This list aims to give you an idea of the type of projects we supported.  All help visually impaired people (VIPs)

• 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
• Happy Days: for a residential trip to Legoland for visually impaired children
• 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
• The Reading Agency: support in year one for the Reading Friends Befriending Programme in libraries
• 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
• InterCare: Tanzania: the costs of shipping ophthalmic equipment to Tanzania
• 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
• Sightline Vision Northwest Ltd: to support their telephone befriending service into 2024
• 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 2024
• 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
• InterCare: for medicines and equipment for blind schools in Zambia
• Ulverscroft David Owen Prize: a book prize awarded to a trainee ophthalmologist. This prize, given in memory of our late chairman has been extended to 2023
• 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
• John Fawcett Foundation: to fund cataract operations in Bali
• 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
• Leicester Visually Impaired Bowling Club: to encourage more visually impaired people to take up bowling
• Wirral Community Narrowboat Trust: narrowboat cruises
• 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
• Andean Medical Mission: elimination of avoidable blindness in Bolivia
• 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