Signing Centric is my independent BSL/English interpreting practice. When you book Signing Centric, you book me — there's no agency in the middle and no question mark over who'll turn up on the day. We'll talk about what you need, I'll ask the questions I need answered, and I'll come prepared.
If a booking needs two interpreters, more preparation or a different approach, I'll tell you. That's part of the job too.
Booking interpreters can be a box-ticking exercise, when it should be about having the right professional there to catch the detail and the nuance — and the difference is obvious to everyone in the room. Access gets a Deaf person into the building. What I provide is the bit that comes next: real conversations, where the tone survives, rapport builds, and nobody leaves feeling they got the shortened version.
I've interpreted professionally since 2015, across public, corporate and creative settings. That work has included the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and TNT Sports, the European Parliament and the United Nations, the British Deaf Association and the World Federation of the Deaf.
Closer to the ground, it has meant courtrooms, hospitals, boardrooms, theatres, studios, classrooms and festival fields. Each one asks for something different, which is what keeps the work interesting.
To me, BSL isn't an adjustment or an accommodation. It's a language in its own right, with its own grammar, humour and history, and a community I'm part of.
That shapes how I work. What tends to get in the way for Deaf people isn't being Deaf — it's meetings, appointments and events that were put together without them in mind from the start, which often causes misunderstanding and anxiety. Good interpreting can make a big difference, and I work to make sure everyone — Deaf people especially — feels understood.
Registration means an assessed qualification, a code of conduct, a complaints route and ongoing professional development. You can check mine any time on the NRCPD register.
Four things I hold to, wherever I'm working.
By the time I walk in I want to know the names, the subject and the shape of the day. Send me the agenda, the script, the slides, the running order — whatever you've got. And build in a few minutes beforehand so we can talk it through. Then when things get going, they go the way you intended.
A joke has to land. A eulogy has to move people. A song has to feel like a song. BSL is its own language, with its own culture behind it, so I work for what the speaker meant — which isn't always what a tidy word-for-word version would give you.
My job is to make the conversation possible — to make sure everyone understands and feels understood. That's the standard I hold myself to, and what you should expect from me.
If a booking needs two interpreters, more preparation time or an earlier start, I'll say so up front. And if I'm not free, you'll hear back quickly enough to find someone who is.
If that sounds like the right fit, I'd like to hear from you.
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