Sign Language Week 2024

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Sign Language Week is an awareness week for British Sign Language (BSL) and Irish Sign Language (ISL). It is celebrated every year in March to commemorate the first time BSL was acknowledged as a language in its own right by the UK Government on 18 March 2003.

The week is organised by the British Deaf Association, which has chosen the theme of ‘Promoting BSL and ISL as indigenous languages of the UK’.

The campaign aims to celebrate and educate about BSL and ISL, to encourage more people to start learning it and preserve BSL and ISL for future generations.

28 April is known annually as ‘National BSL Day’, keep an eye out on our social media channels for any Surrey specific updates.

Read more about Sign Language Week online.