CAMTAD

Cambridge Campaign for Tackling Acquired Deafness

FREE VOLUNTEER TRAINING COURSE

A Thursday morning, six-week training course for volunteers to help the hearing impaired starts on 10th January 2002. CAMTAD, Cambridge Campaign for tackling acquired deafness, runs hearing help sessions where volunteers clean, check and retube NHS hearing aids and advise on regular maintenance and best listening conditions. They also loan out equipment. They can help with hearing doorbells, telephone, television and household alarms. Training courses cover such subjects as the ear, types and causes of deafness, NHS hearing aids, procedures for assessment, communication methods and so on. If you are interested in the training course or would like to discuss it further please phone, fax or minicom Sue Hempstead on 01223 460616 or write to her at Buchan House, Buchan Street, Cambridge CB4 2XF. We have facilities for hearing impaired volunteers on the course and there will be wheelchair access to the course. Training is compulsory for our volunteers but there is no obligation to volunteer at the end of the course. Most of our volunteers help at monthly sessions but many help in other ways.

We are most grateful for your co-operation. We are a small charity with limited means and depend on our volunteers to exist. We have many excellent people including one lady in her nineties but even she can't go on forever.

Yours sincerely

Sue Hempstead

63, HIGH ST, SWAFFHAM PRIOR, CAMBRIDGE. CB5 OLD TEL 01638 741 337

Once more the year has galloped past, and it is time to think of Christmas. I know that the shops have been full of the trappings of the festive season for months, but we have to draw a line somewhere.

As usual, the Trustees invite applications for our Christmas grant from those who consider that they qualify, and if you know of anyone you think is a deserving case who might not apply on their own behalf, please let me know.

The majority of those eligible will be our pensioners, but, as always, the Trustees will consider applications from anybody in genuine need.

Requests should be addressed to me, or to any of the Trustees, and I make my usual plea for early responses. It makes a lot of extra work if applications arrive only two days before Christmas. Many thanks to those who have heeded my requests in the past.

Yours faithfully,

S.G. Hewin

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