Welcome to deaf-initely women
Deaf-initely Women is run and governed by deaf and hard of hearing women. Deaf-initely Women serves all deaf and hard of hearing women in Derby, Derbyshire and beyond.
We give each other emotional strength to help us to cope with our working and family lives and provide opportunities for deaf and hard of hearing women to gain confidence and experience new things. Our group includes all deaf and hard of hearing women from the age of 18+ and with varying degrees of deafness and communication needs.
Stronger together!
please note
During this difficult time, all our events and activities are cancelled/postponed during March and April.
All other future events will be confirmed nearer the time, please keep checking updates on Facebook or Twitter.
Workshops and classes
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Work/Volunteer for us
We could not run our activities without the help of our amazing volunteers and staff. Would you like to make a difference too?
About Deaf-initely Women
Deaf-initely Women brings deaf and hard of hearing women together. Getting together helps us grow in confidence and we gain support from each other.
How to become the new you!
Do you feel isolated? Do you want to feel more independent and confident?
Brillant deaf and hard of hearing women!
We are always busy running events, classes and workshops for our members. Find out what we have been up to.
Deaf Women Matter!
Deaf-initely Women has successfully obtained funding from the Big Lottery Fund to fund an innovative project: Deaf Women Matter! Skills for Life project. The purpose of this project is to enable deaf and hard of hearing women to:
Build confidence
Become emotionally and financially stronger to cope in their personal, working and family lives.
Take up opportunities for to gain new experiences
Take up work and volunteering opportunities
Latest News
Cooking with less sugar – ZOOM ONLINE
Watch video in here... https://www.deafinitelywomen.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CookingLessSugarFinal2.mp4
Deaf-initely Women adapting the change from face-to-face to online
Adapting the change from face-to-face to online In response to Coronavirus, we are adapting the way we provide our services to providing events, classes and workshops online. One of our funders, the National Community Lottery Fund has provided funding for the Deaf...
www.hearingaid.org.uk interview with Molly O’Brien
The Interview Sessions: Molly O'Brien - One of the superwomen behind the Deaf-initely Women Charity Molly O'Brien talks to Hearing Aid UK about how driven she and her colleagues are to supporting and inspiring women who may be feeling or have been discriminated...
April Newsletter 2020
Our latest newsletter. DW_Newsletter_FlashnewsApril20 v5
Deaf-initely Women Community Support Group
Definitely Women have created a new group for women who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing and any hearing loss. Every Thursday 2-3pm - we will be around on Facebook group but most of us will be using Zoom - more private and able to see each other with subtitle....
Performance Management Report End of Second Year
Our latest up to date on Performance Management Report End of Second Year 31.01.2020.
Life at home – by Rachel Shaw
A short blog about life at home.... How things have changed so quickly, before all this coronavirus became big news. It all started when our middle son Adam started having a mild cough but well enough to go to school and we thought nothing of it. (Just so you know, he...
BSL Zone for daily coronavirus news updates
BSL Zone, in conjunction with ITV Sign Post, have started bringing daily coronavirus news updates in BSL. https://www.bslzone.co.uk/covid-19-info
New facebook group
This difficult time for everybody, we just want to share and let you know - although the events and activities are cancel/postponed - we still like to keep in touch...please do keep in touch, as we will be working from home. We are considering making another facebook...
Yoga with Kavita
Amazing photos of last week workshop: Yogo with Kavita: Kavita Chana. Deaf and hard of hearing women were thoroughly enjoying themselves. They had full communication access with loop system, electronic notetaker and BSL/voiceover....
March Newsletter is out!
Sign up for FREE newsletter by signing up on this website here.DW_Newsletter_March20 v3
One of the staff did the good deed of the day!
We are all so proud of Suzie, who is Office and Volunteers Administrator for Deaf-initely Women. She gave a homeless man a hot cup of tea and sausage cob this morning on her way to work...... "You should seen his face. It was priceless!".....What a wonderful kind gift...
Free Legal Advice
Thanks to everyone who made the Legal Advice day possible for deaf and hard of hearing people to seek advice. Thanks to Association of Lipspeakers; Chesterfield Citizens Advice; Communications Unlimited; Deaf-initely Women; Derbyshire Law Centre; Derbyshire Unemployed...
Free Legal advice on Saturday 1st February by Aga Latif
https://www.deafinitelywomen.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DWFLAD1.mp4 For deaf and hard of hearing people "Hello my name is Aga Latif from Deaf-initely Women. We want to let you know, Derbyshire Law Centre, Deaf-initely Women and BDA finally agreed new date for...
Funding Success! Tampon Tax Community Fund
Deaf-initely Women is pleased to announce its funding success from The Community Foundation for Staffordshire as part of the Tampon Tax Community Fund. Thank you CFS! We will be bringing back Kellie Moody to put on another successful workshop on how to apply Christmas...
The highlight of Deaf-initely Women in 2019!
Few photographs to highlight the last year events, although there are too many to add on here! The feedbacks from these various events, classes, workshops were all positives with few suggestions for improvement. Deaf-initely Women hope everyone enjoyed themselves,...
Happy New Year for 2020!
We hope you all had a lovely break over Christmas and New Year. We are all back in our office from next week and we will have a lot to organise for more events, workshops, classes up and running this year. We will be sending out newsletters for February edition - so...
Derbyshire County Council – Live Life Better
Merry xmas everyone!
Just to let you know that we are closing our office on 13th December and we will be re-opening on 9th January. We should have a lot of fresh new events, workshops and classes throughout next few months. Most important message to all of you, is to keep warm and be...
New Relay for Deaf UK
New NGT is out! Called 'Relay UK' I've downloaded the app...has anybody tried it yet? New mobile/tablet phone communication tool for deaf and hard of hearing people to ring hearing people. #relayuk #ngtlite #ngt #deaf #hardofhearing #deafinitelywomen #communication...