Thank you
The following trusts are just some of the generous and visionary Trusts and Foundations who have supported our work over the past two years.
Constance Travis Charitable Trust
The Constance Travis Charitable Trust made a very kind donation in support of important work based at the UCL ear institute by Dr Sally Dawson and Dr Emily Towers, which is aimed at finding the gene responsible for age-related hearing loss.
F A Alford Charitable Trust
The F A Alford Charitable Trust supported vital work by Dr Sally Dawson and Dr Emily Towers to better understand a key gene inside the ear. They are currently supporting the revolutionary research of Dr Marcelo Rivolta at the University of Sheffield, which is working towards new stem cell therapies for hearing loss.
Freemasons Grand Charity
The Freemasons Grand Charity is supporting a pioneering project by Dr David Furness at the University of Keele to tackle age related hearing loss by improving our understanding about the role of fibrocytes for hair cell regeneration. This project aims to contribute to our efforts to reverse hearing loss by developing ways to regenerate damaged hair cells.
Galanthus Trust
The Galanthus Trust is very generously supporting the work of Phd Student Nicole Stanley at the UCL Ear Institute to better understand age-related hearing loss by investigating the role and activities of integrins (cell surface receptors) within the auditory system.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation is very kindly supporting Deafness Research UK’s Information and Advice Service, which provides impartial advice and trusted information about hearing problems to many thousands of people across the UK.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Mark Master Masons
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Mark Master Masons funded the purchase of important assessment equipment at the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre. This is allowing staff to assess auditory brainstem response in deaf children and ascertain whether their inner ear (or ‘cochlea’) processes sounds normally.
H B Allen Charitable Trust
The H B Allen Charitable Trust made a grant towards the purchase of a state-of-the-art laser scanning microscope at the University of Oxford. This cutting-edge piece of equipment will allow researchers at the University to help improve the functionality and effectiveness of cochlear implants.
Herbert and Peter Blagrave Trust
The Herbert and Peter Blagrave Trust funded equipment at the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre that will improve the Centre’s ability to reach people who are less able to travel and offer better support to deaf people with significant abnormal speech patterns.
John and Lucille Van Geest Foundation
The John and Lucille Van Geest Foundation provided grants to support the development of new hearing tests that could be used within audiology clinics to improve the way that hearing aids are designed and fitted. This work is being carried out by Professor Brian Moore and Aleksander Sek at the University of Cambridge.
Jones 1986 Charitable Trust
The Jones 1986 Charitable Trust supported a project at the University of Nottingham to ascertain whether two cochlear implants provide better hearing and sound discerning than one. This research was very timely given the recent NICE guidelines advocating the provision of two bilateral cochlear implants for children.
Kirby Maurice Laing Foundation
The Kirby Maurice Laing Foundation made grants towards the development of new hearing tests by Professor Brian Moore and Aleksander Sek at the University of Cambridge. These new tests will be usable by mainstream hearing clinics and will radically improve the design and fitting of hearing aids for hearing impaired people.
Muirhead Charitable Trust
The Muirhead Charitable Trust funded important pieces of equipment at the UCL Ear Institute that will help greatly with the researchers vital efforts to better understand hearing loss and find ways to regenerate damaged hearing.
P F Charitable Trust
The P F Charitable Trust is very kindly supporting the work of Deafness Research UK and its unceasing efforts to support people with hearing problems through medical research and education.
Rosetrees Trust
The Rosetrees Trust is supporting the development of new hearing tests by Professor Brian Moore and Aleksander Sek, as well as efforts by Professor Andy Forge at the UCL Ear Institute to improve our understanding of tissue relationships in the inner ear and the mechanisms of hair cell development and hair cell loss.
Sheffield District Hospital Charitable Trust
The Sheffield District Hospital Charitable Trust funded an upright microscope at the University of Sheffield. This is enabling researchers to improve our understanding of how sound travels through the ear to the brain and will underpin hair cell regeneration work.
Souter Charitable Trust
The Souter Charitable Trust has very kindly supported our unique programme of national research on childhood deafness. The programme aims to understand the causes of childhood deafness, develop new and better treatments and find a cure.
Ted and Dorothy Banfield Trust
The Ted and Dorothy Banfield Trust recently supported the purchase of a laser scanning microscope at the University of Oxford. The microscope is essential to new research taking place there into the improvement of cochlear implants.
Zephyr Charitable Trust
The Zephyr Charitable Trust kindly supported our Information and Advice Service which aims to provide advice and support to the millions of people across the UK who suffer from deafness and other hearing impairments.
