D&H TRAILBLAZERS
D&H TRAILBLAZERS
D&H TRAILBLAZERS
About us
Deaf & Hearing Trailblazers is a Community Interest Company (CIC) and we are here to offer you training courses. We will provide you with new skills and knowledge to improve your potential and enable you to progress further in your work or personal and social life.
Stuart is a qualified Teacher of the Deaf and is our accredited Action Centred Leadership tutor for Team, Operational and Strategic Leadership. He is also a lead Tutor with UK Coaching and licensed to deliver CPD to sports coaches, volunteers and administrators.
Stuart has held a variety of governance, senior management and consultancy roles with assignments taking him overseas working in challenging environments.
Stuart Harrison
Director
Damian has done the full circuit working as CEO/Director in various National UK organisations in the deaf and hard of hearing sector over his career namely Hearing Concern, BDA, as well as a spell working 10 years for the NHS and British Red Cross. His background is training and development, project development, as well as strategic management and leadership.
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Damian is known for his honest straight talking approach and assisting whoever is listening to imagine being in the shoes of the deaf, deafened or hard of hearing person. Damian brings ideas and can be persuasive to make the case.
Damian is solutions focussed and when he is presented with a problem, he goes away and try and figure out a solution and brings this to the table.
Damian Barry
Director
Hussain is a Qualified Financial Accountant registered with the IFA and works as Global Finance and Operations Lead at Whitestone Corporate Group. He is keen to give back to the community in various inclusive and diversity engagements.
As well as being our Finance Director, he is a governor for Kineton Green Primary School, Solihull. he was a past treasurer for a Learning Disability charity and a business advisor for the EY Foundation supporting young people from low-income backgrounds to get paid work expereince and employability skills.
Hussain Rahim
Director
Katie is deaf and she has worked in deaf and hearing organisations including the civil service. Katie adventured with Raleigh international expeditioning in Namibia.
As a non-executive director, Katie's experience brings knowledge to our strategic planning and evaluations of how deaf and hearing work well together and enjoy the experience.
In her spare time she is a cricket coach and is also the Chair of the England Cricket Association for the Deaf.
Katie Harrison
Non-Executive Director
Katie works as our freelance office administrator, supporting the Directors with a range of admin duties, training administration and also looks after our regular newsletter and social media.
She is a friendly and approachable person, cheerful and optimistic. She has administration experience in the construction industry as well as other deaf organisations, she was previously with Access Bedford
Katie Gilmartin
Administrator
Joanne is an experienced youth worker and trained counsellor. She provides supervisory and facilitation support on our training programmes.
Joanne Harrison
Workshop Supervisor
Key values
When friendship support and understanding is shared; and positive attitudes are fostered through our activities, the experience can be mutually rewarding for deaf people, their hearing friends/colleagues and their families.
Through the DHT training programme, a variety of personal, leadership and work skills will enable deaf and hearing people to become positive role models for future generations of young people and adults.
Partnership is a two-way process: encouraging deaf people to empower hearing people in their understanding of deaf people and their diverse culture, for hearing people to empower deaf people to succeed in a challenging society where communication barriers exist.
A belief that deaf and hearing people can work together, and deaf people can provide an added value to positions of responsibility and leadership in society.
