Sound Barrier Star Awards

Specsavers Hearing Centres started working with Hearing Dogs for Deaf People as their national charity in 2008. Since then, our staff have been actively fundraising and helping to raise awareness of the charity at all new store openings, raising over £40,000 in the first two years of the partnership.

‘Specsavers Hearing Centres are fully committed to providing funding for, and raising awareness of, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, helping them to meet the demand for these special dogs,’ says Dame Mary Perkins, co-founder of Specsavers.

Specsavers Hearing Centres launched the Sound Barrier Star Awards in 2009, with support from Hearing Dogs from Deaf People. The awards recognise outstanding achievement within the hard of hearing and deaf communities.

The 2010 winner will receive a luxury river cruise holiday with Take Me Too and a £1,500 Specsavers voucher. To nominate your sound barrier star, download the Sound Barrier Star Awards pdf. (256k)

Specsavers will donate £5 to Hearing Dogs for Deaf People for every eligible entry received.

Download Sound Barrier Star Awards pdf

Specsavers Hearing Centres began supporting Sound Seekers as their international charity in 2008. Sound Seekers is a registered charity, dedicated to helping deaf and hearing-impaired children in the poorest communities of the developing world, by supporting projects that:?

• advance understanding of their needs
• improve access to health services, education and social support
• enable them to avoid, or overcome, the effects of deafness and ear disease

In 2010 Specsavers Hearing Centres pledged to raise £35,000 to build a secondary school for deaf children in Kenya.