Trustees:
Rt. Hon Sir Malcolm Pill
Eleanor Barker
Guy Barker
Dr Christopher Brown
Toby Kramers
Simon Wallis

Registered Charity Number: 1063491


The Dominic Barker Trust, a charity called Dom's Fund, has been set up for research into stammering.

The fund is in memory of a witty, intelligent and much loved young man for whom the burden of stammering was so great that he took his own life.

Most of us take for granted the ability to use the telephone, to ask for what we need when shopping, or to answer questions at a job interview. But people who stammer frequently struggle to make themselves understood - by those who do not recognise the difficulties and frustrations of stammering.

 

The Dominic Barker Trust fund aims to:

  • Fund research into stammering
  • Raise awareness of the issues surrounding stammering
  • Encourage understanding in those who meet people who stammer
  • Devise better programmes to help overcome this disability

The Trust currently funds ongoing research based at Suffolk College, an accredited college of the University of East Anglia. Details of the research may be found by clicking here.


Latest News:
The Dominic Barker Trust received an honorary degree conferred by UEA, the University of East Anglia, on 28th October, 2004, at the Suffolk College, Ipswich. It is extremely rare for a Trust to be awarded an honorary degree and the Trustees are delighted that research and work already done and being done by the Trust has been acknowledged in this way.
Degree Ceremony Photo


The photo shows Eleanor Barker, who received the degree on behalf of the Trust, Prof. Dave Muller, the Principal of Suffolk College, and the other Trustees.

Click here to download speech (pdf version) by Claire Webb, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UEA.

Click here to download speech (pdf version) by Eleanor Barker, one of the trustees.