"The photosymbols are a fantastic idea and we are already getting lots of use from them."
Salford Being Heard
"We use your photosymbols. They're great! We are doing some work on domestic abuse and people with learning disabilities. We produced a poster highlighting that domestic abuse can happen to people with learning disabilities too."
Jayne Leeson, Sandwell People First
"We are very excited in the Community Resource Team as it will enable us to create really accessible document formats for our service users, especially things like visual calendars, reports and review notes. Keep up the good work. I have told everyone I can about your product."
Simon Green, London Borough of Hackney
"Your pack arrrived this week and we are over the moon! It is so much better than the other packs we have seen. I'm going to spend the weekend putting together Jigsaw's first easy read pages for the web site. I can't wait!"
Gill Gerhardi, Jigsaw Theatre Company
"Thanks for the photosymbols, which arrived safely this week. At first use I am very impressed with the package; easy to use and a great variety of photos that will really add to our accessible information and give it some class too. Well done to everyone involved."
Eddy McDowall, Oxfordshire Learning Disability Partnership Board
"We have found the pictures invaluable at highlighting very difficult issues, such as, bullying and emotions."
Clair Cairns, University of Stirling
"Thanks so much, the addition of the pack will really make a difference to our group.They are excellent, very useful."
Lee Salmon, Waltham Forest Mencap
"Thank you very much for your help and persistence. It's a pleasure to liaise with such a conscientious organisation!"
John Robinson, Arc UK
"Many thanks for your present, 'festive fifteen photosymbols'. Like the rest of your photosymbols it is excellent. I am using the pack on a daily basis and have had very positive feedback from Oldham People First. Keep up the hard work!"
Gavin Croft, Picture This Partnership
"A very belated thankyou for the web gallery format discs. People have accessed the images via our intranet and they have been a great success."
Maria Radford, Oxford County Council
"I've mainly been using the photos to illustrate powerpoint presentations delivered to staff. The photos are fantastic and have really helped to liven things up!"
Rose Harwood, Learning Disability Training
"Everyone had a great day, thank you very much for coming all that way. Grapevine
and its members are thrilled with the exhibition photos so thanks again!"
Naomi Madden, Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire
"We just wanted to say a really big THANK YOU for sending us the Photosymbols disk/pictures. Making information is so important and now we will be able to make an even better job of it. Thank you again."
Isabel Murphy and Andrew Borrett
Accessible Information Adviser and Officer
"This looks absolutely fantastic. I have looked at it with our membership manager and we are both happy with it. I am really impressed!! Thank you for all your hard work at such short notice."
Andrew Partington , Head of Communications, Sussex Partnership NHS Trust
"Thanks very much for the upgraded photosymbols and Safe and Sound pack – staying safe and combating hate crime is an issue of great importance to people here in Salford so that pack will prove really useful I’m sure. Once again thanks for your brilliant service."
Linzi Brook, New Directions
"Nice working with you! I’ll definitely recommend you to my colleagues in other departments!"
Adina Bozga
Community Safety Division, Lambeth Borough Council
"Just to say a HUGE thanks we just received the disc today and it is fantastic. (So were the sweeties)."
Alison Pointu, Board Nurse Advisor/Nurse Consultant (Learning Disabilities)
"Thanks for your fantastic work-ups for the Bristol and North Tyneside fieldwork – they’re working a treat."
Alexandra Walton, Opinion Leader
"I have the responsibility for generating easily read flyers and web pages. We have a licence to use your photosymbols and I have happily used your images with great success. My interest is in generating materials for learning disabled service users in language which can be easily understood."
Herbert Simms, Richmond Learning Disability Management Team
"Just got back from my summer hols to find my copy of photosymbols has arrived. I have to say I am very impressed, the images are great and the coverage in terms of words and concepts is good."
Jim Broughton, Positive Futures Healthy Living Centre, Nottingham
"How did you make something so dry look so warm and friendly! I gather everyone else thought it was great too. Many thanks for your work on this. It's great! Why didn't anyone tell us about you sooner!"
Susannah Strong, Care Services Improvement Partnership
"Thank you for the fantastic course you have given us. I found it really inspiring and it has made me look at the documents we produce in a completely different light. I especially appreciated the encouraging approach you had to our learning, and your interesting background information, which really brought it to life. I am just about to write up minutes from a meeting using photosymbols and hopefully they will make sense! Many thanks."
Fiona Earlam, University of the West of England, Bristol
"My job is to run meetings all about different ideas to help people with communication. When I write minutes of the meetings, I use the photosymbols software and I think its wonderful I‘m very glad to see that there are now some pictures for the pub in the new cd’s!! I also work for Lambeth College as a teacher and soon they’re going to be buying a cd from you as I’ve been showing my boss how good the pictures are!"
Emily Ward, Lambeth People First