Local support services
Deaflink North East
Check their Facebook page for latest events/drop ins.
Twitter: https://
Becoming Visible
Check their Facebook for latest events.
Twitter: https://
NRASS (Only covering Gateshead and Hartlepool)
Independent Advocacy and Welfare Rights Service
Kelly 07850 766 926 or email kelly
Kay 07789 967 928 or email kay
ICA (Independent Complaints Advocacy)
Deaf Clients can contact us by text 07789 088 284 or BSL WhatsApp video on 07738 994 040
Cumbria Deaf Association
Facebook: https://
Twitter: https://
Action Deafness (Durham)
Check their Facebook and ask about their drop in service via messenger.
Email: durhamhubs
National support services
Sign Health
Improving Deaf people’s health and wellbeing. Our services offer support through mental health challenges, domestic abuse and more
Domestic Abuse Service (Sign Health)
Provide a specialist abuse service to support Deaf people in finding safety and security.
- Email: da
@signhealth.org.uk - WhatsApp/SMS: 07970 350 366 (regularly monitored)
- Telephone: 020 3947 2601 (it may not be possible to receive all calls, so please do email/SMS if your call is not answered)
Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD)
Provides accessible services that deaf people want and need in British Sign Language (BSL), to keep them safe, happy, well and achieving their full potential
RNID (Royal National Institute for Deaf people)
We are RNID and together, we’ll make life fully inclusive for deaf people and those with hearing loss or tinnitus.
British Deaf Association (BDA)
Equality. Access. Freedom of choice. The BDA is the UK’s leading membership organisation and registered charity led by Deaf people, for Deaf people
British Society for Mental Health and Deafness (BSMHD) is the only UK charity that focuses entirely on the promotion of positive mental health of Deaf people
Self help
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust self help guides – 23 different information leaflets in BSL
COVID–19 information
NHS 119
You can call 119 if you have questions or need help with COVID-19 vaccinations, testing, NHS COVID Pass, and more.
UK Government COVID vaccination BSL information
How to use technology
- Tips for working remotely when you’re deaf (with BSL videos)
- A BSL video on how to use Zoom
Access to health information
111 the NHS non-emergency number – contact 111 through this website
Communication
Relay UK
Previously Next Generation Text – helping people with hearing and speech difficulties communicate with anyone over the phone, using the national relay service.
VRS/VRI (Video Relay Service/Video Remote Interpreting)
Additional information regarding VRS/VRI
Check this website for a list of organisations that have VRS/VRI
TV Programmes
Mindfulness
- Rebecca Whithey – You Tube BSL via Red Earth Theatre
- Trudi Collier
- Mindfulness and Art | British Sign Language (BSL) videos
Facebook pages
- Deaflink North East
- Becoming Visible
- Sunderland Deaf Centre
- Northumberland And District Deaf Club
- Stanley Deaf Club
- Peterlee Deaf Club
- Hartlepool Deaf Centre
- Middlesbrough Sign & Social
- Middlesbrough Deaf 55+ Club
- Newton Aycliffe Deaf Fellowship
- Northumbria Deaf Church
- Action Deafness
- Tynemouth Sign Language Social
- North East Deaf Support Group
- North East Deaf Events & Information
- Deaf4Deaf
- Sign Health
- British Deaf Association
- BSL Zone
- See Hear
Virtual Museums
Painted Hall – it has a BSL interpretation
Apps
- Texter – Texter live transcribe and will convert speech to text on a phone.
- Live Transcribe – Google Live Transcribe – being promoted within deaf communities in County Durham.
- Otter – Convert speech to text on phone.
- Stop, Breathe and Think – Check in your emotions and help with breathing.
- Calm – Meditation and Sleep – Practice your breathing – lots of different ways.