Overview

In 1899, the Birmingham Adult Deaf and Dumb Association was formed as a charity and within 100 years, changed to the Birmingham Institute for the Deaf and is now known as bid services.

Development of the new vision: creating the future

By the millennium, BID Services with Deaf People had grown with the recruitment of staff and the expansion of services.

bid services had traditionally offered services that enabled independence for deaf people. bid services was now beginning a project that was about the celebration of Deaf Culture and the Deaf community in Birmingham and across the UK.

After a consultation period, architects D5 designed an excellent facility to accommodate bid services. This was also to become a Cultural Centre for Deaf people from across the UK.

In 2005, bid's idea for the Deaf Cultural Centre was born with crucial investment from FutureBuilders. 

The UK's first Deaf Cultural Centre brings together for the first time diverse elements of the Deaf community and Deaf culture under one roof and it is a space in which Deaf culture is celebrated, explored and represented through a series of community and leisure projects, arts, exhibitions and social events.

Click here to look at a gallery of previous buildings/centres and look at the events they held