GDA welcomes new faces We've welcomed a few new faces to GDA recently; * Chris Gardner joined the Board of Trustees late 2013 but in November 2015 was elected as the new Chair, taking over from Chris Averiss. * Jonathan Moffitt is another new face on the Board of Trustees, having joined in November 2013. * Lucy Lea came onto the Board of Trustees in November 2015. Lucy is the Equality and Diversity Manager at Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust. * Peter Maynard also joined the Board in November 2015. He is also a solicitor at local law firm Davis Gregory. * Christina Snell is another new trustee, having joined the Board in November 2015. Christina is a former Age UK Gloucestershire chief executive and now runs her own community celebrant business. * Mike Sadler is a familiar face at GDA, having previously been on the Board a few years back as well as being a prominent figure within the Deaf Community. Mike rejoined the Board back in November 2015. * Sue Sewell is the latest member of the GDA team. Sue came to GDA from Q-Care so already has a wealth of experience supporting Deaf people. Sue will be playing a key role in the GDA office supporting Mary, Emma and Sam in their roles. Deaf awareness video named in top 100 NHS Stories Back in 2014 we were approached by Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust to produce a video which would aid their mission for the Trust 'to connect with and provide kinder, more empathetic services to patients with hearing loss.' Working with Lucy Lea and Katie Parker from Gloucestershire Care Services, we produced a powerful and authentic film featuring a number of our hard of hearing services users, which is now being used as a training tool for the organisation's staff and volunteers. In addition to the film being extremely well received by NHS colleagues, on Thursday 4th February our video was featured as one of the top 100 NHS 100 stories as compiled by Listening into Action. Lucy Lea said "Working with GDA has been a hugely positive experience: the team brought real depth of knowledge and great creativity to produce a film that touches hearts and changes minds about how we work with people with a hearing impairment. The film is already having great success in our organisation. Colleagues say it has given them an excellent insight into what life is like for people they know who are deaf and hard of hearing, and that this will change how they care for and work with people with hearing loss" The whole process of putting this film together with the team at Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust has been an extremely exciting one for GDA, and one that is now opening many more doors for the charity. If you know of any businesses of organisations who might be interested in being more deaf aware and making their business accessible to people with hearing loss, then please do put them our way - we'd love to speak with them. 6
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