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We currently have 2 lovely flats to rent within our residential care home. They are both £202.65 per week- this price is inclusive of rent, lighting, heating, council tax, water and cleaning and maintenance of communal areas. Within this weekly cost you also be provided your lunch and dinner and even milk for drinks! Our [...]
If you’re a regular visitor to the flagship Tesco store at Clifton Retail Park, Blackpool, you’ll be familiar with the blue tokens issued with your shopping (sometimes you have to ask for them) to help you support a charity. The great news is we’ve got some help to come – you could say it’s in [...]
Wendy Glasper – the multi award winning champion of VI tennis – is back in Blackpool on Saturday (Jan 12) with more coaching sessions with Pete Hamadi, resident coach of South Shore Lawn Tennis Club. Several N-Vision service users mustered the nerve to try VI tennis last summer and thoroughly enjoyed it – and were [...]
Some of the very latest high-tech aids for local people who are blind or visually impaired are available to try at N-Vision, the Blackpool Fylde and Wyre Society for the Blind, on Friday (Jan 11) between 10am and 2pm in our main hall, Sharples Hall, at the centre at Bosworth Place, Squires Gate. The Assistive [...]
Just a reminder that our social media accounts are a great way of keeping in touch with what’s happening at the charity for those of you who are active online – or have resolved to be for 2019! In the run up to the new year we featured the great festive get together of all [...]
N-Vision was shortlisted in two categories of MP Gordon Marsden’s Community Heroes awards – and walked away with a very special certificate in tribute to, and memory of, a very special man, the late Keith Gledhill MBE, a leading light of The Blackpool Fylde and Wyre Society for the Blind for many years. Team members [...]
No, you’re not seeing things at N-Vision’s Christmas Fair - with the greatest respect to our own alter ego The Blackpool Fylde and Wyre Society for the Blind. The Dark Knight wowed children and grown-ups alike when he dropped in to join his friend Santa Claus for a super heroic fundraising festive fair which featured [...]
From pop to poppies - plastic bottles were recycled into hundreds of poppies in one of several very special acts of remembrance at the Princess Alexandra Home for the Blind at Squires Gate. The project, which has spanned weeks, also marked new life, the birth of a great-granddaughter for one of the residents taking part [...]
In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have implemented this Privacy Notice to inform you, our Service Users, of the types of data we process about you. We also include within this notice the reasons for processing your data, the lawful basis that permits us to process it, how long we keep [...]
We are holding a Low Vision Clinic in Garstang Medical Practice on Wednesday 5th December. Stephanie Beasley, Brian Casey and Nick Hamlett from Associated Optical will be conducting low vision assessments and providing general low vision advice/support. Nick is also bringing a sample of the electronic aids which Associated Optical sell. This is the first [...]
