We have more than 1,000 staff, 1,092 volunteers and more than 20,000 members who support our work across the UK. We are led by our Executive Group, Board of Trustees, President and seven Vice Presidents who bring with them decades of experience from both the charity and commercial sectors.

At RNID we focus 100% on reaching out to and supporting people with deafness, tinnitus and hearing loss. Hearing loss can ruin lives: people lose jobs, relationships are destroyed; it can cause isolation and depression. It’s not just a minor inconvenience, inevitable as we age.

Yet there are endless ways that small interventions, such as information and advice, peer support, technical devices and communication support, can bring about radical improvements in quality of life. We believe everyone should have choice and control over how they live their lives.

We are working towards a set of goals that we firmly believe are achievable and that will change people’s lives for the better. In particular, as the number of older people increases, we’re determined that no one should be isolated by their hearing loss.

Following many conversations with people who are deaf, or have tinnitus or hearing loss, we’ve created ‘outcome statements’ that sum up our vision of how we should be supporting people.