Health Charities That specialise in Visual impairment
Discover 346 Health charities that specialise in visual impairment. Use the search below to filter within these results.
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Telephones For The Blind Fund
HealthThe fund exists to help to provide communication devices and services for those who are registered blind or visually impaired and are on low income, enabling many blind and visually impaired people to live independently.
West Cumbria Society For The Blind
Associations, Health1 We provide a Resource & information Centre open 9am-5pm Mon to Friday. 2 We provide an outreach visiting service and social clubs for blind or partially sighted.
Help The Child
Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, HealthHelp the Child raises funds through a number of events throughout the year, with the purpose of providing items of specialist equipment and educational toys for children with special educational needs, physical disability or sensory impairment within Somerset.
Isle Of Ely Society For The Blind
Associations, Health, Social welfareTo provide assistance,advice,support and social activities for blind and partially sighted persons who are resident in the old county of the "Isle of Ely".
Shanklin Rifle And Pistol Club
Education, HealthThe Club has existed since 1903 to teach all members to use firearms safely & and to a high standard of competence. We accept people of all ages and capabilities and of either gender.We accept wheel chair bound people where this is compatible with out range capabilities and are developing a facility for blind shooters. We have strong links with the Scout Movement and local High Schools.
Pembrokeshire Blind Society
Charitable activities, Health, Social welfareTo promote the material mental and spiritual welfare of persons within the County of Pembrokeshire who are suffering from blindness, total or registered. It makes grants of clothing, equipment, and gifts of any kind whatsoever or otherwise to or for the benefit of such persons by arranging for them to be visited wherever they may be, and by arranging transport, trips or holidays for them.
Blackburn And District Blind Society
HealthTo provide welfare services to the blind and partially sighted within the local government districts of Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley.
Oxford Mission
Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Health, Housing, Social careFounded in 1880. In Behala, India it funds: an orphanage for 135+ boys between the ages of 4 & 15, educated & taught music; old peoples home; ENT/eye clinics.It funds in Bangladesh: Barisal - high & primary schools, boys & girls hostels, girls orphanage & a medical centre; Jobarpar - an indigenous sisterhood (CSS), oversees girls hostel & a play centre & helps in the diocesan primary school.
The Norwich Talking Newspaper
Arts, Charity and VCS support, HealthChatterbox, the Norwich Talking Newspaper provides weekly recordings of the Eastern Evening News. As well as the weekly news we provide relevant information and details of upcoming events plus a special Christmas edition and quarterly magazine recording. We also supply equipment to play the recordings on. This is all created by a dedicated team volunteers and has been in operation since 1979.
Mountfield Village Hall
Arts, Associations, Charity and VCS support, Facilities, Health, Leisure, Social welfareFor use of inhabitants of the Parish of Mountfield and surrounding areas as a meeting place for village activities and recreations, such as parish council, social club, horticultural society, blind club, community transport, painting classes, dancing classes, birthday parties, wedding receptions, funeral wakes, fund raising activities.
Bromley And District Talking Newspaper Association
Arts, HealthThe provision of a free weekly talking newspaper "Bromley District Talking News" on Memory Stick to the blind and partially sighted residents or former residents of the borough of Bromley.
Wealden Talking News
Arts, HealthProduction and provision of audio editions of local newspapers to visually impaired. Production and provision of audio magazines to visually impaired. Facilities also used to convert written data to audio versions for other local charities, e.g. East Sussex Association for the Blind, Care for the Carers, etc.
The Cotswold Listener
Arts, HealthRecords and distributes a weekly talking newspaper and magazine on CD, memory stick and via website to approximately 165 visually impaired listeners in Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and North Cotswolds.
Redditch And Bromsgrove Talking Newspaper
Arts, Health, LeisureTo provide a weekly talking newspaper, containing local news and other useful information including local and national government bulletins on social matters; community safety; environment; transport and leisure. The newspaper is distributed on USB memory sticks and uploaded onto the BWBF streamed service for accessing through the Talking Newspaper app and on smart speakers such as Alexa.
Merton Sports And Social Club For Visually Impaired People
Associations, Charity and VCS support, Health, Leisure, Social welfareMSSC is a sports and social club for visually impaired people and sighted members. We run regular cycling, walking, bowls, darts, swimming, canoeing and social activities including quizzes, theatres, brewery tours and much more from our base in Colliers Wood, Merton. We try to partner with other organisations in Merton and beyond that support us through fundraising and shared activities.
Rotherham Talking Newspaper
Arts, HealthProvision of local news on audio cassette, memory stick or CD for blind or visually impaired people in the local area. Also provision of weekly and monthly audio magazines
Swindon Blind Association
Associations, Health, LeisureCraft Club - Tuesdays 10 am - 1 pm Principally cane work, but any other craft work is encouraged.Social Club - Wednesday 2 - 4 pm Entertainment provided by either visiting performers or activities such as dominoes or bingo.
London Sports Club For The Blind
Health, LeisurePROMOTES AND ORGANISES SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE.SWIMMING,BOWLING,ROWING,KAYAKING,SKIING AND activity HOLIDAYS
The Plymouth And West Devon Cassette Talking Newspaper
Arts, Health'Plymouth & West Devon Cassette talking Newspaper' creates and distributes audio cassettes of local or relevant news items on a weekly basis to blind folk in the Plymouth and West Devon Area. There are currently about 200 registered users of the service for which no charge is made.
Joseph Clarke School Trust
Beneficiary group, Education, Health, LeisureTo provide such special benefits of any kind not normally provided by the Local Education Authority for Joseph Clarke School for the visually impaired of London E4 9PP. To educate and assist visually impaired young persons through their leisure time activities to develop their physical mental and spiritual capacities.
Cymdeithas Ceredigion I'r Deillion / Ceredigion Association For The Blind
HealthSupporting the needs of the blind and partially sighted living within the county of Ceredigion. Working in conjunction with Ceredigion Social Services, and Wales Council for the Blind.
Wirral Talking Newspaper
Arts, HealthTo provide local news, information and items of general interest in an audio format to members of the blind and partially sighted community on the Wirral.
St Edmundsbury Newstalk Association
HealthWe are a local charity for the Blind & Partially Sighted in the West Suffolk Council area. We provide weekly audio newsletters on digital memory stick, containing news extracted from local newspapers, and bi-monthly audio magazines containing interviews, short stories and articles of local interest.The service is free of charge to Listeners including the supply of digital players.
The Fraser Trust
HealthTo assist Blind Veterans UK in providing life-long care for men and women blinded in the service of their country to achieve independent, fulfilling and meaningful lives following blindness.
The Diocesan Digest Sound Magazine Of Lichfield Cathedral
Arts, Health, ReligionProvide a mailing of tapes or memory sticks monthly to visually impaired recipients giving details of activities within the Lichfield diocese which we feel may be of interest. These are mainly of a religious nature.
Frequently asked questions about this sector
How many visual-impairment health charities are there in the UK?
There are 346 registered visual-impairment health charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.
Which is the largest of the visual-impairment health charities by income?
Nuffield Health is the largest by latest reported annual income (£1.5bn). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.
What is the combined annual income of visual-impairment health charities?
Visual-impairment health charities reported a combined annual income of £13.5bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.
What is a typical program ratio for visual-impairment health charities?
Across all visual-impairment health charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 87.2%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.
What is the average annual income of visual-impairment health charities?
Visual-impairment health charities have an average annual income of £3.6m. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.
Where does this data come from?
All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.