Celebrating Connection, Communication & Deafblind Awareness Week
As we celebrate Deafblind Awareness Week 2025, it’s more important than ever to share the stories that highlight the daily realities of those living with both sight and hearing loss. Deafblindness doesn’t define a person but the barriers in society often do. This week is about raising awareness, understanding the challenges, and more than anything, […]
Introducing our newest team member: Andy Hues
This week we shared some exciting news as we welcomed Andy Hues to our team at Lipspeaker UK. With over 25 years of experience in sales and a diverse background spanning multiple industries, Andy is bringing a wealth of knowledge and expertise to our organisation. His experience in project management will play a key role […]
November Roundup
It’s been a busy month here at LUK and we’ve loved every minute of it. Not only have we broken our own record for the highest number of bookings in any week, ever… but we’ve done it twice! Operations aside, our month started with an all-new Halloween edition of our Lipspeaking challenge and so many […]
Hampshire Business Awards
Last night, the annual Hampshire Business Awards took place and we were proud to be finalists in two categories. Although we didn’t win, just being nominated alone was an absolute honour. It was one of those losses that still felt like a win. 2024 has been an incredible year for Lipspeaker UK. Our services have […]
Lipspeaker Training Information
Recently, we opened our interest list for lipspeaker training in 2025. It’s fantastic to see so many of you wanting to train as professional lipspeakers. Our bookings team receive a consistently high level of requests for lipspeakers – it keeps them VERY busy! We’re proud to be delivering the new and updated Signature Level 3 […]
Raising Awareness in Midwifery
Yesterday we were privileged to be visiting the school of nursing and midwifery at Oxford Brookes University to run an awareness session with student Midwives. We run a specialist maternity service here at Lipspeaker UK. Our Director, Lesley Weatherson, is the only Qualified BSL Interpreter, Lipspeaker, and Midwife in the country. This places us in […]
City Lit Deaf Day 2024
Lipspeaker UK will be at City Lit Deaf Day 2024. Come along and find us in the John Lyons Theatre Read more about the event here: https://www.citylit.ac.uk/deaf-day
Congratulations to Jay!
He’s only gone and done it! Level 6 BSL Award
MS Teams Glitch
It was a rather unusual Friday 13th for Lesley at Lipspeaker UK HQ this month. Working on Microsoft Teams (MS Teams), everything seemed like a normal remote assignment. Lesley had her lights in place, her headphones in and her background was clear. Having worked for various Government departments for over 20 years, Lesley is familiar […]
Norfolk Deaf Festival 2023
Taking place on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th July, The Forum hosted the 2023 Norfolk Deaf Festival. Lipspeaker UK were very proud to both host a stall and to showcase lipspeaking at the festival for the first time! Did you see us?
