Hearing Help Essex is a Charity that exists to alleviate the isolation and loneliness that hearing loss can bring. We work with those who have acquired hearing loss, by offering practical help, support, advice and guidance.

Hearing aids need cleaning and re-tubing every 4-6 months for them to work effectively, we run hearing aid support sessions in the community to support NHS audiology departments for re-tubing and basic maintenance.

We run over 30 sessions a month across Essex in a variety of locations such as community health clinics, day care centres, libraries and church and village halls. Service Users need to book an appointment in advance to attend and appointments take around 10-15minutes, each session usually runs once a month for 2 hours at a time.

The role of the technical volunteer is to provide basic NHS hearing aid maintenance (cleaning and retubing) to our Service Users at community sessions and via home visits.