SIS continues to celebrate 30 years! As part of our celebrations, we have received 12 wonderful video messages of support from interpreters, trustees, partners, and commissioners. Here is the fifth message from Nergiz Arslan a long-standing Community Interpreter, Bilingual Advocate and Community Navigator (Social Prescriber) All videos are less than 2 minutes. We are posting…
What impact do the words we use have on people who access mental health services? That is the central question considered in an important new guide Changing the Language The guide has been coproduced by people with an interest in supporting a positive change of the language we use. This has included people with lived…
SIS is celebrating 30 years! As part of our celebrations, we have received 12 wonderful video messages of support from interpreters, trustees, partners, and commissioners. Here is the fourth message from Julia Encarnação a long-standing Community Interpreter and a former SIS Trustee. All videos are less than 2 minutes. We intend to post one a…
SIS is celebrating 30 years! As part of our celebrations, we have received 12 wonderful video messages of support from interpreters, trustees, partners, and commissioners. Here is the third message from Nadine Zeytoun a long-standing Community Interpreter and a former Chair of Sussex Syrian Community. All videos are less than 2 minutes. We intend to…
A family has had racist graffiti sprayed on the front of their council flat in Brighton. The family have used our interpreting services. They describe the terrible impact and stress of this disgusting abuse: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/24901737.mans-kemp-town-flat-graffitied-abuse-racist-attack/?ref=wa We stand in full solidarity with the family. Such hate crime has no place in our multicultural society. I visited…
SIS is celebrating 30 years! As part of our celebrations we have received 12 wonderful video messages of support from interpreters, trustees, partners and commissioners. Here is the second message from Lucy Bryson a long-standing partner and International Migration Manager at Brighton and Hove City Council All videos are less than 2 minutes. We…
SIS is celebrating 30 years! As part of our celebrations we have received 12 wonderful video messages of support from interpreters, trustees, partners and commissioners. Here is the first message from Lai Lai a long-standing SIS Community Interpreter. All videos are less than 2 minutes. We intend to post one a month for the year…
SIS is celebrating 30 years! As part of our celebrations we have received 12 wonderful video messages of support from interpreters, trustees, partners and commissioners. We intend to post one a month for the year as part of our continuing celebrations. The first Video Message from SIS Community Interpreter Lai Lai has been posted. You…
SIS is celebrating 30 years! Our AGM was a fantastic opportunity for staff, Linguists, Trustees, Service Users and partners to come together. Over 160 people attended to mark this important milestone as a charity and social enterprise. 18 Interpreters worked in 12 languages so that our beneficiaries were fully involved. Our fantastic Linguists were at…
We are very proud to publish our 2023-2024 Annual Review Investing to Grow It is hard to believe we are 30! We began small. We delivered 600 interpreting sessions a year in 15 languages. Today we manage 20,000 interpreting sessions a year in 47 languages. Over 30 years we provided 300,000+ interpreting sessions for 25,000…
