Sight Loss Support

• Vitaltech website, a guide through the world of assistive tech

• VODA North Tyneside (Voluntary Organisations Development Agency)

• Connected Voice Newcastle  

• Henshaws Knowledge village

• Eye Clinic Liaison service – RVI Newcastle

• Seeability – charity providing support for visually impaired people with a learning disability
• Sight Loss Council
• VI Sport North East

National Sight-loss Charities for information and support, some of which have local groups:

Thomas Pocklington Trust

• RNIB

• RNIB– worried about your sight during coronavirus

• Guidedogs UK

• The Macular Society

• Glaucoma UK

• Retina UK

• Blind Veterans UK

• Esme’s Umbrella

North-East Sight loss charities:

• Newcastle Vision Support
• Northumberland County Blind Association
• Vision & Hearing Loss (South Tyneside & Gateshead)
• Sunderland & County Durham Royal Society for blind  
• Hartlepool Blind Welfare Association
• Blind life Durham
• North East Sight Matters (Children, Young people and families)