Welcome
The Dominic Barker Trust, or Dom’s Fund, was set up in 1997 in memory of Dominic, who had a persistent stammer and who took his own life in 1994, aged 26. Fluent speech is something that most of us are able to take for granted. Those who stutter or stammer, however, expend huge amounts of unseen energy on struggling to communicate, thinking ahead to avoid problem words and feeling the pressure to get their words out before the listener either jumps in to rescue them, or turns away. People who stutter often experience not only frustration and isolation but also discrimination at all sorts of levels. Through our funding, we enable research into the causes and treatments of stammering, and we support the clinical work of Speech and Language Therapists and practical research at ground level. We also support local and national initiatives to reduce the shame, prejudice and ignorance around stuttering.
We principally fundraise through individual donations, events, institutional funding and our original greetings cards.
If you are interested in fundraising please get in touch.
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