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Hearing and speech impairment

Find out what we can do to help customers who are deaf, have a hearing impairment, use sign language or have a speech impairment.

How we can help

Induction loops

All our branches have induction loops.

SignVideo

SignVideo is a safe and secure online video service. It allows you to contact us using British Sign language by signing to an interpreter who speaks to us.

How to use SignVideo

SignVideo is also available in our branches. Just pop into your local branch and let one of our colleagues know you’d like to use this service.

BT Relay UK

BT Relay UK allows you to type messages to a text relay assistant who speaks to us over the phone and types back to you.

You can use the service by dialling 18001 from a text phone followed by any of our phone numbers. Or visit BT Relay UK's website to use their free app.

BT Relay UK website

Web chat

Web chat is available so you can talk to us online - look for the chat icon on the right hand side of any page on our website.

Communication Access UK

Communication Access UK aims to make things easier for people with communication disabilities. It is a partnership between national charities and organisations. We were the only financial services organisation to take part in the 'early adopter' phase of this.

The initiative provides special training in helping customers with communications requirements. Over 1,500 Skipton colleagues have now completed this training.

Communication Access UK

Longer appointments

If you think you may need a longer appointment, please let us know and we’ll be happy to accommodate.

How else can we help?

We're always working to improve accessibility for all of our customers, so if there's something we could do to help you further please let us know.

Need more help?

We're here to listen and help wherever we can. If you'd like to speak to us about how we can help you, please get in touch.

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