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Top tips to include volunteers with hearing loss or deafness

This resource provides practical tips for supporting volunteers living with hearing loss or deafness. It highlights key considerations to improve accessibility, communication and inclusion within volunteer roles.

The guide supports organisations to create welcoming and accessible environments, ensuring volunteers can participate fully and confidently in their roles.

Benefits for volunteer managers

  • develop more inclusive volunteering practices for people with hearing loss or deafness
  • improve communication and accessibility
  • support equitable volunteer participation and engagement
  • support an inclusive organisational culture.

How to apply this resource

This resource is most useful when reviewing inclusion practices, adapting volunteer roles, or strengthening communication approaches to support volunteers with hearing loss or deafness.

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