Health Charities That specialise in Visual impairment

WCB is the umbrella agency in Wales representing blind and partially sighted people and the clubs and societies that support them. We gather the opinions and views of people with sight loss through groups and consultation. We put their voice at the centre of what we do, reporting their views to the people who are responsible for the services that help them. We signpost people to these services.

Touchdown Dance is a professional dance company of visually impaired and sighted dancers. Our aim to provide the opportunity for visually impaired people to participate in dance with sighted or other disabled people. We run workshops in schools, health and art settings and tour in the UK and abroad. We welcome commissions and collaborations. We provide information in Braille and large print.

Prevention of childhood blindness in India.Educational services and healthcare.

Travel Hands charity relieves the needs of Visually Impaired People (VIP) by facilitating safe, convenient, and inexpensive outdoor travel so they can attend formal appointments, recreational activities and community events.Travel Hands eases the outdoor commute of VIP by pairing them with sighted & verified volunteers to walk together to similar destinations.

The objective is to provide intra-ocular lens surgery in the cure of cataract blindness to the poor of the Developing World, with the objective of providing the sustainable training of opthalmologists.

We organise outdoor activity courses (climbing, caving, canoeing, cycling, triathlon, sailing) for visually impaired adults from all over the UK. We organise expeditions involving these activities. We act as hub connecting visually impaired adults and sighted guides. We facilitate groups of visually impaired adults to organise their own trips and expeditions.

The relief of need among visually impaired people and people who have suffered as a result of war and natural disaster, activities to support empowerment of women and children in the North and East Sri Lanka.

Offering a listening, caring, supportive, service for all Visually Impaired People in the Warrington area.Providing a suitable resource centre, offering equipment, advice, and information.Co Operating in and supporting the work of the official visitors of the Visually Impaired.Arranging suitable activities for Visually Impaired, with the object of improving their quality of life.

To relieve the needs of the visually impaired across Suffolk for the public benefit by providing the best support and care so that they can lead rich and fulfilling lives with the highest level of independence and by promoting this objective to members, beneficiaries and the wider communities in which it operates.

Provide advice on specialist equipment, access to social activities, emotional support, access to technology, small grants and information services. The charity operates from a central hub with telephone and on-line support offering practical solutions and also provides a venue for people affected by sight loss to come together.

The function of this charity's work in Tanzania is the furtherance of the education of students at the Anglican Diocese of Central Tanganyika's Mvumi Secondary School and the Buigiri Primary School for the Blind, by way of grants to the schools and bursaries and scholarships to the students. The work of the charity can extend to other purposes as shall be exclusively charitable .

Vision StatementTo spread and advance the playing of chess among blind and partially sighted people throughout the United Kingdom by organising tournaments and providing coaching and reference material. Also we provide, at subsidised cost, tactile chess sets and talking digital chess clocks.

To develop disability sports for children with physical, learning and sensory disabilities and provide education to enable such children to gain new skills and maximise their potential. To provide advocacy services for such families to assist them to access services which meet their needs. To provide recreational / social ctivities for the elderly in order to reduce lonlinness in the community

Hi-Vis UK is raising awareness and increasing support for people with acquired dual sensory loss (deafblindness)

Resources & professional development activities for professionals working with children with VI. Website with access to the American Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. Professional networks, annual national conference, representation to Government on issues about the education of children with VI. Funds provide research. VIEW acts as a partner for relevant teacher training courses.

The Association is established for the recreation of the blind by the provision of training in golf facilities so as to improve the conditions of life. We also arrange golfing events for our members.

Resource Centre offering wide range of specialist equipment for sensory impaired people, Information Technology Suite with qualified tutor, gym, social and activity groups, assistance with completing forms, lending library, own mini-bus, outreach work.

The provision of training, facilities, horses and equipment to encourage and facilitate the participation in equestrian sporting activities by people with physical, mental or sensory disabilities.

The Charity 's main activity is grant-giving, principally for the relief of those in need by reason of vision impairment and/or sight loss and the advancement of study, knowledge and education in the field of optics for the public benefit, including the promotion of research in the field of optics and the publication of the useful results.

Services offered include home visiting service,cookery/handicraft/social and computer skills sessions, hold a monthly book club. We have a resource centre with specialist equipment. Produce a newsletter and a talking newspaper. We provide information to access benefits/allowances/health care services and assistance with paperwork. People can self-refer or use our drop-in/telephone enquiry service.

The relief of carers and former carers of people with physical, learning, mental or sensory impairment or illness or incapacity through old age.

Sightline provides a free confidential telephone befriending service for visually impaired people (befriendees). Sightline focuses its service delivery in England and Wales. The service is delivered by a team of trained volunteers (befrienders), many of whom are themselves visually impaired. A befriendee is matched to a befriender who then have a weekly chat at a date/time that suits both parties.

The ClearVision Project is a national postal lending library of over 10,000 children's books with the text added in braille so that the books can be shared by print and braille reading children and adults. ClearVision currently lends books to over 600 families, schools, nurseries, colleges, Sensory Support Services and public libraries all over the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The charity's objectives are to promote improved ocular health in the primary care sector and to educate the public about ocular health and good vision, and the ways of achieving this.

To 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.