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New BSL Courses – September 2025

Are you looking for a BSL course in Wales?

Our new Level 1 Family Class,  Level 3, 4 and 6 courses will be starting in September 2025.

Following a successful pilot course last year, with children as young as 8 learning BSL alongside their parents, our Level 1 family course is back again this year.

Level 1 Family Course £410 (including exam fees)

Level 3 Course £1095 (including exam fees)

Level 4 Course £1145 (including exam fees)

Level 6 Course £2106 (including exam fees)

Our prices are the most competitive in Wales.

A range of classes are available, face to face, live online or through a pre-recorded distance learning course.

Interested or want to know more, email sarah@deaf-friendly.co.uk

By |2025-07-10T14:14:33+01:00July 9th, 2025|

Celebrating Our Win: The “At Your Service” Customer Service Award

We are beyond excited to announce that we have won the At Your Service Award in The Small Awards!

Now in it’s ninth year, The Small Awards is a nationwide search for the UK’s greatest small firms, across all sectors. It is organised annually by Small Business Britain, which champions and supports the nation’s 5.5 million small firms.

The At Your Service Award – awards the best small businesses in the UK, with a track record of serving their target customer set.

This recognition isn’t just about us—it’s about our amazing team, our clients, and the impact we’ve been able to make in the world of Deaf Awareness and British Sign Language (BSL). For over 20 years, we’ve been dedicated to providing the highest standard of Deaf Awareness training across the country, and this award is proof that our commitment to excellence is being recognised.

When we first started Deaf Friendly Ltd, our mission was clear: to break down communication barriers and create inclusive environments for the Deaf community. We’ve been fortunate enough to work with lots of different companies, schools, and individuals, providing tailored Deaf Awareness training and face-to-face BSL courses.

From the beginning, our focus has always been on quality and empathy. Whether we’re training corporate teams to better understand Deaf culture or teaching BSL to individuals, we’re committed to delivering a service that’s both educational and empowering.

Winning this award is a direct reflection of the trust and respect we’ve built over the years. Every face-to-face session, every training seminar, and every person we’ve helped communicate better brings us one step closer to a world that’s more inclusive for everyone.

By |2025-07-08T15:03:05+01:00July 8th, 2025|

BSL Courses Cardiff/Wales

Are you looking for a BSL course in Wales?

Our new Level 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 courses will be starting in September 2024.

Level 1 Course £404 (including exam fees)

Following a pilot course last year, with children as young as 8 learning BSL alongside a parents, we also have a Level 1 family course this year.

Level 2 Course £787 (including exam fees)

Our prices are the most competitive in Wales.

A range of classes are available, face to face, live online or through a pre-recorded distance learning course.

Interested or want to know more, email sarah@deaf-friendly.co.uk

By |2024-06-23T10:59:54+01:00April 27th, 2023|

Deaf Friendly Limited Acquires SLFirst Deaf Magazine

On April 1st, 2023 Deaf Friendly Limited acquired the SLFirst online Deaf Magazine.  Whilst still read by people from all over the world, the SLFirst magazine had been inactive for some years. The magazine is now called Deaf Friendly Magazine.  It will remain as a FREE to access magazine, and will continue to share information and stories linked to deaf life, sport, entertainment and education.  As most of the services Deaf Friendly Limited offers are linked to adult and child education, the education section of the magazine will be the most active section of the magazine.

Published articles will remain of interest to deaf and hard of hearing readers, parents and guardians of deaf children, educators and employers of deaf people.

Commenting on the acquisition, Cardiff based Deaf Friendly Limited owner and Director Sarah Lawrence said, “The SLFirst Magazine became popular across the world in a matter of months, and it is of great sadness that insufficient time meant that nothing was published for some time.  With Deaf Friendly Limited now taking over the magazine, we hope to keep anyone interested in deafness updated with the latest and most important information, with short, sharp and focused articles.  SLFirst remains the only magazine in the world that is both written and signed, and under the new title, Deaf Friendly Magazine, we intend to continue that tradition, enabling language equality by interested parties.”

By |2023-04-23T21:48:02+01:00April 1st, 2023|

Deaf Friendly Director Sarah Lawrence meets the minister.

 

Sign Language Week is celebrated in March every year to acknowledge the formal recognition of BSL by the UK Government on the 18th March 2003 as a minority language of the United Kingdom.  This year, we were delighted to receive an invitation from the Welsh Government’s Education Minister to celebrate Sign Language Week by teaching the Minister some British Sign Language, or some Welsh Regional BSL to be accurate.

Jeremy Miles MS, the Education Minister was warm, embracing and determined in his learning, respecting the level of precision needed to use BSL well. “I found it quite a joyous experience,” Sarah Lawrence signed, “and the respect given to me by the Education Minister was top level, which can be quite a rare experience.”

Short videos of the Minister signing were promoted across social media platforms, receiving widespread appreciation from the Deaf signing community from across Wales.

By |2023-04-23T21:50:22+01:00March 31st, 2023|
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