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.
- 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: we completed this five-year project in our last financial year
- 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
- BPUS, based in Bangladesh: Self Reliance Project for Visually Impaired People
- 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
- Braille Chess Association: for their Gazette
- 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
