Year: 2013

We have been working for several years to improve the service we give to the centres that deliver our qualifications. We count on the honest feedback you provide at our meetings, through our surveys and when you contact us. We use the information you give us to improve our qualifications, service and support products. Each year we ask you to tell us how we are meeting your expectations in Customer Service Survey.

Today marks the beginning of our nationwide search for exceptional individuals, groups and organisations who are working to improve the lives of deaf and deafblind people throughout the UK and Ireland.

We have been counting down the days until nominations open for the 2013 Signature Annual Awards and it is almost here. From tomorrow you will be able to nominate in all eight categories. So look out for the launch on our website.

With only two days to go until the launch of the 2013 Signature Annual Awards we take a look at the story of last year’s winner in the category of Teacher of the Year. Perhaps your teacher deserves recognition, why not nominate them when nominations open online on Thursday 14 February?

We are excited to tell you that there are now only four days to wait until the launch of the 2013 Signature Annual Awards.

Over the next three days we will remind you of some of the previous winners and their wonderful stories. In the past four years we have received hundreds of amazing nominations and the panel have often found it tough to choose the winners.

Who will you nominate this year? The 2013 Signature Annual Awards will launch on Thursday 14 February. Watch this space…

In March we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Recognition of BSL. We want to know how life has changed for Deaf people in the past ten years and are inviting Deaf BSL users to tell us about their experiences.

The Signature team is excited to learn of plans for Belfast to host the World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness in September 2014.

To mark the 10th anniversary of British Sign Language (BSL) being officially recognised, we are organising a parliamentary reception at the House of Commons on behalf of the BSL Alliance. The alliance includes Signature, National Deaf Children’s Society, British Deaf Association and the Royal Association of the Deaf.

The Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) have launched a formal consultation exercise on their proposal to establish a Further Education Guild.

The London 2012 Games gave many deaf people the opportunity to participate as Games Maker volunteers and ceremony performers as well as to attend as spectators.