Health Charities That specialise in Visual impairment

The Accessible Friends Network (TAFN) provides support, training and social activities run by and for blind and visually impaired people, via the internet and VoIP conferencing.

Provision of CDs containing local news and interviews to anyone with reading difficulties, who is blind or partially sighted or has a disability which makes reading difficult. This service is offered free, weekly, all year round.

Provision of indoor bowling facilities and coach outings plus transport to enable members to attend.

To offer financial assistance to blind and partially sighted residents of Solihull Borough. To provide social activities, outings and holidays to blind and partially sighted residents of Solihull Borough and to organise and manage a weekly craft class for residents of the Solihull Borough.

Talking newspaper for the visually impaired

WE OPERATE IN WALTON ON THAMES IN THE ELMGROVE SPORTS CENTRE.WE PLAY INDOOR AND OUTDOOR BOWLS WEEKLY. AND HAVE SOCIAL EVENTS

HE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:1) PROVIDING PRACTICAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT TO VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES; AND2) RAISING AWARENESS AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT ALL ASPECTS OF VISUAL IMPAIRMENT.

Our team of volunteers produces a weekly audio recording of local news and magazines which is copied onto memory sticks and provided free of charge, by post, to the blind or partially sighted, or those labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain, in the Stevenage and North Hertfordshire areas. We also loan them a player to listen to the stick.

1. To advance development, particularly, but not exclusively in the fields of education, health and disability in Nepal as the Trustees see fit.2. To promote formal education for visually impaired children in Ilam, Nepal and other regions in Nepal as the Trustees see fit.3. To support the work of Sahayatra Nepal in Ilam, Nepal by providing resources for selected projects.

WE RUN A YOUTH CLUB FOR BLIND AND SIGHT IMPAIRED CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS. WE MEET EVERY FRIDAY EVENING WHERE THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS CAN SOCIALISE WE ALSO TAKE THEN FOR DAYS OUT AND HOLIDAYS. WE HAVE OUR OWN MINI BUS WHICH COLLECTS THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS FROM THEIR HOMES AND RETURNS THEM, THE MINI BUS IS ALSO USED TO TAKE THE YOUNG ADULTS AND CHILDREN FOR DAYS OUT AND HOLIDAYS

RTN provides a free weekly audio edition on USB memory stick for the blind and partially sighted who live in Redbridge and those who lived in Redbridge and have moved out of the borough but want to stay in touch. The edition contains both local news and magazine features.

CDTN provides weekly audio versions of local newspaper content for the visually impaired in County Durham, and, in some cases, neighbouring areas. Listeners sometimes contribute with their recorded stories or audio-book reviews. The service is run solely by volunteers and is completely free.

Financial aid to elderly poor, sick and blind people living in Coggeshall. This aid usually takes the form of a small gift of money at Christmas time. Occasaionaly small amounts of money are also granted to people, who fit the criteria, at other times to help them buy goods or services which improve their quality of life.

We produce a weekly edition of local news and features, and a bimonthly magazine that are sent,free of charge, with a listening device, to visually handicapped people. We record on memory sticks which are mailed in a free Royal Mail package.

A charity organisation that record selected extracts from the Welwyn & Hatfield Times on to CD for blind, partially sighted people, and those who have difficulty in reading due to temporary or permanent incapacity.

Recording and distributing news from local newspapers and items of general interest to those who have a disability which prevents them from reading written text for themselves. This is mainly in Banbury and the surrounding Oxfordshire district, but we have listeners in Northants, Warwickshire and further afield where ex Banbury residents have requested.

Each week, a team of readers records the Hexham Courant, Tynedale's local newspaper, for distribution to blind and partially sighted people, and to other disabled people unable to read a printed newspaper. Recordings are copied onto memory sticks, and posted on Friday evenings. Listeners return the sticks to be re-used for the following week's recording. We normally have around 100 listeners.

Recording news for blind and partially sighted listeners.

Relieving the blind and partially blind, or those labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain, by the provision of recorded tapes or by other oral means.

Weekly distribution of news and current events on electronic media to blind and partially-sighted people.

Providing local news and magazine items for the blind and partially sighted on a weekly / bimonthly basis in a bi lingual format...Welsh / English

Provider of audio entertainment for the visually impaired

Provides a weekly recording of news & information, gathered from the local press and disseminated to those whose sight is impaired or who have a temporary or permanent condition that inhibits their ability to read a newspaper.

Provides a free weekly audio recorded digest of local news, plus a regular magazine edition and a regular information bulletin, each distributed alternately every three weeks, to sight impaired and severely sight impaired listeners. Provided on usb memory stick, CD, via BWFB, Amazon Alexa and dialup telephone. A free usb memory stick player is also supplied where required

Building suitable for an eye clinic with accommodation for medical staff has been constructed in Kondavil Sri Lanka. Purchase of the necessary equipment has been made . We have recruited locally trained and registered doctors for the eye clinic.Approval has been obtained for the eye clinic in Kondavil and for a mobile clinic. COVID has disrupted activities and 3 clinics have now been held.