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Equality Act 2010 states that all businesses are legally obliged to make reasonable adjustments to ensure their service is accessible. It’s socially responsible: Demonstrate your commitment to corporate social responsibility by ensuring you are welcoming to all of your customers, regardless of disability. Ask ‘are your churches always full? Are there any spare chairs? Well, maybe a hard of hearing person could have been sitting on that chair if you had made them feel welcome/included/ valued . Apart from the on-off and volume switch, many hearing aids have a third switch, ‘T’, which makes it work like a tiny radio receiver. The sound from the microphone passes through an amplifier to a loop of wire which goes round the church. This loop of wire acts like a transmitter aerial and anyone switched on to ‘T’ can pick up the signal and hear the voice at the microphone, even if the person is many feet away from the speaker. We call this an induction loop. If you have a loop in the church make sure you have a sign that clearly shows this fact in a visible place as a person comes into the church. It can be easy for a deaf person to feel isolated in a group where everyone is talking. This is essential so lip-speaker can prepare for your event. JOKE - A deaf man went to a crematorium for a funeral of a friend. The crem had a brilliant loop system,. He could hear every word. He really felt that he was included in the service. He went home and he said to his daughter when you get married next summer I want your wedding to be in the Crem, because the loop in our church is rubbish and I want to be able to hear every word! * * People often wonder why there is a chaplain with Deaf people when there isn’t one for blind people or people with mobility issues. The reason is because many Deaf people use BSL and so the ministry I carry out is to a linguistic minority. There is a Deaf Church just as there is a Polish church! * Bristol Deaf Church in BSL with voice-over if necess