Family Fund
Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity providing grants for families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people. We have been supporting families for over 40 years, and provide grants for a wide range of items, such as washing machines, sensory toys, family breaks, bedding, tablets, furniture, outdoor play equipment, clothing and computers.
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, The
Guide Dogs exists to provide life-changing services to the 360,000 people who are registered blind or partially sighted. Our ambition is a future where every person with sight loss has the confidence and support to live their lives to the full. Since 1931 we’ve created thousands of partnerships; making a lifetime promise to provide every one of our guide dog owners with a dog for as long as they need one.
Listening Books
Listening Books is a UK charity providing nearly 8,000 fantastic audiobooks on three easily accessible formats: downloads, internet streaming and MP3 CDs. 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.
BlindAid
BlindAid has over 180 years’ experience of supporting Londoners with sight loss. Please help people struggling to cope with sight loss and the isolation it can bring by remembering BlindAid in your will.
Blindcare
Blindcare is an equal partnership of nine large and small charities, most covering the whole of the United Kingdom and all working for people who are blind or visually impaired. Through the work of our partner charities we are able to provide education and training for visually impaired adults and children to help them make their way in the world to provide mobility support to help blind people lead full, active lives and to conduct international research into the prevention of blindness and other eye diseases.
British Council for the Prevention of Blindness, The
‘Knowledge is power' is a well-known adage. It sums up the work of our charity, for the knowledge we help to acquire through research, and spread through teaching and publications, is a powerful way of preventing blindness. Scientific research has led to many breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of the conditions that cause blindness, but there is still a great deal we do not understand.
CBM - the overseas disability charity (previously known as Christian Blind Mission)
Up to 75% of the world’s blindness is avoidable - be part of the solution. CBM is an international Christian charity with over 100 years of experience working with people with blindness as well as preventing or treating diseases that lead to disability. There are more than 90% of the world’s visual impaired people live in developing countries. CBM reaches over 30 million people affected by blindness or disability each year in 59 of the world’s poorest countries.
Coventry Resource Centre for the Blind
Coventry Resource Centre for the Blind provides practical and social support to visually impaired people, their family members and carers in and around Coventry. Sight loss disproportionately affects older people but can happen to anyone at any age. CRCB supports over 100 regular service users a week and more than 700 people every month to adjust to sight loss and lead full, active lives.
Disability and Development Partners (DDP)
DDP supports disabled and very poor marginalised people in countries in Africa and Asia through projects implemented by our local partners in Ethiopia, India, Mozambique, Nepal and Burundi. Together we aim to achieve equality of opportunity and inclusion in education, health and livelihoods for people with disabilities and also for people whose disabilities are not immediately visible, such as mental illness and hearing disabilities; and vulnerable people, marginalised communities of former refugees, and tribal communities.
Fight for Sight
Fight for Sight is the leading UK charity dedicated to funding research to prevent sight loss and treat eye disease. We rely on donations to fund over £4m of eye research every year into conditions including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, cataract, diabetic retinopathy and a range of inherited retinal diseases.
