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Check your hearing

Start 2025 by caring for your hearing health. It’s free and takes just 3 minutes.

Check your hearing

Check your hearing

Start 2025 by caring for your hearing health. It’s free and takes just 3 minutes.

Check your hearing

We are RNID

We are the national charity supporting more than 18 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.

More about us and our work

Hearing loss affects 1 in 3 adults.

Information and support

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Deaf awareness

Tips for communication, accessibility and being deaf aware at work.
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Hearing loss

The different types of hearing loss, how to get your hearing tested and what can help you hear better.
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Tinnitus

Information about tinnitus, what to do if you have it and the therapies available.
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Technology

Assistive devices that can help you communicate, enjoy entertainment and stay independent.
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Business and organisations

We can help your workplace become deaf aware.
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Local services

We provide information and support in communities across the UK.
Support for businesses and organisations

Support for businesses and organisations

We can help your workplace become deaf aware.
Hearing loss

Hearing loss

The different types of hearing loss, how to get your hearing tested and what can help you hear better.
Tinnitus

Tinnitus

Information about tinnitus, what to do if you have it and the therapies available.
Deaf awareness

Deaf awareness

Tips for communication, accessibility and being deaf aware at work.
Technology and assistive devices

Technology and assistive devices

Assistive devices that can help you communicate, enjoy entertainment and stay independent.
Local support services

Local support services

We provide information and support in communities across the UK.

Make a difference

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Fundraise for us in 2025

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Volunteer with us

Help us make life fully inclusive for the communities we support.
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Join our campaign

Help us demand free access to ear wax removal services by joining our campaign.

Stories from our community

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My In2scienceUK experience: Faadia Mohsin

In partnership with In2scienceUK, we funded Faadia’s research placement at the UCL Ear Institute. This is her experience.
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Share your story with us

Personal stories are the most powerful way to show the general public why our mission is so important. Help by sharing yours with RNID today.

Latest news

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Reforming Elective Care: Our response and the need to transform audiology services

7 January 2025
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NICE recommends new drug to help prevent hearing loss in children undergoing cancer treatment

20 December 2024
Staff from RNID and the BIA standing together Left to right, Sinead Donoghue (RNID), Steve Bates (BIA), Harriet Oppenheimer (RNID), Laura Bunn (RNID), Alina O'Keeffe (BIA), Jane Wall (BIA)

Working together with BioIndustry Association (BIA) to change lives in 2024

12 December 2024
Reforming Elective Care: Our response and the need to transform audiology services

Reforming Elective Care: Our response and the need to transform audiology services

7 January 2025
NICE recommends new drug to help prevent hearing loss in children undergoing cancer treatment

NICE recommends new drug to help prevent hearing loss in children undergoing cancer treatment

20 December 2024
Working together with BIA to change lives in 2024 

Working together with BIA to change lives in 2024 

12 December 2024
My In2scienceUK experience: Faadia Mohsin 

My In2scienceUK experience: Faadia Mohsin 

6 December 2024
Imagining the future of hearing health: UK’s National Technology Adviser, Dr Dave Smith 

Imagining the future of hearing health: UK’s National Technology Adviser, Dr Dave Smith 

6 December 2024
Government launches plan to reform employment support 

Government launches plan to reform employment support 

26 November 2024

Our research

Celebrating 25 years of hearing research

From collaborating on the UK’s first cochlear implant, to kick-starting a genetic test that protects babies’ hearing, we’ve been making impact in hearing research since 2000. Here’s how.
Our impact
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