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  • STAMMA Appoints a New Chair

    STAMMA has appointed Roger Pim as its new Chair, who will sit on the Board as Chair Elect until October when Acting Chair Paul Fix will formally hand over the reins. Roger first got involved in the charity in 2004, as a founding Board member of the Scottish Branch of the British Stammering Association (now STAMMA). The vacancy came about when Joanna Gaukroger stood down for health reasons.

  • BRAND RECOGNITION FOR STAMMA AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH

    An omnibus poll conducted by YouGov on 25th January 2024 showed that brand recognition for STAMMA, the British Stammering Association, stands at a record high of 19%. This has risen dramatically since 2018, when only 2% were able to identify them as a charity for people who stammer.

  • DECLARATION OF THE RIGHT TO STUTTER

    STAMMA have joined 61 other organisations around the world calling for the Right to Stutter on International Stammering Awareness Day. On a day normally flooded with stories about overcoming, STAMMA and other organisations are pushing instead for stammering to be accepted.

  • Six-year-old Gabriel and best friend Missy run Manchester marathon in support of STAMMA

    Six year old Gabriel Brown and his best friend and classmate Missy Grimes are running in the 1.5 KM Mini Great Manchester Run this Sunday in aid of STAMMA, and its support for parents of children who stammer. Together, they’ve raised a whopping £1,126.
    Around 8% of children stammer at some point, leaving parents often unable to know where to turn. Gabriel’s mum Laura, who has raised over 700

  • 25,000 PETITION TO BE DELIVERED TO BBC AND ITV 22ND OCTOBER

    Less than half the population can name a character in TV or film who stammers; of those that were able to name someone, most entered either King George VI (The King's Speech) or Arkwright from Open All Hours. This is an indictment of media representation of people who stammer.

  • INTERNATIONAL STAMMERING CONFERENCE LIVERPOOL 24th-28th August: “STAMMAFest Global”

    STAMMA are holding an international stammering conference at Liverpool University, 24-28 August. A 5-day extravaganza which incorporates STAMMA’s biennial conference and the International Stuttering Association’s (ISA) World Congress. Speakers include actor and podcaster Scroobius Pip, author Hannah Tovey, Poet Owen Sheers and activist Patrick Campbell.

  • Conference for Parents & Children who stammer, 27th August, Liverpool University

    Help us to promote free places for children and parents who are Speech and Language Therapy clients living in Liverpool or Sefton. This one day conference aims to give children and teenagers who stammer a chance to connect with others and provide a space for parents of young people who stammer to share their experiences.

  • ON A SCREEN NEAR YOU

    STAMMA has partnered up with the UK’s best-known cinema advertising contractor Pearl & Dean for a world first, a short film promoting a petition calling for people who stammer to be visibly and authentically portrayed in the media.

  • A Global Love Letter to the TV & Film Industry

    STAMMA, The British Stammering Association, is urging broadcasters, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV and the BBC, to include people who stammer on the small and silver screen in a love letter on social media, supported by organisations around the world representing those who stammer/stutter.

  • INTERNATIONAL STAMMERING AWARENESS DAY, ISAD 22nd OCTOBER, STAMMA CAMPAIGN

    A comical film, Not Just One Day,  has gone live on STAMMA social channels. The film follows the inner monologue of someone who doesn’t really believe in petitions, and finds them mostly vague or unrealistic, with the one exception being the new petition from STAMMA, which provides a focused and actionable change.STAMMA, which marks International Stammering Awareness Day on October 22nd with the l

  • STAMMA SUPPORTS LAUNCH OF BBC STAMMERING NETWORK

    The BBC will launch its Internal Stammering Support Network tomorrow. This follows hard on the footsteps of ‘I Can’t Say My Name’, an acclaimed documentary which aired on March 10th this year, after which its presenter, Felicity Baker, was inundated by messages of support from the public as well as from staff at the Corporation.

  • Combined STAMMA Conference & ISA World Congress 2022 to be held in Liverpool

    STAMMA, the British Stammering Association, are delighted to announce that they will be hosting the 2022 International Stuttering Association (ISA) World Congress in Liverpool. This will be combined with STAMMA’s own biennial conference. The conference will be held on 24th-28th of August 2022 at the University of Liverpool.

  • Jonty Claypole New Patron at STAMMA

    Following publication of his book, 'Words Fail Us; In Defence of Disfluency', Jonty Claypole, outgoing Director of BBC Arts, has joined Scroobius Pip, Margaret Drabble, Kelly Brown, David Mitchell and others as Patron of the British Stammering Association.

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