Health Charities That specialise in Visual impairment

we are providing Sightboxes for Visually impaired children in the 3rd world countries to help go a long way in education and segregation

Provision of information to partially sighted and blind people by way of "Talking Newspapers"

Producing a two weekly edition of the local newspaper onto tape for blind and partially sited people.

The Preservation And Protection Of Good Health For The Public Benefit, In Particular But Not Exclusively By Providing Financial Support And Assistance For The Prevention And Control Of Blindness And Corrective Surgery For Eye Defects Or Diseases Such As Cataracts.

Wyre Forest Talking Newspaper provides weekly audio tapes of extracts from local newspapers in the Wyre Forest area of Worcestershire (Kidderminster, Stourport,Bewdley). This service is for blind and visually impaired people of the area. It is also for people for whom handling a traditional newspaper is difficult/impossible by reason of some other disability. The service is provided by volunteers

Weekly provision of recorded media to registered visually impaired persons in the Rossendale area, which contain information and news from the local paper and also magazine type articles. Electronic readers are supplied where necessary.

Social and Welfare group for persons with any kind of sight problems.

Holding and managing land within the townships of Eaglesfield and Blind Bothel, Cumbria, upon which a primary school is situated, for the benefit of education of children at the school.

To raise funds to assist with the expenses of activity groups within the charity to/at/during respective activities.

Provision of fortnightly extracts from local newspapers and media to registered blind and partially sighted recipients of our recordings in the North Dorset and South Wiltshire areas, edited and produced by volunteers.

To provide a weekly talking newspaper and a monthly talking magazine service on USB microstick.web site and internet radio, to app 300 blind or partially sighted in the West Shropshire area. Our newspaper and magazine last up to 90 miniutes

Improving the experience of blind and partially sighted attenders at cultural and leisure activities by supporting provision of audio description services, in particular raising standards of provision through the creation of Audio Description curricula for training purposes and new trainees.

Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper for the Blind & Partially sighted has been operating since 1978 & has circa 150 clients from Eastwood - North; Castle Donington - South; Beeston - East; Borrowash - West and beyond via their website www.longeatontn.org.uk & ALEXA. An audio memory stick in posted out every three weeks with 20hours of content. A memory stick player is provided FOC if required.

Production and distribution of approximately 200 memory sticks containing local news each week to the blind and partially sighted in the Tendring area.

Provision of weekly local news on memory sticks for vision impaired people living in or having a connection with the Tandridge area.

We record all the main news from the two local newspapers on to memory sticks and post these to visually impaired people throughout North Somerset every week. We supply every listener with a USB memory stick player free of charge.

Providing a weekly newspaper on compact disc or memory stick to blind or partially sighted persons in the North Norfolk area

Promoting social interaction of visually impaired and sighted people through physical or mental recreation, including, but not by way of limitation, tandem bicycle riding.

Provide a social club, with refreshments, entertainment and outings. Provide transport for members to attend club and outings. Home visiting offering help and advice to visually impaired members to enable them to continue to live independently and to enjoy their life to the full.The club is run and organised purely by volunteers who contribute greatly to the success of the club.

BridgeVIS provides information, advice and services to blind and partially sighted people in the Bridgend borough. It also advices and represents this group of people on statutory, public and private organisations.

outdoor and indoor bowls and associated activities for the visually impaired

We are a small club in existance for over 15 years which caters for the visually handicapped living in the York area We have at the present time approx 30 members. We are a voluntary association meeting fortnightly for coffee/tea and a social chat and occasionally we have mid-week outings to places of local interest We use our own mini-bus for both activities.

The Shropshire and Mid-Wales Head and Neck Charity has been established with the aim of providing facilities, equipment and training to treat patients (children and adults) with Head and Neck conditions. This includes ear and hearing problems, nose problems, cataract and eye problems, mouth and throat problems as well as major head and neck cancers.

We are all volunteers who record the local news on tape every week for blind persons. We read and record on a Monday evening and our listeners receive a tape the next day. We also send out a magazine on tape 4 times a year.

Since 2002 activities of WNF were carried out by the Mr Antony Winston Netto ( now deceased ) and now by Dr C M Netto and Mr V Netto. Both secondary school and Master of Social Work students are supported financially/educationally/in interpersonal skills. They are encouraged to inculcate empathy for blind people and others less fortunate than themselves.