This list aims to give you an idea of the type of projects we supported in our last financial year. All help visually impaired people.
- GOSH/UCL Ulverscroft Vision Research Group: research funding to 2021
- University of Leicester: research funding into eye disease
- Queen’s University Belfast: Ulverscroft Chair in in Global Eye Health Transitional Research for Equitable Eye Care: TREE programme
- Ruharo Eye Centre: eye diagnosis & treatment in Uganda
- IMET 2000: to establish an eye clinic in Uganda
- Will Dean Surgical Training Programme: training eye surgeons in Africa
- University of Liverpool: for research into treatment of glaucoma
- Andean Medical Mission: to eliminate avoidable blindness in the Bolivian Amazon
- World Sight Foundation: for their work in Lesotho
- Orbis: for eye health work In Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi & Rwanda
- St Mary’s Hospital Manchester: for a digital scanner to examine eyes of newborn babies
- Seva Canada: For their fieldworker programme in Cambodia
- Newcastle University: clinical research funding into improving corneal healing
- Kenya Albino Child Support: for a library & computer room.
- Croydon Voluntary Association for the Blind: for transport
- Orchestra of the Swan: A Sound Education music project
- Calibre: for development of a download app & MP3CD duplicators for audio books
- Comprehensive Research Network: peer review of trainee research
- Royal Air Force Association: for their talking Airmail service
- Ulverscroft David Owen Prize: a book prize for trainee ophthalmologists in memory of our late chairman
- Bristol Braille Technology: sponsorship of their Canute Braille e-Readers
- Torridgeside Talking News: for equipment to produce & distribute their Talking Newspaper
- York Blind & Partially Sighted Society: for a USB duplicator to distribute newsletters & publications
- Warwickshire Vision Support: for their Vision Support Centres.
- Advantage Africa: for treating people with oculocutaneous albinism
- ClearVision Project: for books with Braille & text interleaved
- Pennine Bowling Club for Visually Impaired People: for transport
- Deafblind UK: for refurbishment of the garden at Rainbow Court
- Void: Seen: for the Unseen project to allow visually impaired people to explore art through touch
- Vocialise: audio description training programme
- Listening Books: to support memberships
- Bucks Vision: to make technology available to visually impaired people
- Leicester Visually Impaired Bowling: for transport
- Mondo Foundation: for the Longido Blind Unit Tanzania
- Sense International: for their work with deafblindness
- Guide Dogs: for the Customise large print book service
- Blind in Business: software & computer hardware for employment training
- Mary Rose Trust: for volunteer training
- Braille Chess Association: for their newsletter
- VICTA: to enable students to get Duke of Edinburgh awards
- Newton Abbot Community Trust: for a tactile map & audio equipment
- Wirral Community Narrowboat Trust: for boat trips
- Childhood Eye Cancer Trust: to help children with eye cancer
- Alstrom Syndrome UK: for children’s medical handbook & information pack
- VISOR: for drop-in centre refurbishment
- Sight Support Derbyshire: computer equipment
- Royal National College for the Blind: equipment for independent Living Skills training
