These are just some of the ways that your donation could help blind and partially sighted people:
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£10 could help a mum continue to cook for her children with our range of giant print cookery books.
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£15 could help provide board games for blind and partially sighted children, so they can play with their friends and family.
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£30 could help train parents to teach braille, so that blind children can grow up to achieve the same as their peers in education and employment.
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£50 could pay for a Birthday Book, so we can send every child their favourite book in the format they want on their birthday.
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£80 could help give someone Talking Books for a whole year, offering comfort and companionship to someone who may feel isolated from the world.
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£100 could pay for a full day recording of Talking Newspapers so we can help people with sight loss to stay connected to the world around them through audio versions of the daily papers they've read all their lives.
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£125 could pay for letters, music, novels and much more to be turned into spoken word and braille, so that blind and partially sighted people can read their own mail, sing in the choir or simply curl up with a good book.
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£250 could mean that people can participate in RNIB's Telephone Book Clubs from the comfort of their own home and provides a forum in which sight loss becomes irrelevant.
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£500 could help us to create a children's book in braille or giant print, so that a parent with sight loss can still read a bedtime story to their children.
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£1,000 could help us to provide a Talking Book to keep our library up to date with the latest titles.
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£20,000 could allow us to upgrade 80 Talking Book players, helping us to give an even better service and providing a variety of media options that will allow us to develop the service in the future.
Running our Talking Book service
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It costs £520,700 to produce all the Talking Book players that blind and partially sighted people need each year. These portable players enable people to read their Talking Books wherever they choose and the unique technology enables people to navigate the Talking Books like real books; page by page, paragraph by paragraph, with a bookmark if you need it.
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It costs RNIB £834,000 a year to run the Talking Book Studios where specialist narrators bring books to life.
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It costs £4 million a year to run RNIB's Talking Book Service - we send out up to 10,000 books a day. 39,000 people rely on this service which not only provides a great comfort, but also acts as a social currency, granting access to information and knowledge throughout their lives both at work and at home