Members of the Osmond family today brought music to the ears of children, parents and staff at a Bradford family centre which supports pre-school children with hearing loss.

Earlier this year, the world-famous Osmond family set up a new foundation in the UK – The Hearing Fund UK – to raise money for children living with hearing loss and their families.

The family has a unique insight into hearing loss. It was the dream of the late Olive Osmond to help deaf children around the world as two of her sons – Virl and Tom – were deaf.

Her grandson Justin, who is also 90 per cent deaf, set up the Olive Osmond Hearing Fund in the US in honour of his grandmother and is now seeing the fund spread its reach to the UK.

Each year it will choose a registered charity in the UK to be the beneficiary of its funds. The first charity partner is The Elizabeth Foundation, a national charity with two family centres for deaf children and their families – one of which is in Smith Lane, Bradford.

The Osmond family arrived in the UK yesterday for a week-long visit, the highlight of which will be a gala weekend to raise money for The Elizabeth Foundation.

As part of the trip Merrill Osmond, 35-year-old Justin and Shane, 33, visited the Bradford family centre to find out where the money they raise will be spent. They were shown round the facility and took time to interact and speak with the children and their parents.