{"id":640,"date":"2018-05-10T20:51:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/?p=640"},"modified":"2018-06-19T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:30:59","slug":"may-2018-club-meeting-speaker-john-clayton-from-hi-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2018\/05\/10\/may-2018-club-meeting-speaker-john-clayton-from-hi-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2018 &#8211; Club Meeting Speaker: John Clayton from HI Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our May meeting opened with the this quote from Helen Keller<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-646 aligncenter\" src=\"\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/HK-Quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Our speaker was John Clayton from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hikent.org.uk\/\">HI Kent<\/a>, a locally based charity supporting the deaf and hard of hearing in Kent and East Sussex.\u00a0 HI Kent, which stands for Hearing Impaired Kent has been established since 1986 and is a very underfunded charity without Government support.\u00a0 HI Kent was awarded the Queens Award for Voluntary service which they are extremely proud of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-642\" src=\"\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/img_2706-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/img_2706-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/img_2706-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/img_2706-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/img_2706.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Some of the statistics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">1in 5 people are either deaf or hard of hearing in those over 50<\/li>\n<li>1 in 10 people suffer Tinnitus<\/li>\n<li>HI Kent have helped over 6500 people<\/li>\n<li>248 support clinics are run where NHS aids can be cleaned<\/li>\n<li>\u00a08 support groups in Kent, Ashford and Dover nearest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deafness leaves people feeling isolated and left out, and reluctant to participate in everyday events<\/p>\n<p>HI Kent is supported locally by the Roger de Haan trust which helps them to run courses in sign language and lip reading.<\/p>\n<p>We made a donation to the charity.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-643 aligncenter\" src=\"\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/img_2707-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/img_2707-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/img_2707-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/img_2707-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/img_2707.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our May meeting opened with the this quote from Helen Keller Our speaker was John&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,104],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hi-kent","tag-john-clayton"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>May 2018 - Club Meeting Speaker: John Clayton from HI Kent | News | Blog | Events | SI Folkestone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Folkestone : Blog &amp; News : May 2018 - Club Meeting Speaker: John Clayton from HI Kent : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Folkestone . 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