Jim 81 from Lytham is one of our long-standing clients and a valued member of our community. He has set himself the challenge of ‘Walking’ the 70 mile boundary of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre which includes the 3 areas N-Vision serves. Jim is well known to the charity and likes to get involved in more [...]
When you’re 110 years old you’ve earned the right to stay out late – have a proper grown up party. And who needs a telegram from the Queen when you’ve just had the Countess of Wessex round reading a special message? (Sorry, Ma’am.) That’s why Lancashire sight loss support charity N-Vision which covers Blackpool Fylde [...]
Coffee and cake? You had us at cake, N-Vision! Our sight loss support charity’s Low Vision Centre/Community Services team members have brewed up another successful venture – the toast is our brand new café club at Garstang’s Booths Café. Links to latest online Entirely coverage here: Entirely Charity North West: https://www.entirelycharity.com/news/northwest/lancashire/wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee-blackpool-based-n-vision-already-has4964 And Entirely North West [...]
We went radio ga ga when 96.5 Radio Wave broadcast Live from OUR Drive for five EPIC hours from 2pm to 7pm – through rain, hail and high winds… and that was between storms. Ian ‘Shep’ Shepherd, an inspirational VI model in his own right, introduced the resort’s favourite radio roadshow from the conservatory of [...]
There couldn’t be a better year to resolve to ‘see’ what local sight loss support charity N-Vision has to offer - the clue’s in the name, Twenty Twenty! While some of us enjoy 20-20 vision many simply need prescription glasses or contact lenses to correct short or long sightedness or other issues. We can get [...]
N-Vision was the first to sign up for Wyre Council’s new community lottery – along with 1st Carleton Scout Group – at the official launch attended by more than 80 representatives from community groups and good causes in the borough. Good causes across Wyre are urged to join us – with 60p from every £1 [...]
Severely sight impaired June McLaughlin has finally achieved her ambition to walk into Poulton town centre alone and unaided, by anything other than her long cane, from her bungalow near the River Wyre Hotel. Going it alone - spot the June! In the midst of busy traffic our volunteer braves busy June, 68, says she [...]
On Friday, January 31, from 10am to 2pm, at Sharples Hall, here at our HQ at Bosworth Place, Squires Gate, we host our very first exhibition of 2020 – a year of real significance to the VI community and to the charity’s fight back against avoidable sight loss for others. We have a much larger [...]
We not only talk the talk but walk the walk with tech at N-Vision – because it’s important to keep clients clued up on the latest low vision technology, aids or appliances, which can enhance independence and boost quality of life. We’ve got Optelec setting up its Low Vision Solutions camp at our monthly café [...]
If you missed Michael Mosley's presentation of Trust Me, I'm a Doctor BBC 2 (Wed Jan 15 and repeated Sat Jan 18 5.30pm) you can catch up here https://bbc.co.uk/…/m000dbdm/trust-me-im-a-doctor-series-9-… from about 12 minutes into the programme. Why are we so interested? It features a procedure, still under a trial, which has the potential to revolutionise the treatment of [...]
