Who we work with
Service Users
We work with Racially Minoritised, Ethnically & Culturally Diverse individuals and communities speaking 50 languages.
Service Users may lack a supportive family network and community. People may be elderly, vulnerable, and isolated, with poor public service knowledge. Critical work involves medical emergency, domestic violence, hate crime, asylum, torture and trauma, terminal illness, rape and child abuse.
Uniquely we operate a self-referral system for Service Users. We deliver emergency interpreting 24/7/365.
Linguists
SIS recruits, trains and supports locally based community members with lived experience to work as Interpreters, Translators, Social Prescribers and Community Researchers.
We also have a thriving Volunteer Linguist programme.
Service Providers
SIS works with 500+ departments within the public and community sectors across Sussex, facilitating maximum meaningful communication across linguistic and cultural barriers.
Here are some of the larger organisations we are contracted to work with:
