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Part-time As Safe As Houses Community worker (14 hours a week) Fixed-term until 31.3.2022 with a possible extension subject to securing new funding. Deaf-initely Women is currently recruiting a Community Worker to work for As Safe As Houses project. The post holder...

Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s Vulnerability Fund Deaf-initely Women team were delighted after they heard that we were successful with our funding, the project is called 'As Safe As Houses', to ensure deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind women are safe in...

💚Management Committee are celebrating by wearing green top! Happy St Patrick's Day!💚 #deafinitelywomen #deaf #hardofhearing #hearingloss #BSL #stpatricksday21 #charityUK

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Lip-reading for hard of hearing Wednesday 14th April | 10am-12noon Coping with loss workshop with Trudi Collier Thursday 29th April | 6.30-8.30pm Sugar-craft cake decoration Friday 7th May | 10am-1pm Living with low mood with Trudi Collier Wednesday 12th May |...

We are hoping to welcome volunteers back to our office. They will have the opportunity to get involved in organising events/workshops if the Roadmap continues to ease the lockdown restrictions in England. We are looking at welcoming deaf women to volunteer from June...

Deaf-initely Women is planning for all staff to gradually return to our office.  We are looking forward to welcoming all staff and volunteers back into our office. Hopefully, we are making plans again for future face-to-face workshops which are COVID-19 secure. We...

Our support worker will meet with you to discuss the problems you are having and she will help you to access any support and advice that is available. We can help you with lots of services for... • 1-2-1 help from a DEaf Abuse Support Worker • Support to stop...

If so, tell us of the difficulties you are having by completing our online survey.  Don’t worry it is confidential. This will help us to plan and work with our partners on how best to support deaf women who are struggling to make ends meet.  The deadline to complete...

Resources & Downloads We have recently added a new page on our website: Resources & Downloads. You can now download a PowerPoint or handout information from our past and recent workshops that have been delivered to deaf and hard of hearing women. There are...

Welcome to Melissa, a new football coach for Derby for deaf and hard of hearing women! There are three deaf female football coaches, Karen and Cheryl (coaching in the Alfreton/Clay Cross area) and Melissa (coaching in the Derby city area). They are looking forward to...

Spring Derbyshire is supporting deaf and hard of hearing women to make changes.   This new exciting website was created with funding from Comic Relief in partnership with The Clothworker Foundation and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.  This website shows many videos in BSL...

An article written by Charlotte Carter from Community Care has found that disabled people were nearly three times more likely to experience domestic abuse last year than non-disabled people via The Office for National Statistics data. In the year ending March 2020,...

We are delighted to tell you that we have been successful in our funding bid.  We have been awarded funding for a ‘Sexual Health Service for deaf and hard of hearing women in Derby and Derbyshire’ project that will start from April 2021. This will pay for a part-time...

Deaf-initely Women asked me to write a blog, about my life experience and my journey with Asian Deaf Women Association. I was born in India. At six months old I came to the UK in 1966. I have a big family - five brothers and one sister. My two eldest brothers are...

🌺On Wednesday 13th January we delivered: Taster session in Lip-Reading: Feedback from one of our participants wrote: "Interesting to realise why lipreading is sometimes easier than other times. I think it would be useful for hearing people to try the lipreading...

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Hi, my name is Holly. I am an interpreting student at Heriot Watt University in Scotland. I’ve been on work placement here in Derby for the last 3 months. As part of the placement, I was volunteering with Deafinitely one day a week. I provided general support in the...

Domestic abuse - explaining in brief what it is and where to go for help. Contact Deaf-initely Women if you need more information or help. Or you can have a look on Derbyshire Police website: www.derbyshire.police.uk Look for 'Domestic Abuse' and click on it. Have...

WHO IS IT FOR? For you as a deaf and hard of hearing woman who has a partner or an ex-partner who: Make you feel afraid or frightened? Make you feel controlled? Are jealous and not trusting you? Forces you to have sex when you don’t want to? Tells you what to do and...