Our History

Significan’t started in 2003 as an international sign language interpreting agency led by Brigitte Francois.

In 2004, Jeff McWhinney, former CEO of the British Deaf Association, was recruited to help us harness Videoconferencing over the internet to provide a ground-breaking video interpreting service. Our social enterprise began to take shape, and in September 2004, the SignVideo Contact Centre was born.

Based in London, SignVideo expanded quickly, growing to become the UK leader in sign language video interpreting. By May 2007, it had distributed over 500 videoconferencing units to customers in the UK and Europe.

SignVideo has always been committed to delivering the highest levels of service and support to its customers. Today we provide services for the National Health Service, Local and National Government Agencies, Voluntary Organisations, Deaf businesses and Deaf individuals in their workplaces.

Before long, our team believes that the SignVideo interpreting service will be a widely available feature of all public services.

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