CALMfest 2025 - Community and Collaboration for Good with Paul Burrows and Mick Wyldbore-Wood

​Join Sarah Markham, Founder of Calm In A Box, Paul Burrows, Headteacher at Royal School for the Deaf, Derby and Mick Wyldbore-Wood, Station Manager at Derbyshire Fire and Rescue.

​Who are Paul Burrows and Mick Wyldbore-Wood?
Paul Burrows is the Headteacher of the Royal School for the Deaf in Derby and with over 30 years of teaching experience, is a passionate advocate of collaborating across boundaries to benefit the deaf community. Mick Wyldbore-Wood is a Station Manager at Derbyshire Fire & Rescue as well as EDI lead.

​What will we be talking about?
We'll be discussing the power of collaboration and connection to help create a better and more inclusive world, where the outcomes really can mean life or death.

​Derbyshire Fire & Rescue are committed to ensuring their Deaf users have the same quality of provision, information, standards and right to be informed as others in the wider community.

​So when the Royal School for the Deaf in Derby recently worked with Derbyshire Fire & Rescue to train a network of firefighters in British Sign Language, there were some very special outcomes.

​What will you take away from this session?
Paul and Mick will be sharing some special stories about the power of investing in community at work and why thinking differently and more inclusively can bring about some extraordinary outcomes.