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National Tinnitus Week: 19-25 February 2007
Not everyone knows what tinnitus is and that there is help
available. We’ve been working with the British Tinnitus
Association on activities for National Tinnitus Week to raise
awareness. There will be events around the country, and the
results of our tinnitus survey will be published.
Find out more
about the week.
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Get fit while raising money
You may be thinking about getting healthy in the new year.
Taking part in one our fundraising events is a great way to do
it while making a difference to people’s lives.
Bupa Great North
Run: 30 September 2007.
This half marathon starts at Newcastle
and finishes at South Shields. We have a limited number of
running spaces available. To be one of our runners fill in our
online enquiry form.
Find out more about the Great North Run.
Overseas challenge events.
You could take the challenge of a
lifetime such as trekking the Great Wall of China or cycling
from London to Paris.
Find out more about our challenge events.
If you don’t like running or trekking why not hold you own
event?
Fundraising ideas. Other ways to give.
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Celebrate St George's Day
We’re one of three charities working with an organisation
called Enjoy England, to encourage people to celebrate St
George’s Day. From 5 February until St.George's Day, 23 April
2007, there will be fundraising activities in all 50 English
cities. The activities will raise money to help support our work
and the work of the other two charities.
Find out how you can
get involved with the celebrations.
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Rights and DDA advice
Our legal casework service can give you information and
advice on your welfare rights and the Disability Discrimination
Act (DDA).
We can:
- tell you what your legal rights under the DDA are, and help you if you've been discriminated against
- tell
you what benefits you could get, and help you get them
- represent you in courts and tribunals.
Find out more about our
casework service and how we can help you.
Read our
factsheets and
leaflets on welfare rights and the DDA.
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Learning to lipread? Watch this face
Watch this face is a
practical guide to lipreading. It includes photographs, personal
experiences and exercises to practise. It can either be used as
a back up to classes or on its own.
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Look out for the latest One in Seven
Don't miss the
February/March issue of One in Seven. We have a celebrity
interview with Stephanie Beacham, a product review on alerter
systems and a special feature on home cinema. You can also catch
up on news from the campaign for cinema subtitling.
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laterlife interest
The above article is part of the features section of laterlife.com
called
laterlife interest.
laterlife interest
contains a variety of articles of interest for visitors to
laterlife.com written by a number of experienced and new
journalists.
It includes both one off articles and also associated
regular columns of a more specialist nature such as
Healthwise,
Talkback,
Gardener's Diary,
and a beauty section called
Looking good
in later life.
There's also
'It could
be you' by Maggi Stamp laterlife's counsellor on human
relationships.
Also don't forget to take a look at our regular IT
question and answer section called
YoucandoIT
by IT trainer and author Jackie Sherman.
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