What We Do

Recently Supported Projects

Royal Society for Blind Children: for a Braille Embosser
Al Manarah Association: for the provision of audiobooks in Arabic
International Centre for Eye Health: for the publication of the Surgical Skills series of the ‘Community Eye Health Journal’
Braille Chess Association: for general support of their activities
Happy Days: theatre and pantomime tickets for VI children
Literature Wales for their ‘A Brighter Future’ project
Sight Loss Leisure Group: for a trip and for speakers/singers at their meetings
VocalEyes: training of audio describers from black & ethnically diverse backgrounds
Allexton Nursery: toys for VI children
Change Foundation: to enable female VIPs to participate in rugby
Sedbergh Youth & Community Centre: equipment for their United Insight project
Royal National College for the Blind: towards a minibus
Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity: sensory toys for VI children
Calibre: memory sticks and postal wallets for their audiobook library
Hands Around the World: to provide refurbished laptops for VI students in Kenya
Coventry Resource Centre for the Blind: a pledge towards a minibus
Malawi University of Science & Technology: for resources for their VI students
Right to Sight & Health, Ghana: solar panels at the Northern Community Eye Hospital
Ruharo Mission Hospital Eye Centre, Uganda: for retinoblastoma services
UN ABPAM, Burkina Faso: for computers and other resources for VIP students
Walthew House: for their website development work
Sightline Vision (North West) Ltd: for their Telephone Befriending Service
VI Talk: to run Qigong classes over Zoom.
Choose Nature: for sensory garden planting and accessible hammocks for disabled visitors.
Royal Court Liverpool Trust: for hardware and software development to enable audio described performances
Be the Band: for accessible musical instruments, and hardware & software development
Nepal Leprosy Trust: to expand ocular services and integrating optical aids dispensary at Lalghad Leprosy Hospital
MySight York: to fund adaptive equipment at the new Sight Support Centre at York Eye Clinic
BLESMA: to support their Welfare & Wellbeing programme to help visually impaired limbless ex-service people
University of Surrey: to fund research into an artificial full-colour retina
Reading Agency: a further two years funding for their Reading Friends project
Books for All: for Braille & tactile books in various languages to 200 schools in India
Tshemba Foundation: to fund eye camps in South Africa
Orbis: towards establishing five women-led vision centres in rural Bangladesh
University of St Andrews: a project to support non-ophthalmologists in Indonesia who will detect diabetic retinopathy
Wirral Community Narrowboat Trust: to provide narrowboat trips for VIP children from local blind schools
Lancashire Lions VI Sports Club: for their weekly activity sessions
Greenwich Libraries: to support their Vision of Choice programme to provide equipment which will give VIPs new options in reading
Festival.org to expand the provision for VIP audiences at the Greenwich & Docklands International Festival
John Fawcett Foundation: to fund eye operations in Bali
InterCare: to fund the shipment of medical supplies to Tanzania & Malawi
Share the Vision (STV): to support the Ulverscroft Foundation & STV Strategic Partnership for three years 2024 to 2027
Embrace the Middle East: working with a local partner Life Vision for Development to support 175 young VIPs in Minya, upper Egypt.
Microphthalmia Anophthalmia & Coloboma Support (MACS): for an adventure holiday at the Calvert Trust.
Pleasance Theatre Trust Ltd: for audio description equipment.
Leicester Visually Impaired Bowling Club: towards raising the profile of the sport & the provision of equipment.
Teesside & District Society for the Blind: for new chairs for their Social Centre.
Vision Northumberland: for equipment for their Low Vision Service.
Outlook Trust for Visually Impaired: towards a sailing week.
Sutton Vision: for the purchase/upgrading of assistive technology demonstration equipment.
Kenya Albino Child Support Unit, Kenya: for seating and for a milking machine & freezer for the farm’s milk to improve sustainability.
Andean Medical Mission: for their glaucoma service in northern Bolivia
Ribble Valley Visually Impaired: to run recreational activities & workshops for visually impaired people
Life Cycle: for tandem rides for VIPs in the Bristol area
Vision of Adventure: to run courses on outdoor activities for VIPs & to also run a sighted guide training weekend.
Open Sight Hampshire: towards running Smart Devices Workshops for VIPs
EthiopiAid: to provide eye health care to 300 elders and to support 25 VIPs at a local health clinic in Ethiopia.
University of Leicester: establishing standardised care using a multicentre collaborative approach for Paediatric Eye Diseases over three years from 2024
MoorVision: for accessible sports & activities for young VIPs
Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind: a pledge of funding towards a demonstration kitchen at their Rotherham centre
Vision Action: for their optical training workshops in Zambia
CBM: for their eye health project for young people in Zimbabwe
St Vincent’s School for Sensory Impairment: for Sight Boxes to enable overseas students to access sports & educational activities
Middlesex Association for the Blind to train members in IT in their own homes
Living Paintings Trust: for new titles for their Touch See Book Clubs
4 Sight Vision Support: for a low vision assessment kit
Warwickshire Vision Support: for demonstration equipment
Bucks Vision: towards their Home Support & Befriending Service
Mondo Foundation: to enable 36 pupils in Tanzania to have hospital visits, glasses prescribed & eye treatment
Sight Loss Shropshire: for their Digital Tech Service
Time & Talents: towards enhancing their VIP group by providing activities & supportCAM Sight: for equipment for their Assistive Technology Team
Clinique Ophtalmologique St Raphael, D.R. Congo: for cataract operations & outreach missions
Feed the Minds: for ICT skills training & literacy training to visually impaired women in Uganda
Living Options Devon: to enable them to run VIP book clubs
Henshaws: for their ‘I Can Do It’ life skills courses
Sight Support West of England: for their Resource Centre in the North West of the county
NAB: to run book clubs
Insight Gloucestershire: for magnifiers for their Resource Centre & outreach sessions
Alive & Kicking: for equipment to enable VIPs in Kenya, Zambia & UK to play ball games
Orchestra of the Swan: towards a project working with students at Priestly Smith School to compose & perform a piece of work to a professional standard
Blind in Business: for the technology element of a project to enable young VIPs to have work experience
Kent Association for the Blind: towards the cost of Iris, their Mobile Sight Centre community vehicle
Second Sight: to fund solar panels in two hospitals in India. the grant will enable the hospitals to carry out more eye operations and treatments
Bangladesh Protibandi Unnayan Sangstha (BPUS), Bangladesh: for their Economic & Self Employment Development Project
Braille Chess Association: to enable VIPs to continue enjoy playing chess
Wirral Society of the Blind & Partially Sighted: to fund digital workshops & to upgrade software and hardware
Berkshire Vision: for demonstration equipment i.e. We Walk Smart Cane & Onyx Smart Glasses
Fife Society for the Blind: for accessible technology demonstration equipment
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: for a special edition of the Community Eye Health Journal in print & online & development of online training resources on eye surgery
Walsall Society for the Blind: for demonstration equipment
Accrington & District Blind Society (ELVIN): for hardware for their Sight Resource Centre
Advantage Africa: to support 65 young people with oculocutaneous albinism in Uganda
Leicester Hospitals Charity: DEAPP project to provide access to diabetes education for children with visual impairments, or who might develop a visual impairment
Childhood Eye Cancer Trust: to support children with retinoblastoma & their families
Sight Advice South Lakes: to enable their quarterly magazine to be published in large print, audio & online
Torch Trust for the Blind: to enable their Christian Literature Service to offer large print, Braille & audio versions of their books
Walthew House: towards the costs of producing and distributing accessible information to visually impaired people
Ulverscroft Vision Research Group: funding research into childhood eye disease to 2026
World Child Cancer: for retinoblastoma treatment in Ghana & Cameroon
IMET2000: to equip the Eye Clinic at Herona Hospital in Uganda & to run the clinic for 12 months
RAF Association: for their Air Mail Newsletter
4 Sight Vision Support: for Low Vision Kits
Medic to Medic: to train optometrists in Malawi over three years
Mondo Foundation: for beds & glasses for the students at the Longido Blind Unit in Tanzania, & Braille paper & for servicing of Braille equipment.
University of Leicester: research into Optical Coherence Tomography in children
Queen’s University Belfast: Ulverscroft Chair in in Global Eye Health Transitional Research for Equitable Eye Care: TREE programme
Newcastle University: clinical research funding into improving corneal healing via modulation of tissue
University of Liverpool: research into the treatment of glaucoma
Second Sight: to build a floor at the Laxman Eye Hospital in India
Ruharo Eye Centre: retinoblastoma project and outreach work in Uganda
London School of Hygiene & Tropical medicine: surgical training programme in Africa
Foresight Gardening Enterprises: gardening equipment
Ulverscroft David Owen Prize: a book prize awarded to a trainee ophthalmologist
Sheffield Visually Impaired Walking Group: volunteer expenses & transport costs
Sight for Surrey: equipment to produce their magazines & also marketing material for their Living with Sight Loss events
Open Country: replacement tandems & equipment for their Tandem Clubs
Charnwood Talking News: laptops, players & USBs used to produce their talking newspapers
Blind Cricket England & Wales: equipment & transport costs
Extant: Pathways Programme over three years to enable visually impaired people to access training in the performing arts
Bromley Talking News: equipment & studio costs to enable production of their talking newspapers
World Medical Education: for video-based multimedia education on eye diseases
Living Paintings Trust: to support ‘Touch to See’ book clubs
Deafblind Scotland: Follow the Leader courses for mental health & wellbeing
Southend on Sight: towards the annual cost of their Newsletters
Improving Lives Plymouth: to update their IT demonstration equipment
North East Sensory Services: towards updating their equipment & software needed for their transcription services
Listening Books: to support memberships
Devon Development Education: to complete a hostel at Katente West School, Uganda
Sense International: for specialist eye equipment in Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda
Scarbocchia: for sports equipment
Walsall Society for the Blind: for a computer & software to produce their talking newspapers & magazines
Devon in Sight: for assistive equipment for visually impaired people to borrow or try out
Coventry Resource Centre: for redevelopment of the Centre to provide more services to visually impaired people
Equation Nottingham: for Braille & large print contact cards for people in danger of abuse
Calibre: to support memberships of their audio library
The Courtyard Trust: for Braille signage
Henshaws Society for the Blind: for their I Can Do It courses and activities
Open Sight Hampshire: Early Years Family Support Group, Portsmouth
Wiltshire Sight: towards setting up a Resource Hub in Salisbury
Galloway’s Society for the Blind: equipment to demonstrate new technologies
Chailey Heritage Foundation: equipment to improve children’s functional vision
Bury Society for Blind & Partially Sighted People: towards developing their Information Hub
Sight for Surrey: for specialist demonstration equipment
Braille IT: for an Orbit Reader & Braille paper & Braille books

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