Local Businesses Come Forward To Help Sight Loss Charity Open New King’s Lynn Hub
Norfolk’s sight loss charity has a new home in the historic centre of King’s Lynn – which has been completely refurbished with the help of two big-hearted local businesses. Vision Norfolk has moved its west Norfolk hub from a building on a business park to the north of the town into Thoresby College on Queen […]
People Living With Sight Loss In Great Yarmouth Invited To Find Out What Support Is Available Over A Cup Of Tea
Great Yarmouth’s St George’s Theatre Café has got together with sight loss charity Vision Norfolk to hold a special drop-in afternoon to enable people living with sight loss to find out what help and support is available to them. Staff from the charity’s hub in the town will be on hand at the café on […]
New Classes Aim To Help Vision Impaired People Use Technology To Lead Independent Lives
Vision impaired laptop users are being offered the chance to learn how to make their technology work for them, with the launch of a new series of Digital Accessibility Classes in Norwich. Run by a partnership between sight loss charity Vision Norfolk, Norfolk Adult Education and computing firm IT Norwich, the classes are kicking off […]
Intrepid Quintet – Including Blind Climber – Raise Thousands For Norfolk’s Sight Loss Charity
Five members of staff at Norfolk’s sight loss charity – including one who has been blind since birth – have raised nearly £5,000 to boost the charity’s support for people living with sight loss, after they tackled the UK’s third highest mountain. The five tackled a six hour trek to climb the 3,500ft Mount Snowdon […]
Vision Impaired Yarmouth People Get Crafty At New Monthly Rug-Making Workshops
Crafty vision impaired people in Great Yarmouth have been discovering the joys of rug-making, thanks to a new joint initiative between Norfolk’s sight loss charity and a new Norfolk family business set up by two sisters who were inspired by how their mother dealt with losing her sight in the years before she died. Ruskin’s […]
Workshop Plants The Seed Of Gardening Enthusiasm For People Living With Sight Loss
A dozen vision impaired people from the Norwich area have been introduced to the joys of gardening thanks to the enthusiasm and generosity of a city garden centre owner. Tim Gee, who owns Mousehold Garden Centre, visited Vision Norfolk to lead a bulb-planting workshop designed to provide those living with sight loss with an insight […]
Intrepid Quintet To Tackle Britain’s Third Highest Mountain To Support Norfolk’s Sight Loss Charity
Five members of staff at Norfolk’s sight loss charity – including one who has been blind since birth – are set to tackle the UK’s third highest mountain in a bid to raise money to boost the charity’s support for people living with sight loss. The five, all of whom work for Vision Norfolk, will […]
Vision Impaired Group Get Aboard Steam Train And Paddle Steamer For Sensory Travel Day
A group of vision impaired people enjoyed a special sensory travel day, travelling on the Bure Valley Railway and the Southern Comfort paddle steamer on the river Bure from Horning. The excursion, organised by sight loss charity Vision Norfolk’s Great Yarmouth hub, saw the group enjoy the atmosphere of the train as they travelled along […]
Blind Novice Baker Carries Off Bake Off Prize
A Norwich woman who has been blind since the age of six has carried off the inaugural ‘Norfolk Vision Impaired Bake Off’ prize just six months after she first picked up a spatula. Paige Simonds won the prize for a ‘stunning’ Bakewell Tart in the competition, which was the culmination of a cooking course designed […]
Eye Clinic Staff Make Another Four Figure Donation To Norfolk’s Sight Loss Charity
People living with sight loss in Norfolk will continue to receive support to live independent lives thanks to the latest £1000 donation from the Norwich Newmedica Eye Clinic. The team at the Broadland Business Park-based clinic, along with some of their patients, have taken part in a number of fundraising activities including an Easter egg […]
