Welcome to the

Grampian Deaf Children’s Society

We are working to support deaf children, young people and their families across Aberdeen, Grampian and the North East of Scotland.

🥳We held our launch event on Saturday 21st June 2025! Thank you to everyone who turned out to celebrate with us!

🗓️ We are now looking forward to an exciting program of events older children, younger children, and parents and carers too!

 ✏️ Check out what’s coming up below and if something appeals – please indicate your interest by filling in the form for that event! 

We also encourage you to take some time to browse our site to find out more about us, and to check out some potentially useful resources too.

Also, if you would like to get to know us better, you can apply to join our private Facebook group which serves as a community for advice, support, and information sharing.

Vision

Our Vision

A world without barriers for every deaf child and young person.

Mission

Our Mission

To overcome the social and educational barriers that hold back deaf children in the Grampian area covering Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.

To support deaf children and young people along with their families and friends. 

Our Latest News 📰

We bring you the latest five posts from our Facebook Page once per day.

Please visit us on Facebook if you want to read more, and follow us there!

Grampian Deaf Children’s Society

2 days 23 hours ago

Big thank you goes to Claire at CFM Showing her support to us by kindly donating a hair & beauty goodie box 💄
Claire is based in Inverurie and provides hair & beauty services 💇🏼‍♀️

Grampian Deaf Children’s Society

5 days 7 hours ago

Thank you to the lovely Mary from Noshluvu Charcuterie - Luxury Grazing She kindly donated a voucher for a luxury grazing platter 🍇🍓🧀🥨

Head over to to her page to see the incredible platters she makes and to contact her for any enquiries or orders ❤️

Grampian Deaf Children’s Society

6 days 6 hours ago

🧸 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 👶🏼👧🏻👦🏼

Polite reminder that we have booked out Playtown Inverurie so our little people have the VIP experience.
Providing a calm environment for children to play & socialise. The grown ups will get a chance to meet other parents and members of our committee. (Ps the coffee and cakes are incredible 🍰)

If you would like to join us please register at www.gdcs.info
Aimed at children age 7 and under

SATURDAY 5th July
1:30pm-3pm

📍Playtown
18 High Street
Inverurie

Grampian Deaf Children’s Society

6 days 7 hours ago

Thank you to Bicocchis Inverurie for the kind donation of a family ice cream voucher as part of our raffle prizes at the launch event.
I have no hesitation in saying their ice cream is the BEST I’ve ever tasted and the choice of flavours is out of this world!! 🍦
You’ll find them at unit 4 Burn Lane Inverurie.

Grampian Deaf Children’s Society

6 days 9 hours ago

Special shout out to Skyline Trampoline Park Inverurie for their donation of not only one but two vouchers for raffle prizes, we can’t thank you enough.

Skyline is equipped with lots of trampolines, foam pits, challenge maze and small children’s play area.
🍔🍟The food and drinks in the cafe is out of this world. Make sure you get booked in to have lots of fun there over the holidays.

 

Upcoming Events 📅

Check out what’s coming up and consider signing up!

Signing up for your first event?: Please tell us a wee bit more about your family group by filling in our Membership Form.

It’s free, and the information you share helps us plan future events!

Family BSL Classes For Preschool and Early Years

Free and open to deaf children and their siblings based in Grampian. Teaching will be tailored to those who attend. Therefore, these classes should be suitable for those who have no experience as well as those who have started using BSL.

Classes taught by BSL teacher Mags McNulty

Find Out More

Older Children & Young People Interested In BSL?

As a charity, we are interested in organising future BSL classes for older children and young people.

If this is something that would interest you, or a member of your family – we’d love to hear from you!

Visit our Connect with Us page, drop us a message telling us a little bit your situation.

We would like to understand who may be interested, and where in Grampian / North East Scotland you are based so that we can plan accordingly!

Who We Support:

Deaf & Partially Hearing Children

Deaf & Partially Hearing Young People

Their Families, Friends & Wider Community

Thank you to everyone that attended the launch event on Saturday 21st June!

It was a tremendous turn out and we are overwhelmed at the support for Grampian Deaf Children’s Society 💜

Well done to all our kiltwalkers who took part in the 2025 Aberdeen Kiltwalk.

A huge thank you to everyone for your generous donations and support!

Together we raised around £5000 which will go a long way to supporting the society and it’s work!

Find Out More

Babies are born deaf every day in the UK

Of deaf children are born to hearing parents

Deaf children in Scotland

We’re Sharing Deaf Stories:

“Hey! I have created an instagram page to share my story about being deaf and spread deaf awareness! I hope to inspire younger deaf people and make them realise being deaf isn’t something to hide but embrace 💗 please feel free to follow and share x”

Ellis-Marie Ferrie @ellismarie_deaf