Sally Skeldon 100 mile trek

Sally took part in a two day 100 miles

Bike ride on 19
th
and 20
th
June. As
shown in the pictures, she was with a
group of people from Camsight which is
celebrating its 100
th
anniversary.
Camsight very kindly allowed Sally to
raise 450 for CDA which is brilliant. A
Big thank you to Sally for doing this
very worthwhile event also to Camsight
for their co-operation.
Perhaps someone else can do this for
us next Summer as CDA is always
looking for ways to raise money
Thank you Sally, and well done!
JAMIE BILLAM
















Cambridgeshire Deaf Association, 8 Romsey Terrace, Cambridge CB1 3NH
Fax: 01223 411701 Voice: 01223 246237
Email: [email protected] Skype: cdassociation
Website: www.cambsdeaf.org



Summer 2012

CDA NEWS
Message from the Chairperson
Lots of exciting things are happening at CDA at the moment. In this newsletter we
are announcing Deaf Day in Cambridge which will be on the 27th October. Deaf day
will be a day for everyone with hearing loss to come along to find out what is going
on in the local area and different ways of joining in. We will need lots of volunteers
to make the day a success so if you have some time spare and you can help us with
preparing for Deaf day then please get in touch with Jamie. We are also pleased to
announce that Sally Skeldon and Helen Money will be returning to CDA from
Camsight on the 1st of September just before our AGM. We are delighted that the
Supporting People project will be back at our Office again where it belongs. We are
working with the council to prove what a great job we do helping members of the
Deaf community. We want to do an even better job in the future so we will be
collecting information at the Deaf Drop ins and at all the groups and social events
that we run to find out what we need to do better.
We know that there are people out there that we don't help but we want to be able
to help so we want to ask everyone who gets the newsletter to come along to Deaf
Day with friends who are hard of hearing , Deaf , deafened, parents of children with
hearing problems, carers in fact anyone!
Our AGM is on the 3rd of September in the afternoon at 2pm so we would like to
invite you all to come along to that.
With best wishes to everyone
JANIE

Signature Awards
Many congratulations to Jamie Billam. He has won the Signature Award of Regional
BSL Tutor of the Year, for the Eastern region. Jamie will meet up with the other
regional winners, in November, when the winner of the Signature Award for the BSL
Tutor of the Year, will be announced.
This is fantastic news. I know that Jamie really enjoys teaching BSL, and I am sure
that everyone at CDA will join me in sending him our very best wishes.
ANN RATCLIFFE

CDA Office
As this picture shows, on the right -
that Trustees, David Fairey and Godfrey
Palmer have been busy removing the
wallpaper and then filling in cracks with
polyfilla cement. Then a lot of painting
on the ceiling, walls, skirting boards,
frames, radiators etc. We are making
good progress so far but we still have a
lot to do such as putting in new tables,
wiring work, built in cupboards, new
Double glazing windows and new
carpet. By the time the next newsletter
in Autumn comes out, we hope to have
a picture of completed and re-decorated office.
JAMIE BILLAM

CDA NEWS

Deaf Club
Dates for your Diary.......



Cambridge Deaf Club
Cambridge Deaf Club is held on the 3
rd
Saturday of each month. The club meets at
8 Romsey Terrace, Cambridge and is open from 7.30pm to 10.30pm. For more
information please contact CDA (details on the front page)

Jul 21
st
, Aug 18
th
(closed), Sept 15th

March and District Deaf Club
March and District Deaf Club is based at St Peters Church Hall, High Street, March,
Cambs. PE15 9JR We meet on the 1st Friday of every month at 7.00pm to 11.00pm.
All are welcome more information from Godfrey Palmer, 47 Creek Road, March,
Cambs. PE15 8RE Fax 01354 658111 SMS 07801705659

Jul 6
th
, Aug 3
rd
(closed), Sept 7th

Peterborough Deaf Club
The club meets at the Kingfisher Centre, The Cresset, Bretton, Peterborough. PE3
8DX on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 6.30pm to 10.30pm More information
from Simon Richardson email: [email protected] Msn email
address: [email protected]

Jul 14
th
, Aug 11
th
, Sept 8th

Huntingdon Deaf/Hearing Club
All Deaf and Hearing people who are learning to sign or want to polish up or practice
their signing skills are very welcome. This is an informal social evening. at St
Barnabas Church, Medway Road, Huntingdon, Cambs., PE29 1SF on 2nd Friday of
each month from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. For more information, please contact CDA
(details on front page)

Jul 13
th
, Aug 10
th
(closed), Sept 14th


Cambridge Social club
All Deaf and Hearing people who are learning to sign or want to polish up or practice
their signing skills are very welcome. This is an informal social evening. at
Cambridgeshire Deaf Association, 8 Romsey Terrace, Cambridge. CB1 3NH on last
Friday of each month from 7.30pm to onward. For more information, please
contact CDA (details on front page)




CDA NEWS
March Deaf Club
On Friday 13
th
April 2012 we had our 29
th
Annual General Meeting and Election of
Officers. The meeting went well, the officers are still same and one new member
joined the committee, her name is Mrs Elaine Heath.
The gardening was cancelled on Friday 4
th
May 2012 because our speaker cannot
talk during Spring or Summer, because he is very busy. He will probably speak to us
next February. We had some games and chatted instead.
On Friday 1st June 2012 we had a fantastic evening. The committee had prepared
for the Queens Diamond Jubilee Celebration and we had a nice buffet foods, wines
and soft drinks, bunting and some flags aloft. Lots of deaf people came and took
photos, People wore red, blue and white clothes. Ann Ratcliffe organised a Royal
Family Quiz with 60 questions. 8 teams of 4 people played. This was quite a hard
quiz but good fun. The winners were Catherine Palmer, David Cook, Rodney Hopkins
and Carol Knott. Diamond Jubilee Cake was made by Catherine Palmer.










Diamond Jubilee Cake Christine Tarrant, our Chairperson









Enjoying the Buffet Jamie congratulating Christine











Completion of the Royal quiz!! Everyone had a good time


CDA NEWS
March Deaf Club (Cont)

FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
At St Peters Church Hall, High Street, March PA15 9JR.
Friday 6
th
July Social Evening
Friday 7
th
September Guess Photo Game
Friday 5
th
October Ace Chase Game
Friday 30
th
November Christmas Dinner Please see note on below
Christmas dinner will be held on Friday 30
th
November 2012
Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm
Price to be confirmed
Tickets must be bought no later than 12th November 2012
No tickets available at the door and no refunds

Church Services for Deaf & Hard of hearing people in March & District
We had a service on 18
th
December 2011 and Sunday 28
th
February 2012. Thank you
to the clergy of St. Peters Church, March and to the Reverend Charles Dixon for
interpreting, and to his wife Judith for operating the overhead projector.

FORTHCOMING SERVICES: At St Peters Church, High Street, March PE15 9JR.
Services for Deaf people will be on the following Sundays
Sep 30
th
2012 at 4pm Harvest Festival and Dec 23
rd
2012 at 6.30pm 9 Lessons and
Carols
GODFREY PALMER

Peterborough Deaf Club

14th April
We Played Bingo, One line is 7 and Full House is 17. David Kettle had won the
Bingo. Well done.

12th MAY
We held the AGM and there were a few changes. We have changed the time which is
now 6.30pm to 10.30pm (Before was 5pm to 9pm). The Membership fees have gone
up from 3 to 5 per year and the reason why we put up the fee is that we need to
buy paper, ink, and things for games. For OAPs, the Membership fees is half price
which is 2.50 per year.
Purvee Bryant has been elected as a new committee member, thank you Purvee. We
had Cheese and Biscuits after the AGM.

9th June
We played Killer Darts and we all enjoyed it. The players pay 1 to play and the
winner was Salim Ravjani who got 6 prize. Well done

July 14
th
UNO
Aug 11
th
Trip to Hunstanton
Sept 8th Out of this World about Space

You are all very welcome to come to Peterborough Deaf Club and I wish you all an
enjoyable Summer time. Good luck to Great Britain in the Olympic Games!
SIMON RICHARDSON

CDA NEWS

Deaf & Hearing Clubs (Huntingdon & Cambridge)
For the last three months, April, May and June the attendance had been below our average
numbers. Thanks to Janie and Abigail/Kathy & Sue for doing the games which had been a good
fun. July 13
th
will be open as usual but for August it will be closed.
We hope to restart Cambridge sometime in September and it will be called Cambridge Deaf
Social Club. More information will be announced later through website, facebook, posters etc
JAMIE BILLAM

Greek Dancing Group
On Friday evening, the 25th May, fourteen turned up for the Greek dancing lessons
and as usual enjoyed the evening. For those who have not had the opportunity to
learn Greek dancing, we were taught by Anastasia Giagkoudi who used BSL whilst
dancing as well! Anastasia also knows the Greek sign language as her parents are
deaf.
We practised different dance steps which were Fysouni, Kastrinos, Zonaradikos that
we had previously learned. That evening, we did a new dance called Tsakonikos which
is the name of a village in the Peloponnese, a region in Greece.
Greek dancing is a very old tradition. There are different styles and versions some
slow, some quick, some bouncy, some leaps always something new for us to learn,
these are from all the islands and mainland areas.
There are over 4,000
traditional dances that come
from all regions of
Greece.
Half way through the
evening, we stopped when
someone spotted a cobweb
coming down from the
ceiling! Maybe the spider
wanted to watch the
dancing!
Everybody could dance well
although there were some
clodhoppers, we could
not work out if it was Jamie
or Paul, we were told not to
bang the floor!
It was the last evening of Greek dancing but we hope it will start again in September.
We are all very grateful to Anastasia for giving us the lessons, she was very patient
but always with a big smile. Many thanks to Anastasia!!
ELAINE HEATH

Editors note
Yes I agree with Elaine and I think it was a great success and good fun. I just hope it
will restart one day. Thank you Anastasia.
JAMIE BILLAM






CDA NEWS
BSL Pub Meeting in Cambridge (Thursday)
We are now meeting every first and third Thursday of the month. We will be meeting
7.30pm at the Tram Depot pub just off East Road, Cambridge (opposite Anglia Ruskin
University on East Road). We meet just to relax and chat using BSL. Everyone is
welcome whether youre Deaf or hearing, a beginner or a fluent signer. We hope to
see you there! For more details, contact Matthew Faupel on 07779 355983 (SMS) or
[email protected] (e-mail).
MATTHEW FAUPEL

Cambridge Deaf Pub (Saturday)
We changed the group description to "Welcome to Cambridge Deaf
Pub. I would like you to come along to meet new people who are
deaf and hard of hearing or hearing who can use BSL (British Sign
Language) at any levels to warm up or get practice or just
have fun. You're welcome to join and meet up in the
Cambridge Deaf Pub and also you can bring your friends.

EVERY MONTH to meet up at 18:30hrs in The Prince Regent, Cambridge.
Dates: 28
th
July
Where:
The Prince Regent
91 Regent St, Cambridge CB2

In September on Saturday 29
th
, we are moving to another pub called The Avery Pub.
There is a website you can look in http:/gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-in-cambridge/avery-pub/
ADAM LINDSELL

Peterborough Deaf Pub(Tuesday eve)
Meet at The Gordan Arms, Oundle Rd, Orton Longueville, Peterborough. PE2 7DH
Every 1st Tuesday of every month from 7pm until closed. Invite your friends.
DEBBIE POWELL

CDA Training Courses

BSL LEVEL ONE
One year course leading to the nationally accredited
Signature Level One Certificate.

Venue:- 8, Romsey Terrace, Cambridge CB1 3NH

COMMENCING: Friday 21
st
September 2012
Time: 10.00am to 12.00 noon

Fax: 01223 411701 Voice: 01223 246237
Email: [email protected]






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Editors News
I think the Summer has finally arrived as I am sure everyone feels a bit warmer
despite all the rain we have had! I hope you are planning to go somewhere for your
holiday? It is going to be a busy Summer for London with the Olympic games. Let us
hope that Team Great Britain will do well and get as many medals as they can.
Perhaps the best haul ever?
Supporting People Services is moving back to CDAs office which is very good news.
This means Sally Skeldon and Helen Money will now rejoin us as part of CDA. The
Trustees have been busy redecorating the office and it should be nice when it is all
done. Talking about Sally, you can see what she has been up to recently on the front
page of the newsletter, she has raised 450 for the Deaf community by taking part in
a 100 mile bike ride. That is brilliant. Well done Sally.
We have set up a new project in Peterborough for Monday mornings every two weeks
and its called Coffee morning in ASDA. I have been along a few times and it is really
a very pleasant get together to chat with free drinks. Everyone who is interested in
the Deaf Community are welcome. Also I hope to set up a new Deaf Social in
Cambridge and to work with a few people to get this project up and running.
Janie has mentioned in her report that there will be a Deaf Day and AGM. Please do
come and support us for these important events for the Cambridgeshire Deaf
Community.
On behalf of all readers, I would like to wish many congratulations to Andrea
Richardson, a very popular interpreter, who married Jonathan last April.
Finally, I would like to say a big thank you to all the well wishers for the many cards I
received for my recent illness. I am overwhelmed and really appreciated that people
are thinking of me and also members of my family who have been through difficult
time.
JAMIE BILLAM












CDA NEWS
Fenland Deaf Drop-in
On 5th April, Happy Easter to everyone. Many deaf people came
included Anna (Our Voice) enjoyed Hot Cross Buns and won several
raffle prizes included four Easter Eggs. And Happy 60th Birthday to Carol
Knott on 12th May.

On 17th May, We gave a lovely bunch of flowers to Peggy Rodwell, because
Peggy has been in and out of Hospital and she has not been well for a long time.

On 7th June, Two days after the Queens Diamond Jubilee, I gave a lovely cake
to everyone including Catherine Palmer who gave us some of her Diamond
Jubilee cake which she made and lots of raffle prizes. We did enjoy a good laugh
because Christine Tarrant made lots of jokes!
MICHAEL PAPE
Drop-In Dates for your Diary
Fenlands Drop-In
12pm to 2pm every three weeks (not always) at The Christian Centre, Upwell
Road, March, Cambs. PE15 9DT. For further information please contact
Christine Tarrant using CDAs address or Tel no; (details on front page)
Jul 12
th
, Aug 9
th
, Sept 13
th
, Oct 11
th

Cambridge Deaf LunchTime Group
11.30am to 2.30pm every third Wednesday of each month at The Deaf Centre,
8 Romsey Terrace, Cambridge. For further information please contact Jamie
Billam using CDAs address or Tel no: (details on front page)
Jul 18
th
, Aug (closed), Sept 19
th
, Oct 17
th
Huntingdon Deaf LunchTime Group
12.30am to 2.30pm every first Thursday of each month at the Huntingdon
library, Princes street, Huntingdon. PE29 3PA
For further information please contact Jamie Billam using CDAs address or Tel
no: (details on front page)
Jul 5
th
, Aug (closed), Sept 6
th
, Oct 4
th


Peterborough Deaf Drop in/Coffee Morning
We have made changes recently to Peterborough Deaf Drop-in. Instead of
having the Drop-in every week, we have made this every two weeks on
Wednesday lunchtime. And we have set up a new Coffee morning every two
week on a Monday morning. The first Coffee morning was on 28
th
May and we
were encouraged by a good number of people turning up. Everyone who is
interested in the Deaf Community is very welcome and we will provide free
drinks.
For those Deaf people who need support, you will need to go to the main
Peterborough Deaf Drop-in where there will be support from a Social Service
support worker there to help you. Ky Dai is the Co-ordinator for Peterborough
Deaf Drop-in sessions and Debbie Powell is the Co-ordinator for the Coffee
Morning sessions
Please see below the lists of dates for the drop-in and Coffee mornings.
JAMIE BILLAM

CDA NEWS
















CDA NEWS
Cambridgeshire County Council Sensory Services
Sensory Service Team, Admundsen House, 18b Compass Business Park, Stocks
Bridge Way, St Ives, Cambridgeshire PE27 5JL

Tel (Voice) 0345 045 5221 Fax 01480 498066 Minicom 01480 376743
SMS (text) 07766 898 732
Email [email protected]

Referrals to the team
For calls to the Sensory Services Team to go via Cambridgeshire Direct the
Contact Centre via 0845 045 5221 The advantage of this change is that
contact can be made to the team over extended hoursfrom 8.00am to 8.00pm
Monday to Saturday as opposed to the current weekday office hours, and that
there will be advisors will be able to provide simple advice or signposting where
appropriate
The Sensory team can still be contacted as above

Sensory Support Team, Peterborough Social Services
The Sensory Support Team contact details are:
Voice: 01733 747474
Minicom: 01733 746141
Fax: 01733 746140
SMS: 07917 133170
Email: [email protected]

Ask for a referral to the Sensory Team.

Supporting Deaf People Service
We work with D/deaf, hard of hearing, deafened, deafblind people living in
Cambridgeshire. We aim to ensure that people are enabled to live as
independently as possible.
We can help with:
Day to day issues Budgeting Correspondence Developing social skills
Accessing a wide range of services Emotional support Welfare benefits
Equipment advice

One of the Team is usually available at the Drop-in sessions across the County.
The workers are sign language users.

Camsight, 167 Green End Road, Cambridge. CB4 1RW

Phone 01223 420033
Mobile 07565910971
Fax 01223 501829
Editors note
As from 1
st
September, Supporting Deaf People Service will move to
Cambridgeshire Deaf Association and please use contact details at the front of
the newsletter for time being till further notice

CDA NEWS
Deaf Church News

The Ministry Among Deaf People congregations and the team of
volunteer signers wish all readers of CDA News a happy summer
and hope as many of you as possible will be able to take a
break and enjoy a happy holiday.
The Peace of Christ be with each and everyone of you.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Regular Church Services for the Deaf are held in Cambridge, Godmanchester,
March and Soham as follows:
Cambridge Deaf Church [CDA Centre for Deaf People] in sign language
On the 1st Wednesday of the month we have Bible Study at 11am, followed by
a Holy Communion Service at 12 noon.
The next bible study and church services are July 4
th
, September 5
th
, and
October 3
rd

[Note: there is no Deaf Church in August].

Godmanchester [sign supported]:
The 4th Sunday each month a service in St Marys Parish is sign supported,
either:
Sign interpreted Parish Eucharist services at 9.45am: [at St Marys Church,
Chadley Lane], or
Sign interpreted Praise Service at 10.30am [at St Anne's School, London Road].
Next Services are: July 22
nd
[10.30am], August 26
th
[9.30am], September 23
rd

[10.30am], and October 28
th
[9.30am].

Hemingford Grey [sign supported]
On the 1
st
Sunday each month at St James Church the Family Praise Service is
sign supported.
Next services are August 5
th
, September 2
nd
, and October 7
th
.

March Church Services [sign supported]:
The next service date is 4pm September 30
th
.

Soham Parish Church [sign supported]:
The 2nd Sunday each month, St Andrews Parish Church 10am Parish Eucharist
service is sign supported for deaf people joining the local hearing congregation
for worship.
Next services are May 13
th
, June 10
th
.
.
For further information email: [email protected] SMS 07749 702924
SMS 07749 702924
CHARLES DIXON



CDA NEWS
Sign Post


Deeping Baptist C hurch, 42 Bridge Street, Deeping St James, Peterborough,
PE6 8HA
We welcome you to our monthly Sign Post meetings. Doors open at 5.30 pm.
We close around 10 pm. Bring your sandwiches for tea at 6 pm - we provide tea
and coffee.
After tea - a time to socialize, games or demonstration talk. Afterwards a short
talk from the Bible then tea/coffee, and social time.
Sign language supported, also loop system and live typing available.

PROGRAMME
Saturday 28th July - Games and summer food. (a small charge for food)

Saturday 25th August - Bring your oldest book and tell us about it.

Saturday 29
th
September TBA

For information about Sign Post - see Sign Post website -
www.sites.google.com/site/signpostdeeping

Hope to see you at Sign Post.
NIGEL FRISBY

NEW!! DEAF CHRISTIAN GROUP.
This is a small BSL group for Deaf Christians or anyone who would like to find
out more about God. Everyone very welcome.

We will sign a short Bible passage and then discuss what it means for us. Pray
for each other. And OF COURSE have plenty of refreshments and chat!!

First meeting is Tuesday 24th July 1pm - 3pm. Then the THIRD TUESDAY of
every month, 21st Aug, 18th Sept, 16th Oct, 20th Nov, 18th Dec.

At Huntingdonshire Community Church Centre, 84a High Street, Huntingdon.
PE29 3DP.

Any questions, please text Jan Smith 07596 652 077 or email
[email protected]
JAN SMITH







CDA NEWS
BSL Walks
Grandchester Sunday May 20
th
10.30am
This short walk was organised by Helen Perry. Thirteen people turned up and
the weather was a bit cool and very overcast. The walk was very pretty and
Helen gave us a talk about the history of the Grandchester area. We walked
past Jeffery Archers house and some of us stopped and admired the house! We
then walked by the riverside before we ended our walk at The Orchard for
something to eat and drink. It was a very pleasant and enjoyable walk and a big
thank you to Helen (& Malcolm) Perry for arranging this.
JAMIE BILLAM

Treasure Hunt Sunday July 1
st
1.30pm at St Catherine College,
Cambridge
The Treasure Hunt was
organised by the lovely couple
Pam and Dennis Pope. Eighteen
people went along to St.
Catherines College. We went
into one of the colleges room
and had tea/coffee with lovely
cakes. Rebecca Andreo and
Pam Pope made the cakes
shown in the pictures. You can
also see Elaine is trying to eat
all the cakes!! Afterwards Pam
and Dennis gave us a talk
about the history of the room
we were in and also explained what we have to do for the Treasure Hunt with
the help of Anna Rickyards interpreting.
We all split into four people per group and we were given A4 size instructions
and clues which included many questions and the was a section to guess where
the photos were taken. The weather was perfect as it was fairly sunny and bit
warm with only one interruption of rain.

CDA
Annual General Meeting

Monday 3
rd
September 2012
At 2pm

At 8 Romsey Terrace,
Cambridge
CB1 3NH

All welcome
CDA NEWS
BSL Walks (continued)



It took all the groups just under two hours to complete the Treasure hunt. The
winning group were Pauls Pirates - Rebecca, Anna, Annas boyfriend and Paul
Langford. The group Three men and a Lady, David Fairey, Sally Clelland,
Malcolm Perry and Brett Chitty won the wooden spoon!
It was a great fun and I am sure everyone thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon
and our big thanks to Pam and Dennis for doing all the hard work in organising
the Treasure Hunt and also thanks to Anna & Rebecca for interpreting etc.
We must do this again!
JAMIE BILLAM







CDA NEWS



For further information about the event, take part or to book a stand
please contact: Event Organiser, Cambridgeshire Deaf Association, 8
Romsey Terrace, Cambridge. CB1 3NH
Tel: 01223 246237 email: [email protected]