A Tuesday morning six week training course for volunteers to help the hearing impaired starts on 18th January. CAMTAD, Cambridge Campaign for tackling acquired deafness, runs hearing help sessions where volunteers clean, check and re-tube 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 0 1223 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 is a lift etc. if you are wheelchair bound. 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

Organiser

Registered Charity