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A Huge Volunteering “It’S Literally the Best Thing I’Ve Thank You Ever Done” How You Have Helped Us Continue Changing Deaf People’S Lives Supporting Your Needs Issue 63 SPRING 2021 £1.75 when sold The magazine from Hearing Dogs for Deaf People Laptops and PLUS Catch up with clever face masks sponsor dog Juno The unexpected lessons we’re teaching Living with a language our pups processing disorder How mobile apps can help with communication A huge Volunteering “It’s literally the best thing I’ve thank you ever done” How you have helped us continue changing deaf people’s lives Supporting your needs The Hearing Link Shop, run by Hearing Dogs, offers a range of carefully designed products that support hearing and communication. From deaf awareness tools, to assistive technology and hearing aid maintenance items, there is something for every need. Find out more: shop.hearinglink.org Terms apply. Postage and Packing is charged extra. Visit shop.hearinglink.org for further details. Contents Spring 2021 08 LASTING LEGACY How a gift in your 20 Will can change a life, page 22 Regulars 04 Newshound Our thanks, appeal updates, hearing Welcome! loss services, sound bites and more We hope this issue will add a little sunshine 08 Overcoming loneliness to your day. It comes with our thanks for the Philip’s moving story and how hearing dog wonderful support you continue to give us. On Clay has helped him rebuild his shattered life page 22 Sam describes how much she values 10 Training our dogs her hearing dog Oscar, “an amazing gift made How we’re adapting to lockdown rules and by someone in their Will”. Read more about giving our dogs transferrable skills how we’ve overcome the challenges of the 16 Fundraising Supporting pandemic to continue our dog training and Learn how our corporate partners helping deaf people on page 10. Elsewhere, and fundraisers are helping Hearing Dogs discover how hearing dog Clay has helped 24 Ask the experts Philip Downs rebuild his shattered life, and how you can sponsor Our expert answers your communication your needs a pup to help create more vital partnerships on page 15. Finally, and dog-related questions ‘paws’ for a cuppa with Pam on page 26. Enjoy the issue. 26 Paws for coffee Actress Pam St Clement on dogs, lockdowns The Hearing Link Shop, run by Gill Lacey Editor and her fantasy dog walk companion Hearing Dogs, offers a range of carefully designed products Features 12 Lockdown partnerships that support hearing and Meet three people whose lives have been communication. magazine is named after Hearing Dogs’ very first dog, Favour. transformed by their new hearing dogs Hearing Dogs for Deaf People Royal Patron 14 Puppy sponsorship The Grange, Wycombe Road, HRH The Princess Royal Lee Walker tells us why he’s all smiles Saunderton, Princes Risborough, Registered charity in England From deaf awareness tools, to HP27 9NS and Wales no. 293358 and thanks to sponsor pup graduate Juno T 01844 348100 Scotland no. SC040486 Useful contact details assistive technology and hearing Text relay 18001 01844 348100 Fundraising: 01844 348109 18 Awareness aid maintenance items, there is (for deaf and hard of hearing) Member of UK Council on Volunteering: 01844 348122 Living with a language processing disorder E [email protected] Deafness, Assistance Dogs (UK), Media enquiries: 01844 348137 (LPD) and how hearing dog Alvin makes something for every need. hearingdogs.org.uk Assistance Dogs Europe and Trinity’s life easier Cover photo Sam and Oscar by Assistance Dogs International Paul Wilkinson 20 Volunteering spotlight Zoe Simmons on what inspires her and makes Articles and features printed in Favour are not necessarily the views of the Charity but are the views expressed by the writers. We welcome your comments. NEXT ISSUE being a volunteer dog trainer so worthwhile Find out more: Look out for the Advertisements: Hearing Dogs for Deaf People cannot be liable to any person for loss or damage incurred or suffered as a result of his/her accepting or offering to accept next issue in 22 Lasting legacy goods or services contained in any advertisement reproduced in Favour. Readers should Autumn 2021 The special bond between Sam Pugh and shop.hearinglink.org make appropriate enquiries before incurring any expense or contractual obligation. Oscar, who was funded by a gift in a Will Produced by: Jo Evernden Graphic Design joevernden.com Terms apply. Postage and Packing is charged extra. Visit shop.hearinglink.org for further details. hearingdogs.org.uk Spring 2021 FAVOUR 3 Newshound Updates from our latest appeals and news about our favourite dogs – we sniff out the stories that matter to you APPEAL UPDATES SUPPORT Thank you for helping £27,000 deaf people THANK YOU for supporting our appeal in the autumn Against a backdrop of lockdowns and social distancing, 2020 2020 issue of Favour. Today highlighted more than ever before just how important our our hearing dogs are needed more than ever. By donating hearing dogs and other personalised services are, as well as to this appeal you’ve helped how valuable this support is to deaf people to raise £27,000 towards the training and partnership of he coronavirus crisis You’ve been with us every pancakes, to a 28-minute more hearing dogs, to help prompted a record step of the way. We’ve seen silence and 28-minute deaf people escape isolation T number of enquiries some truly heroic efforts dance off. Or Maxine Clare and leave loneliness behind. for hearing dogs, as deaf from supporters like: Harro and Joanne Price-Moxom, people looked for help to Dorsch from Cheshire – who posted a series Rayane reconnect with the world already a volunteer puppy of ‘squares’ games on and Diesel around them. We also saw a trainer, Harro took on the Facebook to raise £680. spike in demand for our other virtual London Marathon to Whether you donate to services. It was unparalleled raise over £2,000 for Hearing Hearing Dogs, give your in our 39-year history. We Dogs as well as becoming a time as a volunteer, sponsor remain committed to helping virtual speaker, giving talks a hearing dog puppy, have as many of these people as to clubs and groups meeting pledged to leave a gift in we can for as long as they online. Gemma Bean and your Will, are one of our £40,000 her son Ethan, who walked corporate partners or major need. We can only do this OUR CHRISTMAS APPEAL 2020 with your kind support. a mile every day of February donors, or follow us on was very special and told the The pandemic and all and posted us a cheque for social media, your support story of Rayane, a young deaf that goes with it has meant over £1,200. Gemma Higgins means we can continue boy who wrote a letter to many changes to the way we and her son Alex, who raised transforming the lives of Santa asking him to give work, both for our volunteers over £480 undertaking a deaf people now, and long another deaf child a hearing looking after and training our different challenge every into the future. So, a huge dog – so their life could be pups, and for our hearing dog day of February, from thank you to you all from changed just as Rayane’s was partnerships new and old. baking cupcakes and making all of us at Hearing Dogs. when he got Diesel. 4 FAVOUR Spring 2021 hearingdogs.org.uk NEWS WHY SHOP VIA AMAZONSMILE? In a recent three-month period we received £1,063.25 from AmazonSmile all at no additional cost to the shopper. So thank you to everyone who shopped via AmazonSmile and selected Hearing Dogs as your preferred charity. Next time you shop on Amazon, if you log in through AmazonSmile (smile.amazon. co.uk) instead of the main Amazon site, you can instruct Amazon to make a donation to Hearing Dogs every time you buy. There’s also an AmazonSmile app available on both iOS and Android devices. It’s as easy as one, two, three: CHALLENGE 1. Sign up to AmazonSmile via your web browser Hearing Dogs 2. Open the latest version of the Amazon shopping app 3. Go to the main menu, find ‘Settings’, features on and tap ‘AmazonSmile’. BBC Children in Need f you tuned in to BBC One during explains: “I found life very difficult October or November last year, before I met Waffle. I felt isolated Ithere’s a good chance you’ll have and lonely, but Waffle completely PM’S POINTS OF seen Hearing Dogs as part of the changed my life and I feel so lucky LIGHT AWARD BBC’s Children in Need coverage. to have her. In the latter part of 2020, the BBC “Taking on something like the INSPIRED BY CAPTAIN SIR TOM MOORE, 97-year-old Grace ‘Pip’ Know, told the stories of some of Hearing Rickshaw Challenge is something I from Wrexham, completed a sponsored Dogs’ child partnerships as part of its would have never dreamed of doing walk of over 10 miles with her hearing BBC Children in Need programming, before I met Waffle, but now I know dog Amy, raising thousands of pounds to show the difference that Children that I can do this. I hope that my for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. in Need funding makes. story helps to inspire other young In a personal letter to Pip, This included the story of 16-year- people like me.” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: old Sarah Kazendeh and Waffle, The Rickshaw Challenge very “Congratulations on completing your her hearing dog of nine years, who nearly didn’t happen. Thanks to fundraising walk with your hearing took part in The One Show’s popular Matt Baker and the incredible Team dog Amy! Rickshaw Challenge.
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