Action for Blind People

Enabling blind and partially sighted people to transform their lives through work, housing, leisure and support.

www.afbp.org

 

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

www.charityjob.co.uk

 

Cornwall County Council
Go to the A – Z section and select Visual Impairment for information about services for people with Sight and Hearing loss

www.cornwall.gov.uk

 

Cornwall Strategic Partnership

New site being set up to help people with disabilities- active November 2005 and onwards

www.cornwallstrategicpartnership.co.uk

 

Deafblind UK

National Charity for  those with dual sensory impairment

www.deafblind.org.uk

 

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.

www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk

 

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.

www.guidedogs.org.uk

 

 National Bureau for Students with Disabilities

Promotes opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education and employment

www.skill.org.uk

 

NLB

National Library for the Blind

www.nib-online.org.uk

 

RNIB

There are around two million people in the UK with sight problems and RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind ) is the leading charity offering  practical support and information to anyone with a sight problem

www.rnib.org.uk

 

Sense

Charity assisting deafblind people

www.sense.org.uk

 

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.

www.torchtrust.org

 

 

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