Useful Links for children and adults with a visual impairment
Useful links for children
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is the UK's leading charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million people with sight loss.
The National Blind Children's Society is a charity providing information, advice, support and services to blind and visually impaired children: The National Blind Children's Society provide a 'CustomEyes Book Service' producing custom-made large print books in the font size and format to suit the individual child's eye condition.
Look Sussex is a charity created by parents of children with a visual impairment, offering support and advice to families.
The Blatchington Court Trust supports young people with a visual impairment
Useful links for adults
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is the UK's leading charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million people with sight loss.
The Royal Mail Articles for the Blind scheme is a free, first class or Airmail service for people sending items specifically designed for blind and visually impaired people. This enables them to send certain items within the UK and overseas free of charge.
The East Sussex Association of Blind and Partially Sighted People (ESAB) is a User Led Organisation supporting people who are blind or partially sighted and living in East Sussex.
City Synergy provide social activities for people with sight loss in the Brighton and Hove area.
Brighton and Hove Group - Support for those with central vision loss -meets at the Cornerstone Community Centre Church Road. Please contact 01273 476206 for further information.
The objective of the Blatchington Court Trust is to promote the education (including social and physical training) and employment of visually impaired young people under the age of 30, mainly but not exclusively from Sussex.
A free library of tactile books with audio description, bringing the visual world to life for blind and partially sighted people. They make special tactile versions of pictures that come to life when fingers feel them. Audio descriptions tell the pictures’ stories while directing the fingertips across the tactile image, describing what is being touched, felt and ‘seen’. The tactile story books they have for children also include clear braille sheets between each page of text so they can read the text of the story themselves.
Football Club for Visually Impaired Players. Brighton & Hove Albion A.I.T.C Withdean Stadium Tongdean Lane, Brighton, BN41 1SJ
07919 051 848
Offers a free postal library service of unabridged books on memory sticks, MP3 CDs and cassettes for anyone with sight problems or physical disabilities which prevent them from reading print.
Find more useful information on Sight Impairment on the Brighton & Hove City Council website.
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