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RNIB wins Third Sector Business Charity Award
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has won a prestigious industry award highlighting the vital support the charity provided to people with sight loss during the Coronavirus pandemic.
RNIB, the Guardian and Google unite to launch accessible storytelling website
Today, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day (20 May), the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the Guardian and Google have launched Auditorial, an experiment in storytelling that can adapt to suit blind and low vision readers.
Sport England funds development of participation in sport amongst people with sight loss
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), in partnership with British Blind Sport, has received £1m in funding from Sport England for three years to develop participation in sport amongst people with sight loss.
RNIB responds to the Queen’s Speech 2021
On 11 May, the UK Government’s priorities for the year ahead were announced in the Queen’s Speech. Find out what we have to say about some of the relevant issues affecting blind and partially sighted people living in the UK.
RNIB Launch new Wellbeing Check-ins for Mental Health Awareness Week 2021
Adults and young people over the age of eleven, who are blind or partially sighted, and anyone in their support networks, can now avail of a one-off Mental Wellbeing Check-in as well as counselling or confidence-building programmes through the Need to Talk project, run by the charity RNIB in Northern Ireland.
RNIB's Need to Talk counselling service can offer reassurance to those with sight loss
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and RNIB Scotland is highlighting the emotional reassurance and practical help it offers during the coronavirus lockdown and its aftermath.
RNIB responds to inquiry on Government response to coronavirus
We have responded to the “Coronavirus: lessons learnt” parliamentary inquiry into the response to the pandemic.
Springhill Tesco customers help create a lifeline for people with sight loss during lockdown
Ken Carson and Pauline Canning from Bangor are on a fundraising mission to sponsor two new RNIB Talking Books for the 56,400 blind and partially sighted people in Northern Ireland, and many more across the UK, for years to come.
Nine years is too long to wait for platform safety
RNIB welcomes the fact that Network Rail is developing a policy and process to install tactile across all stations, but we feel its timeframe for completion by 2029 is not acceptable.
Six ways we’ve made the UK vaccination programme more accessible
RNIB has been working with the Government to ensure the rollout of the vaccination programme is accessible for blind and partially sighted people.