Thursday, May 20, 2021, marks the tenth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities. What is Digital Accessibility? Every user deserves a…
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Mental Health Awareness Week
Research shows that older people with sight loss are three times more likely to experience depression than people with good vision. The COVID -19 pandemic has increased the emotional impact on people with sight loss, so in November 2020 Devon…
JO PARSONS – COOKING WITH CONFIDENCE WORKSHOP
We would like to express our sincere thanks to Jo Parsons for joining us as our speaker for this week’s Devon in Sight Telephone Speaker Event. Jo shared with us her experience of sight loss from an early age and…
Paula Martin – Wellbeing Coach
We would very much like to thank Paula Martin for sharing her time and knowledge as our speaker at this week’s Devon in Sight Telephone Speaker Event. Paula is the Community Wellbeing Coach working as part of the Social Prescribing Team…
Free Audio Books Service from Calibre
We would very much like to thank Natalie Moore from Calibre Audio for sharing her time and knowledge as our speaker at this week’s Devon in Sight Telephone Speaker Event. Natalie gave us an oversite of how and why Calibre…
Judy Pride presents at our Sight Loss Speaker Event
We would very much like to thank Judy Pride from the Macular Society for joining us as speaker for our weekly Devon in Sight Telephone Speaker Event. Judy was able to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about…
‘Ask the Expert’ with Grahame Flynn Devon in Sight’s CEO
Sight Loss Equipment Manufacturer Optelec’s Chief Executive Office Mark Statham hosted an ‘Ask the Expert’ online interview with Devon in Sight’s Chief Exeutive Grahame Flynn on Thursday the 4th of March. Grahame was thrilled to be invited to share with…
National Lottery Community Fund ‘Awards for All’
We are truly grateful to the ‘Awards for All’ grant from the The National Lottery Community Fund. This grant has enabled us to set up the new ‘Feeling Well, Keeping Well’ service with funding for our Emotional Wellbeing Co-ordinator and…
Jason Sculthorpe – Sight Loss Speaker Event
We would like to thank Jason Sculthorpe from RNID for joining us our latest speaker at our Devon in Sight Telephone Speaker Event. Jason gave a really informative talk about the services provided by RNID, including the impact of hearing…
The UK is marking one year since the first coronavirus lockdown was announced
On 23 March 2020 Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19. Since then, the UK’s official death toll has risen from 364 to 126,172. With the lockdown have come tough restrictions on socialising, closures of schools, pubs…