Who Are We?

Sounds Right was launched during National Deaf Awareness week in 1999. Since its formation it has tried to work within its original mission statement which was and still is today :

‘To work towards improving awareness, access, understanding and fellowship in all areas and issues associated with hearing loss.

To create situations which empower all people with hearing loss to have freedom of choice, along with the knowledge and skills which will enable them to have a full and equal participation within our community’.

The lives of all those involved with our organisation have been touched, either directly or indirectly by deafness and the issues and barriers that hearing impairment presents to them.

One such person who was instrumental in the setting up of Sounds Right was Celia Targett who is, unfortunately, no longer with us. Please visit her tribute page to read more about how she touched all of our lives : Celia Targett

The Management Committee

Gill Wilson

Chairperson : Gillian Wilson - Gill was the founder member of Sounds Right setting up the group in 1999 to provide much needed services to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people in North Lincolnshire. She was, herself, profoundly deafened by childhood meningitis.

Gill works from her home base in North Lincolnshire as a freelance trainer and development consultant with a broad range of organisations both locally and throughout the UK. Her specialist interest/area of work is in the promotion and delivery of equality and diversitiy awareness raising training.

Gill's first language is English and she is a student of British Sign Language (BSL).

Anna Gladwin

Treasurer : Anna Gladwin - Anna joined the group when it was set up in 1999 and took the role on as treasurer.

Anna has severe conductive hearing loss, which she has had since birth. She was fitted with a bone-anchored hearing aid in Sept 1998 which replaces the body worn aid. Anna relies on lip-reading and spoken English is her first language.

Since joining Sounds Right she has passed the CACDP BSL Stage 1 exam and CADCP Communication and Guiding with Deafblind people Level 3 exam and currently studying CACDP BSL Stage 2. The communication skills learned through these courses have helped a lot within both her work and social life.

Anna has finished her diploma in nursing specialising in learning disabilities. Promoting Deaf Awareness was difficult during Anna's studies but she is now qualified and working for Sense with deafblind people of all ages and now has more time to spend in taking Sounds Right forward.

Jean McGoverne

Co-Secretary - Jean McGoverne - Jean lives in Scunthorpe and has been interested in sign language for some time and passed BSL level 1 some 14 years ago, whilst working with colleagues who had hearing loss. She has more recently retaken level 1, and attended several of the sign language workshops run at the WEA. She has also attended the Deaf Awareness course tutored by Gill Wilson at John Leggott College

Having been involved in admin for many years and recently retired, Jean felt she would like to give some support to the Sounds Right organisation and was co-opted onto the committee in August 2007.

Steve Lloyd

Committee Member : Steve Lloyd - Steve joined the group through a Community Challenge scheme run by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young which supports local organisations by providing volunteers for tasks in the local community.

Not having been involved in any voluntary organisation in the past, his main goals with Sounds Right have always been to get Sounds Right into the technological era and keep abreast of new developments which can take the group forward. This web-site is one of the results of his endeavours

Jayne Parker

Committee Member : Jayne Parker - Jayne was diagnosed in September 2007 with Peripheral Neuropathy, which causes her a lot of pain, so much so that at the moment she cannot work.  She has always been interested in BSL since being a teenager but never had enough time to do something about it.  Since being ill, she took the opportunity to learn British Sign Language.

She has now completed the BSL Level 1 course and is currently studying for BSL Level 2.  She joined Sounds Right after doing a taster course in January 2009 and has been hooked ever since.  She feels honoured to have been accepted onto the committee and looks forward to the future within Sounds Right.