Comment: | The object of the Royal Blind Society (RBS) today - as for the last one hundred and forty years - is the relief of people who are blind or partially sighted and in charitable need. It gives cash grants to provide essential support for those on low incomes and provides a range of holidays and leisure opportunities. Each year they make grants totalling some £100,000 to blind and visually impaired people on low incomes. These are given for a wide range of purposes, bringing a dramatic change to people's lives, helping them to live with dignity, independence, and a chance of a useful life.
Grants also help younger people to have an adventure holiday at the Calvert Trust or go on a Tall Ship voyage, and a new grants programme will provide IT equipment, reading and literacy aids to young people, providing them with alternative methods of accessing text and recording work; this will transform their educational prospects.
More visually impaired people will enjoy a holiday at one of the Society's specially adapted hotels. Many of them will be coming to terms with the recent loss of sight; for others it may be their first break away from home for many years. |
