YouChoose Hearing aid clinics YouChoose is an innovative peersupport service which enables anyone living with significant deafness to receive support from a personal assistant who is also deaf. It has been working highly successfully in the Midlands and GDA is now helping to bring it to Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire. Whether you are a sign language user, or someone who has become deaf over time and speaks but doesn’t hear, the only criteria is that you feel you would benefit from the regular companionship of someone who understands you perfectly. Our deaf personal assistants are all warm, kind people who are selected on the basis that they have more confidence to manage everyday challenges better and can help you do the same. That may be to help you meet new friends, get fit or simply enjoy shopping trips together. For information about how YouChoose works, please contact the GDA office. 5 GDA has recently added two new venues to its list of more than 20 clinics around Gloucestershire where you can have your aids cleaned and re-tubed: Cheltenham East Community Fire and Rescue Station, Keynesham Road, GL53 7PX on the 3rd Tuesday of every month between 10am and 12pm. Please note that for September only, this clinic will take place on the 3rd Friday (15th September) between 10am and 12pm. Fresh Ground Cafe, 26 Westward Road, Stroud, GL5 4JQ on the 4th Thursday of every month between 10am and 12pm. To find your local clinic or to book onto any of our hearing-aid clinics, please contact the GDA office on 01452 372999 or text 07875 610860. Friendship Circle Summer Party On Tuesday 27th June, over 70 guests came to GDA for the Friendship Circle summer party. This is a free event for anyone with an acquired hearing loss; it's a chance to meet new friends and catch up with old ones, while enjoying a delicious lunch, which this year was provided by Yumma Food. Our thanks to Jacky, Becky, Lorraine, Louise and Jane from our corporate partner, Ecclesiastical, who volunteered their time to support the event and ensure everyone was well looked after. The Friendship Circle will return with its Christmas party on Tuesday 28th November - hope to see you there.
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