Ogier continues to champion accessibility and inclusion at 10th Jersey Festival of Words

Ogier is proud to continue its sponsorship of the Jersey Festival of Words, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2025. Ogier's funding will once again be dedicated to enhancing accessibility and creating inclusive experiences for all festival attendees.  

This year’s festival, which runs from 19 – 28 September, will continue its commitment to breaking down barriers and ensuring that everyone in the community can engage with literature, storytelling and the arts. Ogier's sponsorship will enable a wide range of inclusive initiatives, including: 

• speech-to-text captioning at selected events 
• BSL interpretation at selected events 
• a lipreading and deaf awareness workshop
• sighted guide training for festival volunteers 
• multilingual storytelling sessions in Millennium Park for nursery-aged children 

Sophie Halsey, senior diversity, equity and inclusion advisor at Ogier said: "We're delighted to support the Jersey Festival of Words in its 10th year. These provisions are about more than just access – they're about belonging. We hope they will help more islanders and visitors attending the festival feel included and connected through the power of words." 

Find out more about accessibility and inclusion at the Jersey Festival of Words.

Don't miss the following events 

Saturday 20 September 

Carole Jordas | Lipreading, managing hearing loss and deaf awareness 
10:00 – 11:00, Jersey Library 
Free to access 

Wednesday 24 September 

Stories in the park – multilingual storytelling 
10:30 – 11:00, Millennium Park 
This event, for nursery-aged children, is free to access

Colin Butfield | Ocean – Earth's last wilderness  
18:00 – 19:00, Freedom Centre 
This event will be speech-to-text facilitated 

Thursday 25 September 

Stories in the park – multilingual storytelling 
10:30 – 11:00, Millennium Park 
This event, for nursery-aged children, is free to access 

Sandra Noel | Into the under – poetry reading and chat  
11:00 – 12:00, EYECAN  
Free to access 

Patrick Kane | Human 2.0 – a celebration of human bionics  
12:00 – 13:00, Freedom Centre 
This event, for students in Years 5 – 8, will be speech-to-text facilitated 

Saturday 27 September  

Kenji Morimoto | Fermentation demonstration 
10:00 – 11:00, Jersey Library 
Free to access 

Kathryn Harkup | V is for Venom 
10:30 – 11:30, Jersey Arts Centre 
This event will be BSL interpreted 

Kate Mosse | Life and Literature 
14:00 – 15:00, Freedom Centre 
This event will be speech-to-text facilitated 

Dr Annie Gray | The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker 
16:00 – 17:00, Freedom Centre 
This event will be BSL interpreted