- Aim: Actively promote safer listening messages by ensuring that 250,000 people take action to protect their hearing. Promote safer listening messages to nightclub customers by building strategic partnerships with 25 nightclubs in the UK.
- Impact: We reached more than 250,000 people by distributing more than 95,000 pairs of earplugs at festivals, club nights and other events, achieving more than 26,000 page views per month to our website www.dontlosethemusic.com. We send out 1,700 eNewsletters per month, promoting safer listening messages.
We have worked directly with a wide variety of nightclubs - including London clubs Ministry of Sound and Heaven - and DJ Magazine to raise awareness of earplugs and tinnitus among clubbers.
- Aim: Ensure the entertainment industry fully complies with the new Noise at Work regulations by March 2008 ensuring that everyone has a safe working environment.
- Impact: The government has delayed the publication of its compliance guidance Sound Advice. In the meantime, we are working with entertainment venues such as bars and nightclubs, including the Luminar chain of night clubs, with information about their duties towards their employees.
- Aim: Invest £800,000 in world-class research to position hearing science as attractive and beneficial to scientists, business and the general public to ensure further investment.
- Impact: More than £800,000 was awarded to our research programme which attracted more than 30 quality research proposals. An independent advisory panel of leading UK research scientists rated many of these as "world class" and four major new research projects have begun.
14 companies worked closely with us to better understand the opportunities of hearing research, with new drugs for tinnitus and protection from loud noise entering the early stages of clinical trials.
In an exciting breakthrough, our grant programme led to the discovery of specific changes in people's genes that make them more likely to lose their hearing as a result of smoking or obesity.
Our ‘Hearing the Future’ conference for 170 members was oversubscribed.
- Aim: Identify and evaluate at least 100 new product designs for listening products, working in-house and with manufacturers, academics and the design community.
- Impact: Nearly 100 industrial design students took up RNID’s challenge to design attractive and innovative hearing protection products. After judging by leading UK design companies, the winning design - an "Ear-card", a unique credit card style solution with compressed hearing protection plugs - was prominently featured in a leading design magazine and the national press.
We launched the UK’s first affordable fully digital listener, the RNID Sonido, which is already outselling the original RNID Crystal by 300%, and selected 30 new products for retail.
- Aim: The above aim and impact is available in BSL
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Jim's story
Jim’s life revolves around music. Since visiting the RNID tent at the Latitude festival, he has become more and more aware of the importance of protecting his hearing. He is now investing in a pair of custom made ear plugs to ensure he doesn’t lose the music he loves.
“I’m very grateful to the Don’t Lose The Music campaign. I have always thought I’ve been good with looking after [my hearing], but I scored 6 out of 10. I made the decision …to improve that score.” Jim
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