Sign inTinnitus UK faces drastic funding crisis
Providing essential support to tinnitus sufferers is costing the UK charity Tinnitus UK a fortune, and that cost is additional to its research burden. Funds are urgently needed, says the group.
The world’s leading tinnitus charity, Tinnitus UK, is facing a funding emergency that could see it having to shut down its core support services to sufferers.
In a stirringly worded appeal on the Tinnitus UK website – https://tinnitus.org.uk/tinnitus-urgent-appeal-2024/ – academic Dr. James Jackson, himself a long-term chronic tinnitus sufferer, reaches out for funding, explaining that every day the charity “spends £2,542 giving free support to the UK’s tinnitus community”.
“If Tinnitus UK cannot fill the funding gap, there is a very real prospect that they would have to close their core services,” says Dr. Jackson, who is on Tinnitus UK’s Scientific Advisory Board. Check the next issue of Audiology News UK for more in-depth news on Tinnitus UK.
Source: Tinnitus UK
