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Job Vacancy for Specialist Teaching Assistant – Visually Impaired
Job Vacancy at Our Lady & St Joseph Catholic Primary School in Lymington for a Specialist Teaching Assistant – Visually Impaired (VI). Full details here: VI Teaching Assistant - OLSJ
100 Club Lottery
The Southampton Sight 100 Club is a lottery that is paid annually and is drawn once a month on the first Monday afternoon. Each number costs £12 a year – that’s £1 a month. 50% of the money received is put in the prize pot and 50% of the money raised goes to...
Thank You Greggs Foundation
Thank you Greggs Foundation who awarded Southampton Sight £250 for care packages and specialist equipment for people living with sight loss. Since closing our offices on 18 March and moving to home working we have been delivering a telephone based services offering...
ClapForNHS
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We are here to help
Dear All I hope you are all managing to keep safe and well. I am taking this opportunity to update you with what is happening at Southampton Sight. In these unprecedented times there is a fine line to be drawn with maintaining as much service as we can with keeping...
Southampton Sight Awareness Challenges for Children
Please pass on this information to any children you know who are “working at home”. The school Sight Awareness Team are “twiddling their thumbs” as our school workshop sessions are on hold at the moment. However, we have come up with a few ideas of fun activities for...
Southampton Sight News Update
The coronavirus outbreak is expected to affect many more people in the coming weeks and we want to make sure that all our members, volunteers and people who use our services are protected as much as possible. We know that older people are especially vulnerable to this...
Crazy Creatures – Saturday 14th March
On Saturday 14th March our Children & Young Peoples Group will be having a visit from Crazy Creatures between 10am and 12 noon. This event is open to any child or young person living in Southampton or the surrounding area who is experiencing sight loss together...
When life gives you lemons…make lemonade…?
Dear Mr Sight Loss I’m writing to you today to update you on how I’m doing. I thought you’d like to know. I had never really thought much about sight loss or visual impairment until 4 years ago. My sight had always been ok, apart from normal stuff like glasses for...
A morning with Welsh National Opera
Friday 20th March 2020, 11am – 1pm Southampton Sight, 3 Basset Avenue, Southampton, SO16 7DP Free admission & light refreshments Southampton Sight are delighted to welcome musicians from Welsh National Opera (WNO) for an hour of music-making and storytelling...
Low Vision Equipment Day – Wednesday 19th February
On Wednesday 19th February we will be holding a Low Vision Equipment Day in association with VisionAid Technologies. Individual appointments lasting 20 minutes will be available between 10am and 1pm. Please phone Sonia or Gail on 023 8076 9882 to book your...
Sunu Success
Using radar and augmented reality, the Sunu Band enables blind and partially sighted people to travel with confidence. Advanced haptic feedback guides your way around any obstacle, and navigation sensors connect you to the world that’s around you. Here is a review...
Keeping it in the family
In April this year Richard Fielder will be running the London Marathon to raise funds for Southampton Sight. The marathon will be the finish of his pledge to run 500 miles. Richard has a long history with the Society as his grandfather was blind and chairman of the...
Charity of the Year – More Good News
Southampton Sight is delighted to announce that we have been chosen by Associated British Ports in Southampton as their Charity of the Year 2020. Paul Black, who has lived experience of sight loss through his sister, nominated us. Thank you Paul and we look forward...
Good News – Very Good News
At Southampton Sight we’ve been celebrating – we promised you good news and here it is – we have been awarded £291,900 over 5 years from the National Lottery Community Fund. The funding secured is to pay core salaries so we can move to become a sustainable...
Just a bit of Clickbait news
Sometimes in the charity world we can be all consumed with BAD news – no funding, our members are not getting the support they need from statutory services and the news in the media can make us all feel that things just aren’t going our way. Well here at Southampton...
Change of Guard
In December we said good bye to Brian Anderson, who has been the Chairman of Southampton Sight since 2015. Brian is relocating north to be nearer his family. During Brian’s tenure of Southampton Sight there has been a deliberate move by Brian to ensure that people...
100 Years Young!
Dorrie recently celebrated her 100th birthday. What a happy day and what an achievement. She has been coming to Southampton Sight for over 10 years but her history is incredible. She tells us that as a civil servant in the Second World War working as a telephonist...
Lived experience has incredible value and needs to be recognised
Sight Loss Awareness training is crucial in a society where many people still know so little about living with sight loss. At Southampton Sight we don’t just support people living with sight loss – we have made it our mission to improve awareness of sight loss in...
Anyone fancy a cuppa next Thursday?
It’s a tough gig when you lose your sight. You lose your independence, you have to make major adjustments and life changes very quickly. That coupled with the emotional and mental changes many of the people coming to Southampton Sight need a lot of help and support...
It takes a village to raise a child
At Southampton Sight we believe that it is the interests of all of us to ensure young people living with sight loss have the opportunity to engage in activities that inspire, build self-esteem and confidence. Statistics show that young people living with sight loss...
Barker-Mill Foundation donates more than £4 million to Hampshire projects
Report from the Southern Dail Echo: A SOUTHAMPTON-based charity has donated more than £4 million to projects across the county. The Barker-Mill Foundation has supported organisations and individuals with their ideas since 1995. In total, projects based in the city...
Seeing Science with Closed Eyes
Today’s blog is all about some Sight Loss Awareness that Southampton Sight have recently delivered with Winchester Science Centre (WSC). Winchester Science Centre have recently raised an incredible £1.2 million to update and improve their exhibits. Their aim is to...
Kris’s Blog – Communication Revelation
Despite the dubious suggested vocational path of politician, the one other consistent theme buried within my otherwise unremarkable school reports was the phrase ‘good communication skills.’ Diplomacy aside, born out of a passion for reading and a love of words it is...
Southampton Sight celebrates 120 years delivering support for people living with sight loss in Southampton
Southampton Sight celebrated our 120th birthday last Saturday at our Centre on Bassett Avenue with a hog roast, pimms and plenty of live music. What a stupendous day – we had fantastic weather and the aroma from the hog roast welcomed our members as they arrived. With...
Telling it how it is living as a blind man and letting children walk in his footsteps. Read Kris’s experience with Primary school children in Southampton.
The current bi-word for inclusivity and diversity, ‘difference’ can be a rollercoaster ride at times. As a member of the impairment club it can still feel as if your invitation to the empowerment parade has somehow gotten lost in the post. When confronted by the...
Eye Health Information Day – Thursday 1st August
Come and find out how small changes to your life can help you to make the most of your sight on Thursday 1st August at St Mark’s Church Centre Archers Road, Southampton, SO15 2LU 10am to 2pm Exhibitors · Action on Hearing Loss · Adjustamatic · ...
When the blind can see – do we know what we are looking at?
Did you know that 93% of people with significant visual impairments can perceive light? In other words, though I cannot see colours, shapes or people I can tell the difference between light and dark. I have light perception and feel that the older I am getting I am...
Ivy’s legacy – we must remember why we were formed, why we exist and who really matters
As a local society supporting people living with sight loss our demographic is typically made up of older people. This means that quite often we receive that dreaded phone call with the bad news that one of our members has sadly passed away. We mourn every single one...
Kris’s Blog – My trip on the Lord Nelson
Today we have a guest blogger, Kris Gibson, who is a member at Southampton Sight and is visually impaired. I‘d be the first to admit that, when offered the opportunity to join the crew of the tall ship Lord Nelson by the good folks at Southampton Sight and the Jubilee...