SIGN LANGUAGE FOR BUSINESSES
Free BSL Session for Your Team
Join us for Sign Language Week 2026 (16–22 March) and give your team the chance to learn about British Sign Language and Deaf culture through our free, live online introductory session.
Delivered by experienced BSL tutors, these interactive lessons offer an accessible introduction to the language and practical ways to create a more inclusive workplace. Full session dates and times will be shared soon via email.
When you register, your organisation will also receive a Wear it Blue fundraising pack, with simple ways to get involved, show solidarity with the Deaf community, and help raise vital funds supporting a future where sign language is embedded and respected across public life.
BSL will be available soon
We're still making preparations for this year's Sign Language Week and will update the website regularly in the run-up to March. Thank you for your patience.
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SIGN LANGUAGE WEEK 2025
About
Sign Language Week holds immense significance for the BDA, particularly this year as we launch our #TakingBSLForward civil rights movement. The week serves as a crucial opportunity to garner support for our mission and act as a platform to launch our 'Early Years’ position statement.
As the 'National Representative Organisation of British Sign Language (BSL) and Irish Sign Language (ISL) in the UK,' our responsibility is to 'Promote, Preserve and Protect' BSL and ISL. Our national sign languages have faced marginalisation for over a century at the hands of the hearing majority—teachers, doctors, politicians—who relentlessly promoted oralism, denying Deaf children access to sign language and resulting in damaging language deprivation.
BSL stands as the fourth most widely used indigenous language in the UK, with an estimated 151,000 individuals utilising the language.
BSL will be available soon
We're still making preparations for this year's Sign Language Week and will update the website regularly in the run-up to March. Thank you for your patience.