Charity

The latest news from charities within the optical sector

Orbisipad

Heidelberg Engineering teams up with Orbis to provide education to practitioners globally

Heidelberg will sponsor three education sessions hosted live on Cybersight throughout the year

A young child in a blue jumper is fitted with lime green glasses by a SeeAbility staff member

SeeAbility Special Schools Eye Care team shortlisted for RNIB award

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Callum Lancashire has red hair and a beard and is smiling at the camera against a turquoise background. He is wearing a navy blue jumper

Establishing Sight Loss Councils in Scotland

9 min read

Three colleagues wear bright yellow protective clothing and kneel down inside the Sightsavers exhibition stand

“Smaller organisations don’t realise the impact they can have”

OT spoke to Morna Lane, head of trusts and corporate partnerships at Sightsavers, at 100% Optical to discuss the charity’s new eye health partnership programme for small businesses

A microphone is displayed in a dimly lit professional recording studio

BBC In Touch to be cut to 15 minutes from April

Eye care practitioner analysing exam results in a monitor

Glaucoma UK opens applications for Health and Social Care Professionals Research Award 2024

A scrabble board with bumps to show the letters for visually impaired players spells out the words ‘vision rehab’

Thousands denied support after sight loss diagnosis

8 min read

Book and glasses

RNIB launches new “ground-breaking” low vision framework

A close-up image of a women’s eye. The iris is bright and a blue-green.

Save the date: NEHW 2024

A healthcare professional is talking to an older woman

IAPB launches Young Systems Leader Awards

Long reads

Establishing Sight Loss Councils in Scotland
9 min read
Thousands denied support after sight loss diagnosis
8 min read
“It is our job to represent the interests of the millions of people whose sight is potentially at risk”
10 min read

A sight saving operation is being performed by a clinician in blue scrubs. The eye that is being operated on can be seen from above

Project to restore sight in Zimbabwe marks halfway point

Mid adult man visually impaired man wearing a blue shirt and waiting for the lift

Quarter of employers unwilling to make workplace adaptations for blind or partially sighted staff

The Crisis Opticians and Eyecare 2023 Bermondsey Clinic Team

20 years for Crisis at Christmas Opticians and Eyecare Service partnership

A child wearing a blue cochlear implant is photographed from the side, leaning over a desk and drawing in a school exercise book

Deafblind UK and Anglia Ruskin University researching impact of deafblindness on young people

A woman, Cathy Yelf, has short brown hair, is wearing a fuchsia coat and a blue scarf, and is standing on a bridge outside in winter. The background focus on the image is blurred

Macular Society chief executive to retire

Cathy Yelf is to step down both from the Macular Society and her role with The Eyes Have It partnership

A group of nine people are smiling at the camera inside a room, with cream curtains behind them. Two of the group are holding bright yellow signs that include the words “I’m backing a national eye care plan for England”

“It is our job to represent the interests of the millions of people whose sight is potentially at risk”

10 min read

Teenage boy is leaning against a white metal bar. He is wearing a bright blue t-shirt and is smiling looking at the camera.

Orbis receives AWS Imagine grant

Colin Daniels, working age and young people’s service manager, sits at a desk. On the wall behind are the yellow posters of The Macular Society

The Macular Society to highlight financial support in new podcast series

braille

RNIB celebrates World Braille Day on social media

David Hogg, one of the participants in RNIB’s sound branding, recording his voice in a studio

RNIB goes sonic with new audio logo

The interior of a train, with the legs of a person wearing jeans, a white stick, and a guide dog visible

Sight loss charities express ‘grave concern’ over downgrading of disabilities minister position

Thomson Software Solutions expresses continued support for VCHP