Links

www.uk-piano.org/index.html
31 Wyre Crescent, Lynwood, Darwen, Lancashire BB3 0JG
Tel: 0844 7361976
Fax: 01254 773158
Email: abpt@uk-piano.org

http://www.birdshot.org.uk
Contact Annie Folkard and Rea Mattocks
PO Box 64996
London SW20 2BL
Email: birdshot@uveitis.net

http://www.blindinbusiness.org.uk
4th Floor, 1 London Wall Buildings, London EC2M 5PG
Tel: 0207 588 1885
E-mail: info@blindinbusiness.org.uk

Web www.blindsailing.net
Mob 07796687914
Email blind.sailing@yahoo.co.uk

www.bsvi.org.uk
5 Victoria Park Road Bournemouth BH9 2RB
Tel: 01202 546644
Fax: 01202 519006

Pure Offices
Plato Close
Tachbrook Park
Leamington Spa
Warks
CV34 6WE
Tel 01926 424247
Email: info@britishblindsport.org.uk

There are 45 million blind people worldwide. Yet in eight out of ten cases this could be prevented. BCPB funds scientific research in both the UK and overseas into blindness prevention and sight restoration, and the training of eye care professionals from developing countries. The aim is to advance knowledge, develop new treatments and improve delivery of eye care as well as to remedy the desperate shortage of eye care professionals where they are most needed, in lesser developed countries.

http://www.bcpb.org
4 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A  2RP
Telephone:  020 7404 7114
email: info@bcpb.org

www.blind.org.uk
10 albion Place, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 5DZ
Tel: 01622 754757
Fax: 01622 751725
Email: info@blind.org.uk

www.calibre.org.uk
New Road, Weston Turville, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP22 5XQ
Tel: 01296 432339
Fax: 01296 392599

Calibre Audio Library brings the pleasure of reading to people who cannot read print books because of sight  problems, dyslexia or other disabilities through a subscription-free, nationwide postal service of recorded books.

We offer a choice of over 8,500 titles, fiction and non-fiction, recorded unabridged by professional actors and broadcasters. The Calibre website www.calibre.org.uk, provides details of all our services including on-line access to our complete catalogue of audio books.

Registered charity No 286614

http:www.cafamily.org.uk
209-211 City Road, London, EC1V 1JN
Helpline Tel: 0808 808 3555
Tel: 020 7608 8700
Fax: 020 7608 8701
Email: info@cafamily.org.uk

Contact a Family provides support, advice and information for families with disabled children, no matter what their condition or disability.

A completely free online information service that provides personally surveyed detailed access guides to over 80,000 venues across the UK and Ireland. www.disabledgo.com gives people the information they need so they can make an informed decision about whether a venue is accessible to their own specific requirements. You can also search for jobs, join our forum and read up to date disability news.

http://www.disabledgo.com/
Ardent House  Gates Way, Stevenage, SG1 3HG  Tel.  0845 270 4627  email: questions@disabledgo.com

www.disabledworkers.org.uk

The Disabled Workers Co-operative is a registered charity that helps disabled people to help themselves. Our aim is to raise the independence of disabled people by enabling them to take an active role in the economy and to raise awareness of the contribution that disabled people can make to society.

On-line database of the skills, services and products disabled entrepreneur’s have to offer. Disabled entrepreneur’s are able to promote their services FREE on the Disabled Workers Database. The Database is FREE for anyone to use.

e-Jobs Portal: Where employers who wish to go beyond having an equal opportunity policy and actively encourage more disabled applicants can promote their vacancies FREE directly to disabled jobseekers. Disabled Job Seekers are able to search for and apply for jobs on-line.

www.dogstrust.org.uk
17 Wakley Street, London EC1V 7RQ
Tel: 020 7837 0006 
Email: info@dogstrust.org.uk

www.egdms.eu

Project Manager: Jenny Crawford

Guide Dogs for the Blind, Hillfields, Burghfield Common Reading, Berkshire RG7 3YG

Tel: 0118 983 8162

Email: jenny.crawford@guidedogs.org.uk

The European Guide Dog Mobility Service (EGDMS) is a European funded project working with partner guide dog school in Europe to develop a training standard for guide dogs.

The Eyecare Trust is a registered charity that exists to raise awareness of all aspects of ocular health and the importance of regular eye care.

http://www.eyecaretrust.org.uk
PO Box 804, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP20 9DF
General Enquiries: 0845 129 5001
Fax: 0845 129 5001
Email: info@eyecaretrust.org.uk

...for children and young people born without eyes

P O Box No. 4139
Marlow
Bucks SL7 9BD
Telephone: 01903 857025

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The Eyeless Trust is a U.K. wide charity.  The Trust offers support to children and young people with anophthalmia (born without eyes), microphthalmia (small, underdeveloped eyes), coloboma (part of structure missing) and related disabilities, and their families, to enable them to maximise their full potential in all areas of their lives.  The services of The Eyeless Trust are offered through a network of appropriately qualified Family Support Workers who work with children and families to identify needs, and offer assistance, advice, advocacy and emotional support as appropriate, in consultation with the family.  To achieve this, the Family Support Workers undertake home visits as required.

www.fightforsight.org.uk

36-38 Botolph Lane
London
EC3R 8DE

Tel: 020 7929 7755
Fax: 020 7929 4341
Email: info@fightforsight.org.uk

Fight for Sight is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to funding world-class research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease.  Our current research programme is focusing on preventing and treating age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and cataract. We are also funding research into the causes of childhood blindness and a large number of rare eye diseases.

http://www.guide-information.org.uk
FREEPOST RRYY-KSGT-AGBR
Sanger House, 5220 Valiant Court,
Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth,
GLOUCESTER, GL3 4FE
Tel: 0845 658 3888
Email: enquiries@guide-information.org.uk

GUiDE, part of GUiDE & PALS, is a free and confidential health, social care and disability information service for both the public and professionals. We deal with 1,000 enquiries each month, most by telephone, but also by letter and e-mail. Our database, available on our web site, has more than 4,000 local and national support services and organisations.

www.hertsblind.com
Hertfordshire Society for the Blind (RCN 1047148)
The Woodside Centre
The Commons
Welwyn Garden City
AL7 4SE

01707 375845
Supporting and empowering people with a visual impairment in Hertfordshire

www.glaucoma-association.com
Woodcote House, 15 Highpoint Business Village, Henwood, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8DH
Sightline (helpline): 01233 648170
Administration number: 01233 648164

www.livingpaintings.org
Unit 8, Kingsclere Park, Kingsclere, Newbury, Berks. RG20 4SW
Tel: 01635 299771

www.listening-books.org.uk

12, Lant Street, London. SE1 1QH

Tel: 0207 407 9417

Reg. Charity No. 264221

Listening Books is a UK charity providing thousands of fantastic audiobooks on three easily accessible formats: downloads, internet streaming and MP3 CDs. We have

over 14,000 members and our service is available to anyone who has a disability or illness which makes it difficult to hold a book, turn its pages, or read in the usual way. The library caters for both adults and children. We provide audiobooks for leisure and we support the National Curriculum from Key Stage 2 to A-Level. All of our titles are either commercially sourced or recorded in our own digital studios.

www.moorfields.nhs.uk
Tel: 020 7253 3411

www.nbcs.org.uk
Bradbury House, Market Street, Highbridge, Somerset TA9 3BW
Tel: 01278 764 764 
Fax:0 1278 764 790 
Email: enquiries@nbcs.org.uk

Information on NHS trusts and postcode or place search to find your nearest NHS authorities and trusts
www.nhs.uk

NHS foundation trust directory
www.monitor-nhsft.gov.uk

www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
http://www.nhs.uk
Tel: 0845 4647

http://www.obac.org.uk
1st Floor, Gloucester House,
8 Camberwell New Road,
London SE5 0TA
Email: info@obac.org.uk
Telephone:020 7735 3400 
Fax: 020 7582 8334.

The guide helps relieve some of the stress and worry which is very common among disabled persons when travelling through Airports. Included in the guide is information such as Travelling with Visual Impairments, Breathing Problems, Flying with Guide Dogs, Travelling with Autism, Wheelchair access, Help at the car park and much more.

The guide: http://www.parkat.co.uk/disabled/

matthew@parkat.co.uk

Pavilion 2, Salford Innovation Forum, 51 Frederick Road, Salford, Greater Manchester, M6 6FP

Redbridge Vision
www.redbridgevision.org.uk

Based in the London Borough of Redbridge first objectives are to develop:

Social events and activities for visually impaired people

Create a local Vision Strategy to document the needs of local visually impaired people and the services and support available, to highlight the key areas which need improvement, and to develop an action plan to address them.

Royal London Society For The Blind
www.rlsb.org.uk
Wildernesse Avenue, SEAL, Nr. Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 0EB
Tel: 01732 592500
Fax: 01732 592506

RLSB Adult Support Services and RLSB Business Development Unit
Victoria Charity Centre
11 Belgrave Road,
London
SW1V 1RB
020 7808 6170

RNIB College Loughborough
www.rnibcollege.ac.uk

http:www.rnib.org.uk/scotland
12-14 Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh EH7 5EA
Tel: 0131 652 3140
Fax: 0131 652 3199
Email rnibscotland@rnib.org.uk

www.seeability.org
SeeAbility House, Hook Road, Epsom, Surrey KT19 8SQ
Tel: 01372 755000
Fax: 01372 755001

www.sense.org.uk
101 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9LG
Tel: 0845 127 0060
Fax: 0845 127 0061
Text: 0845 127 0062
Email: info@sense.org.uk

www.sightsavers.org.uk
Grosvenor Hall, Bolnore Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH16 4BX
Tel: 01444 446600
Fax: 01444 446688
Email: info@sightsavers.org

http://www.uveitis.net
Contact: Phil Hibbert
Address: South House, Vidlin, Shetland Isles ZE2 9QE
Helpline 0845 604 5660
Email info@uveitis.net

Uveitis Information Group is a patient led charity, based in the UK, run by volunteers who have uveitis. We provide clear information about uveitis and its treatment for use by patients, families, researchers, ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals. We also provide support for patients who have been diagnosed with uveitis and ophthalmologists dealing with uveitis. We are helping to improve services so that people with a potential diagnosis of uveitis avoid unnecessary loss of sight.
We are also affiliated to the Birdshot Uveitis Society which is a specialist support group set up for people with Birdshot Chorioretinopathy.

www.victa.org.uk
Victa Children
Silverstone House
46 Newport Road
Woolstone,
Milton Keynes MK15 0AA
Telephone: 01908 240831
Email: admin@victa.org.uk

Founded in 1987, VICTA was set up by parents of blind and partially sighted children who came together to create a support network for each other. Out of this simple ambition has grown a national charity that provides so much more.

Creating life opportunities for blind and partially sighted children and young people is at the heart of what we do.

Shap Road Industrial Estate, Shap Road, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 6NZ
www.vitalise.org.uk
Tel:0845 330 0149
Fax:0845 735 567

Inspirational Holidays for visually impaired people and sighted guides

http://www.ukvbuilder.co.uk/sites/westridingblindassoc/home.aspx
West Riding Blind Association, Parkside Centre, Leeds Road, Outwood, Wakefield, WF1 2PN
Tel: 01924 215555
Email: wrba@btconnect.com

www.youreyeguide.co.uk
An independent website for eye health and vision guide
Email: info@youreyeguide.co.uk