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!
We are delighted to share that we are running a 7 week block of BSL classes from the 6th September ☺️
You wil find all the info on the poster ⬇️
Please sign up to attend at www.gdcs.info
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
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
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!
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”