Visual impairment

Beacon Centre

The Beacon Centre provides a range of services for people with a visual impairment, including social groups in Sandwell.

Beacon Centre for the Blind
Wolverhampton Road East
WV4 6AZ
Tel: 01902 880 111
Fax: 01902 886 795
Web: http://www.beacon4blind.co.uk/

Sandwell Active Independent Blind Association (SAIBA)

SAIBA help you to enjoy an active social life. They arrange trips and holidays to enable people to do things that they might not otherwise have the confidence to do. For example, theatre visits, weekend breaks, meals out at country pubs and an annual Christmas party.

Visit SAIBA's website. Follow the link to SAIBA's Facebook page, as they now use this to keep you up to date with their activities.

Sandwell Visually Impaired (SVI)

SVI provides information and advice about services and organisations that can help you. Members are visually impaired themselves, or are the carers of people with a visual impairment. SVI gives you a chance to have your say about services for people with a visual impairment.

SVI produces a quarterly newsletter to keep you up to date with the issues that affect people with sight problems in Sandwell.

Find out more on the Sandwell Visually impaired website.

The website includes an extensive list of links to other sources of information and organisations that can help.

Sandwell Talking Newspaper

Sandwell Talking Newspaper is produced every week and distributed to people who have subscribed to it. It is also available online on Sandwell Visually Impaired's website. It is uploaded to the site every week, usually by lunchtime on a Saturday. Listen to Sandwell Talking Newspaper here.