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We have been very busy at Southampton Sight this week delivering meals, chocolates, make your own easter egg kits and daffodils to our lovely members. Lovely to hear back from some of our members Happy Easter to you all! I wish to thank you very, very much for the...

We have been notified of a job opportunity for a Personal Assistant to support an 11-year-old young person with sight loss.  You would provide one-to-one support to enable them to go out once a week for 2-3 hours in the evening to a club or similar and for a full day...

As we cannot meet up with our children and young people, we thought that we would send them make your own pizza kits to bake at home instead.  Last Friday they received a special delivery from Peter in the Pan.  Each kit contained enough ingredients to make two...

Valentine's Day is still on the calendar even though we can’t get together with our Children’s Group.  So instead we sent out Valentine's craft packs with lots of tactile activities for the children to try out.  Today we were delighted to receive a beautiful card from...

Our centre is currently closed however we are still available on the telephone or email Please contact us if you need help with shopping, prescription collection, sight loss equipment or if you would just like a chat.  We would love to hear from you. Telephone: 023...

The Staff and Trustees at Southampton Sight would like to wish all our Members, Supporters and Volunteers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.  The office is now closed and will reopen on Monday 4th January.

Congratulations to the winners of our Christmas raffle:   1st Prize £250 Ticket Number 3089 Brian Johnston   2nd Prize £100 Ticket Number 423 Kenneth Colborn   3rd Prize £50 Ticket Number 5192 Sharon Williams...

Southampton Sight was formed in 1899 to serve people living with sight loss and we are so proud to still be ‘relevant’ for our members 121 years later so getting this Christmas card from one of our members this morning was the icing on the cake. ‘Christmas Greetings...

We know it is going to be a quiet Christmas this year but we had a surprise for our members.  Recently we asked our children’s groups to design a Christmas card that we could send out to our membership.  The winning design was drawn by Mylie Dudley-Ward (aged 10...

We love to eat at Southampton Sight – I don’t know if anyone has noticed so we challenged our children and young people to decorate some cupcakes in Saints colours and we have a winner ….. Well done Josie and thanks to everyone who took part. Photos below of decorated...

We are closing our centre on Thursday 5th November and will reopen on Monday 7th December But we are still available on the telephone or email Telephone: 023 8076 9882 Email: support@southamptonsight.org.uk Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm

It may be Halloween and few things are more satisfying than chocolate BUT chocolate isn’t the best we can do at Southampton Sight!  No, members of Southampton Sight deserve something more this Halloween so we delivered MUD PIES and Roasted Vegetable and Feta Cheese...

There’s hardly a more British custom than a nice cup of tea and at Southampton Sight we think twinned with a scone, cream and jam we are onto a winner.  We are hoping that this magical elixir will help our members get through the day and make their problems disappear...

Halloween is still on the calendar even though we can’t get together with our children’s group we decided to have a ‘boo-it-yourself’ celebration this year and we sent out craft packs.  Here is Eleanor looking chuffed to bits.

I still remember that day, the day everything changed exponentially, the day everybody realised the worst was happening, the day the world, and life as we knew it, was hidden under a cloud of fear, frustration, and depression, to name a few. At the time I was in...

Here's a blog from one of our volunteers - Kris Gibson: When contemplating the unending quest for good mental health, particularly in these strangest of times, the brooding figure of Thomas Cromwell does not readily spring to mind. And yet the ruthlessly loyal...

We were delighted that our application to the Coronavirus Community Support Fund had been successful, and we’ve been awarded a grant to help fund the ongoing delivery of our meals service for the next 6 months. Remaining socially connected whilst being physical...

For some months now Southampton Sight’s visually impaired peer support group has been regularly catching up by using the conference line the society uses now for our virtual groups but yesterday was different. Kate who has been supporting the members asked how the...

The winners of the Southampton Sight Summer Raffle are:   First Prize £250.00 Ticket Number 7469 Marjorie Mainstone   Second Prize £100.00 Ticket Number 7136 Michael King   Third Prize £50.00 Ticket Number 2445 Violet...

Southampton Sight volunteer Simon Lashbrooke-Small who delivers our Sight Awareness Workshop Sessions for Primary School pupils has been busy writing a book to support children talking about their Coronavirus experiences.  His story, The Day the Virus Came, is a short...

Please contact us on 023 8076 9882 to book an appointment if you would like to use our resource centre. Unfortunately our social activities won't be starting just yet but as always, we’ll be working extremely hard over the coming weeks and months to reset and rebuild...

Simon is one of three finalists for The BBC Radio Solent Community Heroes Awards 2020 Inclusion Awards which aim to recognise unsung heroes across Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight – they will be announcing the winner on Friday 31 July BBC Radio Solent –...

Keeping socially connected whilst physically distanced is always a challenge SO we ordered cookies, chocolate cookies from Message Muffins.  They make you feel good and that’s just what we wanted our children and families to feel in these difficult times.  We think it...

Wonderful to celebrate Joan’s 100th birthday this week.  We couldn’t have a party at the centre so we took the party to Joan – keeping socially distance whilst physically distancing is a challenge but at Southampton Sight we are so proud at how we have coped through...

As lockdown rumbles on I realise just how much I miss our members, in particular the young people I have met at Southampton Sight.  They are such a wonderful group with the whole world ahead of them and despite their sight loss they are ambitious, resilient and fun to...

Find out how we are working in new ways with Southampton's Cultural Services during lockdown https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKSOUTHAMPTON/bulletins/2935e52#.Xv7ur0n6xYI.twitter via @Granicus

Southampton Sight’s Kate Healey talks about her passion for being on the water to Radio Solent’s Neil Sackley. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08j4mvj

We received the following letter today from one of our members ... Dear Mandy I would like to say to you and the volunteers a big thank you for what you have done for us during the lockdown. Thank you also for organizing the group phone calls which I enjoy once I have...

Aware that our face to face social groups are likely to be on hold for considerable time to come, we have arranged with the Macular Society to borrow one of their befriending phone lines.  This has allowed us to continue to run a variety of social groups every week,...