Vision Impaired Youngster Designs Best-Selling Charity Christmas Card
A Christmas card designed by a seven year-old vision impaired Norfolk girl is proving to be a huge hit with the public, with hundreds of copies already sold. Rhiannon Kay, from Alpington, designed the card as part of a competition run by the county’s sight loss charity Vision Norfolk, and her colourful picture of a […]
2024 Christmas Art Competition
We will be accepting entries for the 2024 Christmas Art Competition from 1st December 2023 until 29th February 2024 for the possibility of featuring your artwork on our charity Christmas cards!
New Monthly Technology Club Launched At Norwich Hub
Vision impaired people in Norwich are being offered free one-to-one technology training sessions to help them make the most of technology to help them live independently – and a new monthly discussion group to help those living with sight loss use technology has also been launched. Norfolk sight loss charity Vision Norfolk has teamed up […]
Free One-To-One Technology Training Sessions On Offer For People Living With Sight Loss In King’s Lynn
Vision impaired people in west Norfolk are being offered free one-to-one technology training sessions to help them make the most of technology to help them live independently. Norfolk sight loss charity Vision Norfolk has teamed up with the Royal National Institute of Blind People to offer the sessions, on Wednesday 15th November and Thursday 7th […]
New Volunteers And Activities Co-Ordinator Appointed At Sight Loss Charity’s King’s Lynn Hub
A new member of staff at the King’s Lynn hub of Norfolk’s sight loss charity has been appointed with the aim of expanding the organisation’s band of volunteers, and co-ordinating a wide-ranging and varied activities programme taking place in and around the town. Abbi Waters has joined Vision Norfolk as volunteers and activities co-ordinator based […]
Vision Impaired People Gather In Norwich Cathedral To Honour Sight Loss Charity’s Founder
Blind and vision impaired people from all over Norfolk gathered in Norwich Cathedral for a brief service to honour the founder of the county’s sight loss charity, on the 218th anniversary of its founding. Trustees, staff and supporters of Vision Norfolk gathered around the memorial plaque to Thomas Tawell in the Cathedral’s nave, to commemorate […]
Great Yarmouth hub group visit Time and Tide Museum
A group from the Great Yarmouth hub had a special visit to the town’s Time and Tide Museum. The museum, which tells the story of Great Yarmouth from sandbank to thriving port and seaside resort, occupies the premises of the Tower Fish Curing Works, orginally built in 1850, and which closed in 1988. The £4.7 […]
Royal Society Of St George Chooses Norfolk Sight Loss Charity As Good Cause To Support For The Next Three Years
Children and young people in Norfolk living with sight loss have received a boost following a year of fundraising by the Lowestoft branch of the Royal Society of St George, who have chosen to support the work which Vision Norfolk does to support vision impaired young people and their families for three years. Branch secretary […]
Guide Dog Takes To The Catwalk As Charity Fashion Show Raises £1,500 For Sight Loss Charity
A sell-out charity fashion show held at a top Norfolk vineyard has raised over £1,500 for the county’s sight loss charity – having featured a blind model on the catwalk, complete with her guide dog. Chet Valley Vineyard in Bergh Apton hosted over 50 fashion-lovers at their winery for the event, which showcased clothes from […]
Vision Impaired Bird Lovers Get Wise To Owls In Head-Turning Visit
A group of vision impaired people from Great Yarmouth took part in a head-turning experience when they got up close and personal with three owls during a specially arranged visit to the Fritton Owl Sanctuary. Fifteen blind and vision impaired visitors and volunteers were able to hold and stroke a barn owl, a tawny owl […]
