Have you attended an event or received advice from RAD's Black, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BMER) Project? If so, we would like your feedback. If you have any suggestions as to how we can improve our service, please come to the BMER Project Feedback Meeting on Tuesday 20th April at 2nd Floor, Karen House, 1-11 Baches St, London, N1 6DL from 2pm to 3pm. For more information or to book a place sms 07525 234 782 or email BMER's Advocacy Team.

RAD will play a vital role in a new research project aimed at supporting Deaf people who are British Sign Language (BSL) users and have dementia. Funded by the Alzheimer's Society, the project aims to:

• Improve early diagnosis of dementia in the Deaf community
• Identify the needs of Deaf people who have dementia and enable them to access the services they need

The project is a partnership between RAD, the University of Manchester, University College London, and City University. For full details including information in BSL click here. For further information on RAD's involvement in the project contact Head of Social Care, Ruth Geall.

RAD has formed an exciting European partnership with Deaf organisations in Austria and Finland. Funded by The European Lifelong Learning Programme, the purpose of the Leonardo Project Partnership is to enable care professionals in the three organisations to exchange expertise and learn from each others' services, methods and working practises. Members from each organisation will travel to the other countries to learn how they work. The first meeting took place in Linz, Austria in mid January and was attended by RAD's Head of Social Care, Ruth Geall (1st row, 2nd right) and Cath White, Senior Team Leader (2nd row, 2nd right)