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The National Lottery Community Fund – Leaders with Lived Experience

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The National Lottery Community Fund announced £150,000 to three Scottish projects supporting recovery from COVID-19 and tackling issues their leaders have lived experience of dealing with.

These awards, from the largest funder of community activity in the UK, mean Deafblind Scotland, Resilience Learning Partnership Ltd and Umbrella Lane will all be better placed to embed experts by experience in all aspects of their operations. This funding also enables The National Lottery Community Fund, as well as the wider sector, to continue learning about how people with first-hand experience can become leaders, and how funders can support them to do so.

Deafblind Scotland receive funding of £45,518 to support the delivery of their Dare to Dream 2021-2026 strategy. This will focus on building peer leadership skills and opportunities for deafblind people supporting them to working with the Scottish Advisory Group on Deafblindness (SAGOD) as well as engaging with national policy and service developments.

Isabella Goldie, Chief Executive, Deafblind Scotland, said: “Today’s much needed funding will help ensure people with dual sensory impairment can participate in decisions that can make or break their ability to access a full life and to take up their role as active and equal citizens.”

“Deafblind people are amongst the least visible in society. Many are older and unable to connect with life in their communities without specialist support or adaptations to the way that we operate our public services and businesses and we are delighted our lived experience project is being supported by The National Lottery Community Fund.”

For The Love Of…

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Our, For the Love of… Valentine’s campaign is being led by one of our amazing Guide Communicators who has decided to shave off her hair to raise funds for Deafblind Scotland! We know this is possibly a bit too extreme for most, but love the idea of doing something amazing For the Love of…, it could be Deafblind Scotland, it could be in memory of someone or something special to you.

Our drive is to ensure no one is more isolated than need be especially in these very difficult times. By supporting our campaign you are helping us provide vital programs and activities which are invaluable to our members. In doing so you are joining our effort to ensure that Deafblind people know they are not alone and not forgotten.

However you choose to show your love for Deafblind Scotland, thank you for joining For the Love of… You can make a one-off donation or set up a fundraising page and involve your friends and family, click here for the link to our fundraising page, https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/ForTheLoveOf

Let’s make this Valentine’s Day a truly wonderful celebration of all we love!

Deafblind Scotland Spirit Of Christmas

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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, restrictions mean we can no longer meet in groups; play music in venues; or sing collectively.  This Christmas could be different but at Deafblind Scotland we feel there is more we can do together to bring a bit of joy to everyone’s festive season through our ‘Keeping the Spirit of Christmas Alive’ campaign.  Supporting this campaign through fundraising to make a deafblind person’s Christmas less isolated would be one way that you could join us in making this Christmas memorable for all the right reasons.

We celebrated a major milestone in Scotland this year with the 5th anniversary of the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015 which makes it clear that communication and human interaction need to be a right for everyone not a privilege as is often the case for deafblind people. With this in mind, we have focused this year’s celebrations around showing support for BSL through learning to sign ‘Jingle Bells’.

You can join us in this collective effort to ‘Keep the Spirit of Christmas Alive’ by brightening your friends and family’s festive season and of course have some fun along the way.

Please click here for our fundraising pack, and you can see our Youtube video of signing Jingle Bells here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD6jWipeVBo

Please do let our Fundraising team know if you would like to be involved or would like any further information. Contact details are:-

Julie Ritchie, Community Fundraiser, communityfundraiser@dbscotland.org.uk

Sarah Gillen, Trusts and Income Generation Manager, sarah.gillen@dbscotland.org.uk

Glasgow Community Lottery, Yaldi!

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Deafblind Scotland are delighted to be part of the new Glasgow Community Lottery. You can help raise funds for Deafblind Scotland by taking part, tickets are just £1.00 per week, with a jackpot prize of £25,000!

Deafblind Scotland provides a much loved and valued service for the community.  People who are Deafblind (or severely dual sensory impaired) have substantial visual and hearing loss which causes extreme difficulty with communication, information and mobility. Deafblindness can lead to extreme levels of loneliness, boredom, stress, depression and withdrawal.

Deafblind Scotland is an award-winning national charity and Scotland’s principal authority on meeting the complex needs of individuals with acquired deafblindness. Our services include communication access advice, navigating self-directed support, information/formatting services, welfare rights support, accredited training, wellbeing activities, skills development and a specialist guide/communicator service.

We need your help so we can continue to offer and even expand our service. You’ve got to be in it to win it, so sign up here now, https://www.glasgowlottery.scot/support/deafblind-scotland

Thank you for your support and good luck!

Just Keep Going

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We are absolutely thrilled to announce we have been awarded an amazing grant from The National Lottery Community Fund to run our Just Keep Going project. Thanks to players of #NationalLottery, our Just Keep Going project will support the mental health and wellbeing of deafblind people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A selection of deafblind members have been busy filming classes that you can do in your own home. Whether you live in Caithness or Clydebank you will be able to join Deafblind people leading the classes. All videos are subtitled and have BSL interpretation and are available on our Youtube page, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaXkbn5t0p9kd0UibHOfpjQ/playlists

We have Andy’s Crafty Classes, Gentle Chair Exercises with Alison, Arty Anne and Quizzes with Ian, so there’s lots to get involved with and enjoy.

DBS Virtual Charity Cycle

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Our Annual Charity Millport Cycle is going virtual for 2020!
Although we’re not able to actually attend Millport for our annual cycle, we are inviting you to be there in spirit by signing up for our Virtual Cycle! Take part by choosing a 10 mile route of your choice and cycling on Saturday 05 September.
Tickets will raise much needed funds to support Deafblind People throughout Scotland, click here to register.
Please join #TeamDbScotland and share your photos on social media tagging @dbscotland.

Personal Safety DBS

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Here is a link to a great video from The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety working in conjunction with Deafblind Scotland.  The video aims to Teach you the Law regarding self-defence, Reasonable Use of Force and Safe Practical Self Defence Skills.  Hopefully this will increase your self confidence and decrease any anxiety you may have, and any fear you may have about being attacked.

Wake Up and Smell the Roses

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Wake Up and Smell The Roses
Over the next few weeks we will be publishing blogs from Deafblind Scotland members about life during lockdown. We hope you will enjoy, and we are delighted to issue the first blog by Issy, who has taken up gardening during lockdown.
“As someone who was born severely deaf and then went completely blind a number of years ago – one of the side-effects of all of this was that my garden had slowly turned into a jungle.
I didn’t realised how bad it had got until I actually got lost in it, lost in my own back garden how humiliating!
On several occasions I had to call on my retired guide dog and get her to guide me back to my gate or shout for my husband who would come and rescue me. So when lockdown came into being I realised I was going to be spending a lot more time getting lost in the garden and so I decided to do something about it.
Now I get lost in my own wee world of gardening and know that I can find my own way home”.

BDA Scotland Live Stream Show Thursday 02 July at 4pm

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BDA Scotland will have a live stream show on Thursday 02 July at 4pm. The show talks about Physical Well-being and is funded by Scottish Government Well-being Fund. The guests are Trudi Collier and Mitchell Graham.

Please join and discuss Physical Well-being with us, all in BSL. Click on the link to join the show, https://www.facebook.com/BritishDeafAssociation/posts/3589844451077850

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