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 [...]
“There’s nothing to be done other than carry on until I can’t. Meantime, it’s all about living with the positives, not the negatives.” Keith Dobson – who has terminal cancer. Keith and Carol Dobson with their Complete Catering clan on site at N-Vision – from left to right (back) fellow director Shane O’Loan, Nathan Taylor and [...]
Our Christmas Fair was a huge hit – raising just shy of £3280 for the charity, inclusive of Christmas and other raffle ticket takings. Sadly, our showcase dolls house, donated by a local lady, failed to reach its £100 reserve and we’re sure you’ll agree it really shouldn’t have been sold for less. It’s to [...]
Introducing our new chair of trustees Joseph Bannister - pictured with our CEO Ruth Lambert at our AGM. He claimed to be nervous but had a very warm welcome from fellow trustees, members, staff, volunteers and others who have the interests of the charity to heart and, far more importantly, those the charity serves, within [...]
We were never going to match the magnificence of the Tower Ballroom or Matcham's finest theatrical creation, the Grand, for the media, Strictly speaking, writes Jacqui Morley, N-Vision press officer. Even the local council's Latest News update omitted N-Vision from the running order for a Royal visit to the resort (Blackpool - if the Tower wasn't a [...]
With half of all sight loss across the UK and Lancashire avoidable, controllable or preventable, N-Vision has gone all out for National Eye Health Week (Sept 23-29) to highlight the need for regular eye tests, a healthier diet and far greater awareness of risks of smoking and other factors. Head of ophthalmology Mr Ahmad Khalil [...]
Our Three Piers sponsored run/walk defied the gloomy weather forecast for up to six miles of sunny smiles for those who went as far as North Pier and back to our base at Squires Gate – for a welcome bacon or egg (or both!) butty and medals agogo, presented by event organiser Abby Newby. Great [...]
The writing on the wall said it all at N-Vision’s celebratory afternoon tea attended by 100 volunteers at the charity’s Squires Gate base at Bosworth Place. “We couldn’t do it without you.” N-Vision, the Blackpool Fylde and Wyre Blind Society, currently has 249 registered volunteers working across all elements of the operation, from Talking News [...]
