Working with Two Charities

10th October 2018

The Charities

SEA is currently working alongside two charities, Genie Networks based in Manchester and Deaf Active based in Liverpool. First of all, our partnership will include fundraising for these two charities. We want all of our staff to get involved to try and raise as much money as possible for Genie and Deaf Active. We also want to develop partnerships  with these organisations, who’s work we value as an asset to the deaf children, young people and families.

Genie Networks

Genie Networks is a registered charity supporting Children and Families with deafness across Greater Manchester.  They provide services to families across Greater Manchester.

Genie provide 1:1 Family Support such as Information and Advice, Advocacy Parenting Skills and Training. Genie hosts many Family events. This includes trips to Lego land and a Manchester United football stadium tour. Furthermore, events such as breakfasts clubs and signing tots.

Genies one of the only three deaf family centres in the UK! They have great facilities at the family centre due to having a large reception area, meeting rooms and a playroom.

Events coming up at Genie:

1. Breakfast Club – Saturday 20th October (9.00am-10.30am)
2. Dino Falls Adventure Golf – Saturday 20th October (4.00pm-6.00pm)
3. Pumpkin Picking – Saturday 20th October (12.00pm-1.30pm)

Deaf Active

Based in the Joseph Lappin Centre DEAF ACTIVE offers high quality activities servicing the D/deaf and hearing community – bringing them together and breaking down social barriers.

Deaf Active operates on a theory called “reverse integration”. This is where a non-marginalised group (hearing people) merges with a marginalised group (D/deaf people).’ Their projects and activities are impressively varied, such as:

1. ACTIVE FITNESS – exercise classes and personal training sessions
2. DISCOVERY CAMP – an afterschool club, including team building activities to integrate D/deaf and hearing children.
3. BSL COURSES – accredited for levels 1 & 2
4. STEPPING STONES – help people overcome barriers in finding employment

Check out Deaf Active’s app, called HANDS. It’s high quality and costs just £1.49. Furthermore, it offers easy to follow videos for a variety of word groups and signed songs. It’s very popular and has seen over 40,000 downloads!

Why SEA chose these charities?

These two charities make such a positive difference within the deaf community. Furthermore, many members of the SEA staff are D/deaf. We wanted to work alongside charities that support deaf people and their families as this is also our focus. Consequently, some of our staff and clients have used these charities. So, the SEA team wanted to give back to them.

Finally, we chose these charities because both the Directors of SEA, Hayley and Suzanne have a great involvement in Deaf Active and Genie. Suzanne is on the Board of Trustees for Genie Networks and Hayley is on the board for Deaf Active.

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