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Charity Greatwork TH ISSUE Autumn 2014 The magazine from Hearing Dogs for Deaf People £1.75 when sold “ “This charity is doing such great work Real life Pauline Quirke on the Turns ouT importance of you can TeaCh an our work olD Dog new Tricks Matchmaking The Hearing Dogs way PLUS Tips for communicating AWAR ENESS with deaf people Find out how Doggy extras John Barrowman Brand-new coped when he went Kids Corner Deaf for the Day Autumn 201422 | In this issue… 23 18 Regulars 22 4 | A dog’s life Welcome! The latest news including: Autumn is upon us, so while the nights draw Hearing Dogs’ co-founder donates Photo: Paul Wilkinson in, it’s time to snuggle up on the sofa with pup; 50th issue facts; fundraising some inspiring stories in this – our 50th – updates and more issue of Favour. We’ve encountered many 10 | You and your dog heroic dogs over the years, Dog accessories and Sam and Daisy are no different. Meet them 24 | Get involved locally on page 20. Find out how our hearing dogs are Meet our pups and fundraise for us matched to their recipients on page 12, and see 26 | Get involved at work how John Barrowman managed when he went How companies give their support Deaf for the Day (page 18). Younger readers will 32 | Paws for coffee enjoy our Kids Corner on page 22, while we hope 32 Pauline Quirke chats with Favour our fundraising ideas will motivate you. After 34 | Ask the experts all that, put the kettle on and relax with Pauline Mark Edgar on hearing loss Quirke, our latest celebrity ambassador, and her dog Bailey. Enjoy the issue, and thank you for your continued support! Features Gill Lacey Editor 12 | The art of matchmaking Get behind our latest appeal Next issue Look out for 14 | By word of mouth Favour magazine the next issue Tips for communicating with deaf is named after in Spring 2015 Hearing Dogs’ very people and those with hearing loss first dog Favour. 16 | Grabbing the headlines Hearing Dogs for Deaf People Royal Patron Useful contact details Headlines from Favours of the past The Grange, Wycombe Road, HRH The Princess Royal (voice and minicom): Saunderton, Princes Risborough, Fundraising Buckinghamshire, HP27 9NS Registered charity in England and 01844 348148 18 | Deaf for the Day Wales no. 293358 and Scotland Volunteering John Barrowman experiences T 01844 348100 (voice & minicom) no. SC040486 F 01844 348101 01844 348100 how it feels to have hearing loss E [email protected] Member of UK Council on Deafness, Media enquiries www.hearingdogs.org.uk Assistance Dogs (UK), Assistance 01844 348137 20 | Real life Cas and Sam, Joe and Daisy Cover photo of Pauline Quirke by Dogs Europe and Assistance Dogs Paul Wilkinson International 28 | Volunteers in the spotlight Articles and features printed in Favour are not necessarily the views of the Charity but are the views expressed by the writers. Terrence and hearing dog We welcome your comments. Dottie’s special bond 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 goods or services contained in any advertisement reproduced in Favour. Readers should make appropriate enquiries before incurring any expense or contractual obligation. 30 | Legacy giving Produced by 90 Walcot Street, Bath, BA2 5BG. www.jppublishing.co.uk How you can help us in your will 3 www.hearingdogs.org.uk Autumn 2014 FAVOUR NewsA Views dog Updates ’ s We sniff life out the stories that matter to you… at a meeting called the Human- Companion Animal Bond that I organised in 1980 for the British Small Animal Veterinary Association. Minutes before, Leo, with his finely tuned antennae for interesting people, had just met Babs Wright, then vice-president of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. “‘Babs is interested in the hearing dogs that the American Humane Association in Colorado have just trained,’ he told me. Babs asked me what I thought Bean’s pup will become one of our about training dogs in the hearing dogs UK to act as ears for deaf people. And that’s the happy accident that led to Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. PUPPY POWER “Babs, helped by her husband Paul, created the infrastructure – let’s call it Family circle the corporate identity. I found a training location, a trainer, Co-founder Dr Bruce Fogle is donating one a placement counsellor of his puppies to become a hearing dog and enough money to keep our heads above water. A vet, Trevor Turner, gave BRUCE FOGLE SAYS: “One of I have had. Bean is a calm, us space at his kennels. my dog’s gorgeous pups is equable being from the A retired police dog handler, joining Hearing Dogs. Bean’s healthiest of ancestors. Tony Blunt, was employed as litter of nine was intentional. Cast-iron bowels. Never even our trainer and Gill Lacey, I added 900 miles to my car’s the slightest itch. No history now Editor of Favour, joined odometer taking her on four in her family of the cancers us as our people person. successive days from London Goldens are prone to. And Money came from many to a sun-dappled field in she has great joints. sources, but especially from Gloucestershire to meet her “Her litter is the result of Pedigree Masterfoods. beau. Hearing Dogs for Deaf some planning: choosing “We want everyone People, on the other hand, the dad, blood-testing to associated with Hearing was more of an accident. Let know when Bean was about Dogs to feel part of an me explain. to release eggs, and extended family. That’s why “Bean is the fifth Golden arranging afternoon cover at my son Ben Fogle is involved, Retriever my wife Julia and my veterinary clinic so I could why Babs and Paul’s daughter high-tail it to Cheltenham. Faith Clark is chair and why “Hearing Dogs came into I’m happy that one of my “I’m happy that Bean’s being more by serendipity. I’d ‘dog-children’, Bean’s affable invited Leo Bustad, the pup, will contribute his affable pup will contribute to charismatic Dean of an enthusiasm to such a this wonderful organisation” American vet school, to speak wonderful organisation.” 4 FAVOUR Autumn 2014 www.hearingdogs.org.uk News Naga tees off – with a little help APPEALS HUGE THANKS Thanks to everyone TH who has donated to one or more of our appeals in Favour, FACTS helping to raise more than £1 million. Thank you for your wonderful STAR SUPPORTER support. Here’s how you made a difference in just the last two years: • Esther Rantzen’s My Hole in one! Best Friend Appeal – foundation50 assessments £47,638 were completed on dogs BBC JOURNALIST Naga Munchetty celebrated • Jocelyn Tack and Bass’ in training between her new single-digit handicap of nine by More Than A Hearing competing in a charity golf day in aid of Hearing April and July Aid Appeal – £28,232 Dogs for Deaf People. • Sally Taylor’s Break the Naga is a huge dog lover and both her parents Soundbarrier Appeal use hearing aids, so she was thrilled to be asked to – £34,232 help raise funds for the Charity and show off her • Phil Biggs and Marsh’s impressive golfing skills at The Oxfordshire Golf Let Us In Appeal – £24,388 50 Club near Thame on 1 July. • Claire Jones’ Puppy puppies entered training “I’m very conscious of hearing loss since I spend at The Grange between Boom Appeal – so much time wearing an earpiece,” she said. £33,093 1 April and 30 June “I was delighted to be asked to support the charity golf day and completely fell in love with a gorgeous Cocker Spaniel who helped me tee off! AWARDS I hope that this event will raise funds to help FIFTY Hearing Dogs train more clever little puppies to PRINCESS ROYAL A dog welfare change the lives of deaf people across the UK.” offi cer burns 50 calories The charity golf day, which was organised by TO ATTEND AWARDS vice captain Steve Smirthwaite for Club captain walking a dog for We are delighted to 15 minutes! Rob Daniels, raised over £24,000. announce that our Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, will attend our Hearing Dogs Awards on PUPPY BOOM 8 October, to be held at 8 Northumberland 50,000 Appeal pupdate Avenue, London. This Our 50,000th supporter event recognises some record was added in 1997 THANKS to an outstanding response of our remarkable from supporters, our Puppy Boom Appeal partnerships as well (featured in the last issue of Favour) far as the work of our exceeded its £23,000 target – achieving amazing volunteers. Tickets cost £100; £33,093 – to make a very significant there is a 10% discount 50th contribution towards training the 40-plus The 50th registered for a table of 10. A limited hearing dog was a black puppies born since the beginning of this number of tickets are Retriever cross named year. Thank you so much! available at a 25% Ben adopted from NCDL discount for hearing dog recipients and Brighton in 1987 Breeding volunteers. Contact scheme events@hearingdogs. supervisor org.uk; 01844 348139. Claire Jones with pup Our Royal 50 Patron Volunteer puppy socialiser Marje Pilkington has cared for over 50 hearing dog pups since 1991 5 www.hearingdogs.org.uk Autumn 2014 FAVOUR News Victoria (left) and Hayley sign “happy to help” VOLUNTEERING STARS CHARITY STAFF’S TOUR DE FORCE Hearing Dogs’ Volunteering Manager, Victoria Leedham, and Hayley Simpson, a dog trainer at our Beatrice Wright Centre in East Yorkshire, were volunteer Tour Makers for the Tour de France Grand Départ in Yorkshire in July.
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