Action for Blind People
Enabling blind and partially sighted people to transform their lives
through work, housing, leisure and support.
Ability Net
For advice on
adapting your computer, sources of funding
and assessments for clients with
multiple disabilities
www.abilitynet.org.uk
Charity Jobs
A website which individuals can look for
jobs within the charity sector and where employers can advertise jobs in their
charity
Go to the A – Z section and select Visual Impairment for information
about services for people with Sight and Hearing loss
New site being set up to help people with
disabilities- active November 2005 and onwards
www.cornwallstrategicpartnership.co.uk
Deafblind
National Charity for those with dual sensory impairment
Employment Service
Follow the link
to Customers then Help for Disabled People to find out about Government schemes
to assist with staying in or getting work.
Guide Dogs
Guide Dogs wants a world in which blind and partially sighted people
have the same rights, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else.
Guide Dogs provides mobility and freedom to blind and
partially sighted people.
National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
Promotes opportunities
for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education
and employment
NLB
National
Library for the Blind
RNIB
There are
around two million people in the
Sense
Charity
assisting deafblind people
Social Services Sensory Loss Team
Services for people with a sight or hearing loss.
www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=8661
Torch Trust for the Blind
Non-denominational Christian organisation providing literature (magazines,
books, Bibles, hymnbooks, lending libraries), fellowship and
personal support for blind and partially sighted people; six local Fellowship
Groups in Cornwall meeting monthly at Hayle, Scorrier,
Falmouth, St Austell, Liskeard and Launceston.