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RNIB welcomes Network Rail commitment to install tactile paving at all rail stations within two years
Network Rail has pledged to install tactile paving on all rail platforms in Britain by 2025. This news follows RNIB’s #RailSafe campaign after the tragic death of Cleveland Gervais, a partially sighted man who fell from a platform without tactile paving in 2020.
RNIB revolutionise data and analytics capabilities to provide better services and support
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has partnered with leading digital transformation provider and data and AI specialist, ANS, to implement a modern data platform in Microsoft Azure. This will support RNIB in maturing their organisational data and analytics capability and, the pursuit of their vision to create a world without barriers where people with sight loss can lead full lives.
One of our volunteers explains how the cost of living crisis has hit them, share your experiences with us
“I want the UK Government to recognise the position that the rising cost of living puts me and other people with sight loss in,” urges one of RNIB’s volunteers as they tell their story below.
Campaign to Combat avoidable sight loss in Ballymena
One in five us will experience sight loss in our lifetime, but did you know that over 50 per cent of sight loss is avoidable?
Children with sight loss to enjoy new play facilities at RNIB Share Chalet
Tuesday 31 January marked the official opening of a new dedicated play and calming area at sight loss support charity RNIB’s (Royal National Institute of Blind People) accessible family chalet at Share Discovery Village, Lisnaskea.
Key insights from the 2022 annual volunteer survey
I am Hannah Baguley, the Volunteering Insight Manager at RNIB and I am responsible for all of the volunteering research that we undertake.
Huda and Alia Hathaf share their volunteering experience
Huda and Alia Hathaf are sisters and based in Wales, they started volunteering in RNIB in the summer of 2020 as Telephone Group Facilitators. They are both studying Optometry at Cardiff University and joined RNIB after their University Lecturer suggested it would be a good place to gain volunteer experience.
RNIB and Guide Dogs NI offer first of its kind sight loss training for school counsellors
Led by RNIB NI (The Royal National Institute of Blind People), in partnership with Guide Dogs NI, the Counselling Insight Project is a two-year venture that received £80,207 of funding from the Department of Health Mental Health Fund, administered by Community Foundation NI.
RNIB demands urgent Government action to address Access to Work delays
Thousands of jobs and careers at risk due to increasing delays
Thousands of jobs at risk due to Government failures in managing the Access to Work scheme
RNIB is demanding that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) makes drastic improvements to the Access to Work scheme it runs to support disabled people to find and stay in work. In December 2022 there were 25,103 outstanding applications, an increase of more than 10,000 in 12 months.