- Aim: Increase public awareness of tinnitus and of the support available to manage the condition. Secure 100 million opportunities to see information and reach 130,000 people through a top-quality information service.
- Impact: We achieved more than 300 million media opportunities to see information about our tinnitus work.
Our website www.tuneouttinnitus.org.uk, launched in July 2007, has so far been visited by around 47,000 visitors. We also answered 3,497 Tinnitus Helpline enquiries and distributed 4,000 copies of our magazine Tinnitus Focus to audiologists and other professionals who support people with tinnitus.
We distributed more than 136,000 leaflets about tinnitus through various channels throughout the UK, including GP surgeries and audiology clinics. We held two successful study days for audiologists and hearing therapists to share research methods and results.
- Aim: Increase regional coverage of outreach information services by 20% including through development of a new tinnitus outreach service. Continue to develop RNID’s website as the destination of choice for information on deafness and hearing loss to reach 120,000 visitors a month.
- Impact: Our outreach information team of staff and volunteers increased the number of face-to-face contacts by 17% across the UK to 37,846.
We also made 3,289 face-to-face contacts with people with tinnitus though our outreach information work, a 50% increase on last year. Our website was visited by an average of 116,389 visitors a month.
- Aim: Deliver deaf awareness or start to sign training to 6,000 individual employers and service providers to improve access for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- Impact: More than 6,500 people have received our deaf awareness, disability and deaf awareness or start to sign training, helping to improve accessibility in all types of organisations both in the public and private sector.
We introduced Training Access Points allowing individuals the facility to easily access training and successfully held 25 events throughout the UK.
- Aim: The above aim and impact is available in BSL
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- 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.
Joanne's story
Our Regional Communications and Information team provide information for deaf and hard of hearing people as well as those who are worried about their hearing throughout the country. Joanne is at the RNID stand at the Retirement Show in Earls Court where the main aim is to reach older people who may have a hearing loss and don’t know what to do next.
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people receive our continued support with deafness and other needs with both residential and independent living services across the country.