Royal National Institute for Deaf People

There are so many.

The RNID website, we'll put a link in the show notes, has an entire page on all of the

financial

benefits

and allowances that you get.

RNID is great for any kind of information.

Resources.

They

Gosh, this is really interesting.

This, it was from the RNID, by the way.

Love RNID.

RNID ambassador here.

Um, I would obviously hope that it's 18% would not be open.

W- is that what...

We don't normally read letters from the mail, but this one I thought was maybe appropriate because it might just ring a bell.

It's from Victoria Bowman, who is the Director of Policy at RNID.

Like most of us, she says, I don't think twice before hopping on a bus or a train or to work to meet friends or to do a spot of shopping.

However, for millions of people across the country who are deaf or have hearing loss, barriers on public transport can make everyday journeys feel impossible.

Challenges like inaccessible live travel information and a lack of deaf awareness from transport staff can cause huge amounts of stress and anxiety and even force people with hearing loss to stop using public transport altogether.

These are the shocking findings in Clear Signals, a new report from RNID which found widespread accessibility barriers on public transport in the UK including buses, trains, trams, underground services and ferries.

It's unacceptable that in 2026 people with hearing loss are facing these barriers simply because they want to get from A to B.

As the report makes clear, solutions do exist but it needs a coordinated response.

both did SEN? Yeah, I worked in a school in Peckham initially, and then when

I relocated to Fannet, I ended up working for the RNID.

So we've both got a background in sign language.

I mean, I initially learned it from my dad when I was a tiny, tiny kid because he had learned the alphabet, so I've always liked a bit of signing.

So that was really interesting.

And then I headed up a brilliant team at RNID, National Institute for the Deaf, that was action on hearing loss for those that know in the sector that know about the very unusual kind of name change to and fro.

And so that was trust.

major donor and corporate and had a really fantastic team there um and then I'd had I had two babies two children along the way and I was on my second maternity leave I was going to go back to that role and I was offered a director of fundraising role basically more locally um that I took