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Happy Sign Language Week! This year we will be celebrating Sign Language as so much more than a language; it is the heart of our living, cultural heritage. It is a place to belong, and feel seen. A place that is rich with history, humour and activism. And stories. How can you get involved? Go Blue! Visit the Sign Language Week website to download a fundraising pack full of ideas, decorations and fun activities to help you raise vital funds to support our work. Donate to our Loss to Found appeal.

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Sign Language Week is a flagship awareness week for British Sign Language (BSL) and Irish Sign Language (ISL), celebrated every year in March to commemorate the first time BSL was acknowledged as a language in its own right by the UK Government on 18 March 2003. The week is organised by the British Deaf Association, which has chosen the theme of ‘Promoting BSL and ISL as indigenous languages of the UK’. The campaign aims to celebrate and educate about BSL and ISL, to encourage more people to sta