30 March, our Statutory Operations Manager, Matthew Fenlon, was invited to BBC Radio Scotland's Sunday Morning programme with Tony Kearney.  The programme looked back on the recent series by Rose Ayling-Ellis, Old Hands New Tricks, and discussed the very important topic of isolation and loneliness affecting the deaf and hard of hearing communities. You can watch the interview ...

This month Deaf Action was delighted to welcome Westminster's MP for Midlothian, Kirsty McNeill, to our headquarters in Edinburgh. Minister McNeill joined us in our head office on Albany Street to discover more about what we do as an organisation and meet some of our staff and service users. She was keen to find out about the difficult funding challenges ...

Citizens Advice Scotland launches British Sign Language video relay service for Universal Credit support Deaf Action is delighted to share that Citizens Advice Scotland has launched a brand-new British Sign Language Video Relay Service for their Help to Claim Universal Credit service. This initiative ensures that deaf BSL users can access free, independent, and confidential advice when applying for Universal ...

For Edinburgh residents, the Deaf Action Equipment Service will not be in operation from 1 April 2025. Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership will now be providing a limited range of equipment for deaf people through its internal services. To find out more, please contact Social Care Direct by telephone on 0131 200 2324 or by email socialcaredirect@edinburgh.gov.uk  The Smart Home ...

Important updates to Deaf Action’s social work services: this service will now by provided directly by Edinburgh Council, East Lothian Council and Midlothian Council.  The three councils that have been funding Deaf Action’s social work service – Edinburgh, East Lothian and Mid Lothian – have been under pressure to cut their spending. Over the last five months Deaf Action staff  have …

It’s International Week of Deaf People, and to celebrate we have teamed up with our friends at The Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh for a special give away competition of one of their amazing BSL translated whisky tours! The Prize: Win 4 free tickets to the Silver Tour at The Scotch Whisky Experience. This 50 minute tour is an immersive …

  We are delighted to announce that Deaf Action will continue to be the Gold Sponsor of our friends at Deaf UK 50+ for the next two years, including 2024 and 2025. We will also sponsor Liz Jones’s time to attend as a committee member and volunteer interpreter during these trips.   In 2023, we sponsored trips to Blackpool & …

Deaf Awareness Week 2024 It’s Deaf Awareness here in the UK, and so to celebrate, Mitchell, Charlotte, and Tomas have been sharing content throughout the week to raise awareness about deafness. To get us started, we thought we'd look at the diversity of deafness. The diversity of deafness   You might think that all deaf people communicate in the same ...

Within Deaf Action’s home in Edinburgh, we have been busy planning how best to create a library. We want this library to be brimming with books, stories and knowledge, and of course, to be a celebration of our community’s culture and heritage. To bring this vision to life, we need your help. We’re on a book hunt! Do you have …