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Deaf Awareness Week at Mansfield Odeon 7-13 May 2012
7th - 13th May 2012 is Deaf Awareness Week. As part of this Mansfield Odeon is planning to screen at least one
subtitled film every day. If successful it could help them to provide more subtitled screenings in the future. Full details of
the films to be included have not yet been finalised, but we'll post them here once they are.
Old News
Subtitled Film Screening - Tintin in 3D - 24 March 2012
Using a grant from the National Deaf Children's Society we've booked a subtitled screening of The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn at Broadway
Cinema, Nottingham on 24th March at 11:00. More details on the events page.
Fun Club - 24 March - SESSION CANCELLED
The session on 24th March has been cancelled (as it clashed with the film screening - see above)
Dates for the next 6 months are available on the
Fun Club page.
Panto
Tickets for the signed performances of Cinderella at Nottingham Playhouse and Sleeping Beauty at Nottingham Royal Centre are
now available.
Further details are available on our
events page.
17 Sep 2011 - NDCS Fun Day, East Midlands - White Post Farm
The aim of the NDCS Fun Day programme is to bring together families with deaf children. As well as this, an activities programme has been created to make the event a special day for your deaf child(ren). NDCS want deaf children to feel positive, to try new things, be challenged, have fun, and make friends. At the 2010 Fun Days, over 90% of the deaf children and young people said ‘I have tried something new today’.NDCS fun days are also a great opportunity to meet the NDCS staff and local groups based in your area.
For more details and to register for a place, please click here
Hearing Dogs for Deaf Children
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People are pleased to announce that following the success of the Team Hearing Dogs pilot project, the charity will continue to place hearing dogs with deaf children, on a small scale. They are currently recruiting families to take part.Click here for more details. or visit www.hearingdogs.org.uk
BSL events at the Science Museum, London
The Science Museum has an exciting programme of FREE family events led by amazing Deaf presenters.
Suitable for Deaf and hearing audiences. The presenters will use BSL and they will be accompanied by their interpreter voiceovers.
You do not have to book for these events, however if you would like more information please contact family.programmes@sciencemuseum.org.uk
Or the website
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/bsl
24 Feb 2010 - NDCS Mystery shoppers training day, Alexandra Palace, London
As part of the Me2 project NDCS want young deaf people,aged 14-18 to help them inspect clubs to see if they are deaf friendly by becoming a Mystery Shopper! They will tell you more about the Me2 project during this event and train you how to use the mystery shopper checklist! During the afternoon to say thank you, all trainees will be take to the ICE for some ice skating fun! After the training day you will be asked to visit local Me2 clubs which could be sports, arts, scouts anything as a Mystery shopper to see if they are deaf friendly – using your newly learnt skills!In return for making agreed visits and completing the checklist you will be rewarded with High Street gift vouchers to thank you for your effort! This also looks great on your CV and records of achievement too, plus you will be making a real difference!
For more details and an application form, please click here
26 Feb 2010 - NDCS MultiSports Day, Peterborough
This will be at the Werrington Sports Centre in Peterborough. Attendees will take part in a range of sports activities led by experienced coaches.For more details and an application form, please click here
12 June 2010 - FREE TICKETS for Special Children's Day at LONDON ZOO with DAYTRIPPERS
Daytrippers would like to invite you to the Special Children’s Day at London Zoo on Saturday 12th June 2010. For the third year in a row Daytrippers are pleased to announce that they are offering FREE tickets to the annual Special Children’s Day event at London Zoo. This offer is open to children with disabilities, special needs or life limiting illnesses and their ESSENTIAL carers (all other adults and siblings will be expected to be self-funding - though tickets will be available at a reduced rate (children £8.00 adults £12.00) if booked in advance through Daytrippers).26/6/10 - Drayton Manor Trip Cancelled
Unfortunately our trip to Drayton Manor had to be cancelled because there weren't enough people who wanted to go
15/5/10 - NDCS Family Fun Day
We organised a coach to the Family Fun Day at Hatton Country World in Warwickshire on 15 May
13/3/10 - Dukes Barn
We had a great day at Dukes Barn in the Peak District, taking part in climbing activities in the morning and canoeing in the afternoon. Even the weather was great - pictures coming soon
20/3/10 - Swimming
Everyone enjoyed our free swimming session at Rushcliffe Swimming Pool, West Bridgford.
19/12/09 - Christmas Party
We had a great time bowling for our christmas party. We had four lanes of various ages. We'll put some pictures up in the next couple of weeks.
22/11/09
The Christmas Party is coming - this year we're going bowling at Megabowl (Clifton Boulevard) on
the 19th December. For more information see the
events page. Hurry - we need your response by 1st July.
NDCS (National) is organising a Siblings Day on 12th December, for hearing children with deaf
brothers or sisters. For more information see
the NDCS website.
27/06/09
We have 8 more places available to go climbing (on the 4th and 11th of July 2009), and we've opened it up to children under 11 - details on the events page. Hurry - we need your response by 1st July.
13/06/09
Details of the climbing events on the 4th and 11th of July 2009 can now be found on the events page.
15/3/09
Shirley is unable to commit to running the fun club sessions, so Gayle has kindly volunteered to take over.
The committee would like to thank Shirley for all her hard work in organising and running the fun club over the past
five years.
As a result of falling numbers, we are also looking at whether the fun club is something that people still want. We are going look at the attendance of the sessions between now and June, and make this decision. If you want us to keep it running, please come to the sessions and give your support, and have some fun.
15/3/09
Shirley is unable to commit to running the fun club sessions, so Gayle has kindly volunteered to take over.
The committee would like to thank Shirley for all her hard work in organising and running the fun club over the past
five years.
As a result of falling numbers, we are also looking at whether the fun club is something that people still want. We are going look at the attendance of the sessions between now and June, and make this decision. If you want us to keep it running, please come to the sessions and give your support, and have some fun.
8/06/09
We've got some exciting events coming up - our summer trip is provisionally
booked for the 11th August, and there's an opportuinty to try your hand at
climbing in July. More details on these coming soon.
Please note that the date of the June fun club has moved to Saturday the 20th.
15/03/09
There are details of the new dates for the fun club on the fun club page , and details of some interesting events on the events page.
