Health Charities That specialise in Visual impairment

PROVISION OF EYE CARE WITH SPECIALIST CLINICS; SPECTACLE DISPENSING; CONTACT LENS FITTING; EDUCATION FOR THE PROFESSION; RESEARCH

The Charity's object and its principal activity is to provide a range of social and educational programmes and services that provides projects for children, young people and adults with physical disabilities, sensory disabilities, autism and/or learning disabilities.

1. Day / 4 night residential education[full National Curriculum]for children with visual impairment age 4 - 19 at St Vincent's School. Mobility/independence/speech/language/music therapy included.2. Residential and nursing care, including palliative care, at Christopher Grange.3.A wide portfolio of community based and rehabilitation services at Bradbury Fields and Sight Loss Learning Hub.

The charity aims to provide high quality, innovative services to blind, visually impaired and those with profound disabilities across the West Midlands. It intends to become known as a centre of excellence, working in partnership with others to develop pathways of care and support that achieve the best possible outcomes for people.

1 Advocacy to influence government policy, health systems and resourcing decisions at global, regional and national levels 2 Promotion of knowledge and learning so Members are more able to contribute to eye health3 Generate resources sufficient to enable Members to deliver the strategy4 Global initiatives that bring value and enhance collaboration to achieve universal eye health coverage

To provide a retirement home for blind and partially sighted persons and to promote their welfare, but insofar as there is a vacancy in the home which could not be filled by a blind person, such vacancies may be filled by an elderly person who in the opinion of the directors is in need of the accommodation and services provided by the Charity

Action Deafness (AD) specialises in business solutions services such as communications interpreting, community support & engagement, sign language training and deaf awareness for service users/consumers who are deaf, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing (D/deaf). Our services operating throughout the UK, 7 days a week. In addition we host meeting place for local social groups.

Deafblind UK has supported those with dual sensory loss since 1928, helping them overcome the unique set of challenges they face every single day. We offer complimentary membership, with all our services being delivered free of charge. We help to reduce loneliness and isolation, and promote social inclusion, thereby allowing people who are deafblind to live their lives with dignity and purpose.

Sight for Surrey (the trading name for Surrey Association for Visual Impairment) works with people who are vision impaired, Deaf, Hard of Hearing or who have combined sight and hearing loss. The charity has provided support to vision impaired people since 1922, and those with combined sight and hearing loss since 1993. It began to deliver services to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in February 2016.

St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital is the main provider of eye care in the West Bank and Gaza. The Charity's focuses on the relief of sickness and the preservation and protection of health, in particular, but not exclusively, by maintenance and development of its centres and the clinical, teaching and research activities connected therewith.

Domiciliary care is provided for up to 71 elderly blind and partially sighted persons. Up to 400 blind and partially sighted persons attend our Day Centre each week to participate in stimulating and therapeutic activities. We provide Community Services to blind and partially sighted persons residing in the Midlands area. We facilitate employment opportunities for visually impaired people.

The Charity provides a comrehensive range of services to support visually impaired people in the city of Sheffield.

Support for blind and partially sighted people and the prevention of sight loss, particularly throughout Kent, Medway and the London Boroughs of Bromley and Bexley.

Our objectives are to help prevent glaucoma blindness and support people living with glaucoma. We:Provide information, advice and support through a telephone helpline and online forum.Publish a wide range of booklets and leaflets and distribute regular newsletters.Fund glaucoma researchRun support groups, conferences & awareness raising activities for patients and professionals.

The charity supports visually impaired people who live within Barrow-in-Furness and the surrounding area. The organisation provides information and advice to visually impaired people and to their families and carers, provides visually impaired people with a range of welfare support and social activities, promotes awareness of sight loss issues and supports people within a residential home.

Provides training, development, support and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities, as well as those that are disadvantaged, economically inactive or unemployed.

We support people affected by inherited progressive sight loss and invest in medical research to ensure that people can lead a fulfilling life.

Making grants to individuals and charitable organisations to advance the life prospects, independence and education of blind and vision impaired children, young people and adults aged 25 and under who are resident in the United Kingdom.

The Society's principal activities are to support people with a visual impairment by providing community care and rehabilitation, residential care and housing, talking newspapers and general advice and guidance.

An independent and secular professional development organisation that aims to promote and preserve good health of the public anywhere in the world, with particular focus on eye care in developing countries.

The Charity aims are the relief and support of vulnerable people, including those with learning or physical disabilities or difficulties, mental health problems, or sensory impairment and those who support or care for them, living in the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, and to enable them to lead the lives they choose in the community.

Provides a specialist community centre, practical and emotional support, information, outreach and advice to people with hearing loss, of all faiths or none. Services include day centre, social/cultural activities and support/advocacy services for Deaf/Deafblind British Sign Language users, Deaf Awareness training/support for care homes, technology room, lipreading classes and family services

Our aim is to enhance the lives of physically disabled adults and those with cognitive and sensory impairment, to support them to live life to the full. We provide social activities to connect people, build friendships, reducing loneliness and isolation. We encourage people to develop new skills and achieve independence. We develop opportunities for people to improve their health and wellbeing.

Provide accommodation and care, a community visiting service and educational and recreational facilities to blind and partially sighted people in Norfolk.

The Associations principle acitivities are the residential home (care home) carried out at Healey House, full day provision at the John Taplin Centre, social and rehabilitation acitivites in Bexhill, Mountfield and at clubs run by the association, together with the provision of advice, information and support ro visually impaired people of all ages living in Hastings and Rother areas.