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Volunteering England targets deaf volunteers
By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 10 May 2007
Volunteering England is launching a sign language introduction to its website to help address concerns that volunteering is not accessible to deaf people.
The move follows a survey in which almost two thirds of respondents said volunteering organisations are not well prepared to work with deaf volunteers.
The poll, conducted on the Volunteering England website in March and April, saw just 20 per cent of the 374 respondents answer ‘yes’ to the question ‘Do you think volunteering organisations are well prepared to work with and support deaf volunteers?’ A further 16 per cent answered ‘just about’.
The video introduction, launched to coincide with Deaf Awareness week, outlines Volunteering England’s support services for people working with volunteers, and signposts potential volunteers to volunteer centres.
Volunteering England chief executive Christopher Spence said he hoped the video, produced in conjunction with the British Deaf Association and funded by the Volunteering Hub, would act as “a gesture of welcome to deaf visitors in their preferred language”.
He also said he hoped it would encourage other organisations to improve their accessibility. “It is very important that potential volunteers and those working with them are able to access information in a meaningful way,” he said.
The website also contains eight case studies involving deaf volunteers. A spokesman for Volunteering England said: “not all volunteer-involving organisations can use sign language, but that's also the case when deaf people visit their local bank or doctor's surgery. Everyone's deafness or hearing impairment is different, and people find ways to communicate in many different ways.”
Commission for the Future of Volunteering member Tom Levitt, who has worked as a consultant to improve deaf people’s access to services and information, said: “Initiatives like this will do much to give deaf people, so often excluded from the mainstream, the confidence to volunteer within our communities."
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Jennie Gillions, 9 June 2008, 14:26
I used to be the Volunteer Co-ordinator/ Health Worker for a Deaf and Hard of Hearing charity - I am not Deaf myself but used to train volunteer-involving organisations on including Deaf volunteers. Most organisations, once they realised involving Deaf people was not that financially restrictive and did not mean becoming fluent in BSL, worked really hard to be inclusive. This is a great and long-needed initiative, but there are a lot of Deaf people for whom the idea of volunteering (and therefore Volunteering England's website) is not even on the radar - I hope there's sufficient, accessible, correctly communicated information in place so Deaf people know the video exists and can benefit from it.[Report this post]