Visibly Better Living and Visibly Better Spaces Certification
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Visibly Better Living Certification
Visibly Better Living certification is designed to provide social housing providers and care home staff with the skills and knowledge to meet the individual needs of the increasing number of residents living with sight loss. Visibly Better Living also supports social housing providers to adapt existing and new supported older living buildings to create environments that are inclusive for people with sight loss.
Visibly Better Spaces Certification
Visibly Better Spaces certification is designed to provide participating organisation’s staff with the skills and knowledge to design inclusive environments for people with sight loss either through refurbishment or in a brand-new building project. These environments include non-domestic buildings such as healthcare settings, offices and other public areas.
"We were very pleased to be able to work with the RNIB to use the Visibly Better Spaces design principles for the redesign of our Radiology waiting room. We welcomed the opportunity to ensure that our design created an environment that was accessible, calming and welcoming. I am delighted with the result and happy to note that the learning from this project was rolled out into other environments within the Health Board."
Accessible Building Design
Our publication ‘Building sight’ has been updated and it includes many of the Visibly Better inclusive design principles within it. The user-friendly format makes it an excellent working document for organisations all over the UK to design and create inclusive buildings.
"We know providing accommodation especially for older residents is more than just providing someone with a place to live…it’s about meeting individual’s needs… We know that a good internal and external environment can reduce the barriers that prevent people from living independently…this is where Visibly Better Living has really helped…"
Our workshops
If you are interested in learning about creating inclusive environments for people with sight loss then please come along to one of our CPD approved workshops or sign up for our training and professional development opportunities.
Get in touch
For more information on Visibly Better Living or Visibly Better Spaces certification, accessible building design or training and workshops please email David Watkins, [email protected].
"The Visibly Better Living principles are so simple and easy to implement and doesn’t cost anything extra as part of a refurbishment project – why on earth would providers not do this…it’s the small things that matter like good lighting and contrast…"
Disclaimer
Visibly Better Living and Visibly Better Spaces is an advisory service and obtaining the Visibly Better Certification means that buildings, environments, social landlords and the individual resident building have been assessed against principles that support people with sight loss in daily living, and that its staff and organisational practices are inclusive of the needs of people with sight loss only. Our assessment is according to the Visibly Better criteria and is correct as at the date of our inspection. We cannot and do not take responsibility for the whole building use or any other aspect of residential Scheme or other Visibly Better assessed environments.