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Middlesex Association for the Blind
Registered Charity Number 207007
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Contact numbers for organisations (by area)
The following is a listing of contact details where you can obtain specific information, whether it's what help and advice is available in your borough to the particular visual impairment you want to get more details about.
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I've been diagnosed with a visual impairment..... link yet?
National Organisations
Miscellaneous Organisations (includes sport, theatre and hobbies)
Web pages by, or for, blind and partially sighted people
Suppliers
Travel
Barnet Sensory Impairment Team 020 8359 6009 Barnet Sensory Impairment Team
Disability Action in the Borough of Barnet (DabB) 020 8446 6935. They offer telephone advice Monday-Friday between 10am - 4pm, alternatively they hold drop-in sessions, Monday-Thursday between 1:30pm - 4pm.
Barnet Borough Sight Impaired, 11A Wetherill Road, London, N10 2LS. 020 8883 2255
Age Concern Barnet & Handy-Person Scheme - 020 8203 5040
Barnet Young Carers and Siblings (BYCAS) can provide information, advice and training on issues affecting young carers and siblings - Contact Rosie or Gary on 0208 343 9698
Barnet Citizens Advice Bureau - 0870 128 808, Barnet Citizens' Advice Bureau
Community Focus (Activity & arts centre for disabled people of all abilities) - 020 8369 5484, Community Focus
Barnet Borough Talking Newspaper - 020 8343 4405
Travel Voucher Scheme - 020 8359 4131
Taxicard - 020 7484 2929, Taxicard scheme
Blue Badge Scheme - 020 8359 4208
North London Dial-a-Ride - 020 8829 1200, Transport for London
Goalball (Three-a-side game developed for visually impaired players) - 020 7354 8666, London Sports Forum
Barnet Blind & Partially Sighted Bowls Club - 01582 766328.
Brent Sensory Impairment Services 020 8937 1200
email:customer.services@brent.gov.uk Web:
Brent customer services
Brent Association Of Disabled People 020 8451 3822
email:info@badp.org
Web: BADP
Ealing SVIP Team, Social Services
Email:barrettol@ealing.gov.uk
Web:Ealing SVIP Team
Ealing talking newspapers 020 8840 2313
Email:Ealing Talking Newspapers Web:Ealing Talking Newspapers
Enfield Physical Disabilities, Sensory Impairment and HIV team 020 8379 8010 / 020 8379 8006
Email:disabilities@enfield.gov.uk
Web: Enfield Physical Disabilities
Enfield Disability Action Tel: 020 8373 6228
Email: eda@e-d-a.org.uk Web: Enfield Disability Action
Enfield Vision Tel:020 8351 7259
Email:office@enfieldvision.org.uk
Web: Enfield Vision
Enfield Children & Young Persons Services Tel: 020 8373 2710/11
Email: hamida@ecyps.org.uk
Web: Enfield Children & Young Persons Services
Haringey Phoenix Group. Tel: 020 8889 7070
Web:
Haringey Phoenix Group
Harrow Physical Disability and Sensory Services Tel: 020 8424 1694
Web:Harrow Physical Disability and Sensory Services
Harrow Blind Social Club at Grange Court, Communal Hall, Northolt Road, South Harrow.
Weekly Monday, 7.30 p.m. and weekly Tuesday, 2 p.m.
Harrow Talking Newspapers, Anmer Lodge, Coverdale Close, Stanmore, HA7 3TW.
Harrow Children's Information Service Tel: 020 8861 5609
Email:cservice@harrow.gov.uk
Web: Childcare link (national website)
Hillindon Disabilities Team (01895) 277903
Email:dutyintake@hillingdon.gov.uk
Web: London Borough of Hillingdon
DASH - Disablement Association Hillingdon 020 8848 8319
email: info@dash.org.uk
Web:http://www.dash.org.uk/
Hounslow borough specialist services 020 8583 3300
Web: Hounslow borough specialist services
Hounslow Talking Newspapers - contact Mr Barry Hazel on 0208 560 2787.
Richmond Sensory Services Team on 020 8831 6343
Web:
Richmond Sensory Services Team
Action For Blind People
Association of Blind Asians
The Blind Business Association Charitable Trust (BBACT)
British Blind Sport
British Computer Association of the Blind
British Diabetic Society
British Retinitus Pigmentosa Society
British Wireless For The Blind Fund
Contact a Family
Deafblind UK
Diabetic Retinopathy Website
DisabledGo
www.disabledparentsnetwork.org.uk
Electronic Aids for the Blind
Fight for Sight
Guide Dogs Association for the Blind
International Glaucoma Association
Henshaw's Society for Blind People
Jewish Care
LOOK National Federation Of Families With Visually Impaired Children
Metropolitan Society for the blind
Moorfields Eye Hospital
Macular Disease Society
NALSVI National Association of Local Societies for Visually impaired People
National Blind Children's Society
Nystagmus Network
OBAC Organisation of Blind African Caribbeans
Partially Sighted Society
Patient UK - Patient Support
RNIB
RNCB - Royal National College for the Blind
Thomas Pocklington Trust
SPECS (Specific Eye Conditions)
Insight Radio, Europe's first radio service for blind and partially sighted people, has been launched on Sky Channel 0188. The launch on digital satellite will make the station more accessible across the UK, whilst it continues to broadcast live on the internet.
The station, which currently broadcasts from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, offers blind and partially sighted listeners a varied programme ranging from newspaper and magazine reviews through music request programmes to interactive phone-ins and lifestyle and feature programmes.
Manager of Insight Radio Ross Macfadyen, said: "The radio station of RNIB has had a brilliant year. WE re-launched as Insight Radio, won a Sony Award and opened our FM transmitter in Glasgow. Now the move onto the Sky Digital platform makes this unique radio service more available and more accessible to a much wider and bigger audience across the country. We're looking forward to a great working relationship with the team at Sky."
If you've been to the British Blind Sports link and read about all the sports that you can take part in, you'll realise that there are still lots of activities you can do in spite of having little or no vision.
However, it's understandable that not everyone wants to get involved in sporting activities and might want something a little more sedate to do.
As a starting point, we suggest you read the excellent article by Anne Sunman, entitled Hobbies, Sports and Pastimes - A Guide to help Visually Impaired People.
When Anne lost her sight she found she couldn't find any literature for her family to read about blindness, so she set about designing an information leaflet, this soon became a series.
Gardening is another hobby which, with a little adaptation, can continue to be a worthwhile and interesting pursuit. You can read some excellent advice at Kent Association for the Blind's Useful Advice - Gardening Tips.
Cookery Uncovered is run by David Rowles who has been a restauranteur and chef in north London for more than twenty years. David offers cookery courses for children and adults, registered with sight loss. If you would like further details you can contact David direct at info@cookeryuncovered.com or by telephone on 020 7916 2382.
Of course, surfing the net and using your computer may either be something you've done for ages or you're just getting to grips with.
There are links lower down this page to web pages that have been created by and for people with a visual impairment. These pages provide lots of useful information and further links that you might want to explore.
Talking Computers!No, we don't mean JAWS or Kurzweill. Talking Computers is a free monthly audio magazine about using computers; especially for visually-impaired people who use screen-readers and other aids.
All the editing and copying is done by volunteers. All of the articles on the tapes are provided by the listeners.
Please do not be put off by this, the subjects dealt with on the tapes are not usually complex, some of the articles may prove useful to the sighted as well and many of the web sites recommended on this sight are not only for the visually-impaired, but are sights that have been found easy to use.
If you've only just started using a computer or if you're finding difficulty using the computer with the onset of your visual impairment, why not consider our IT training?
Our short courses offer one-to-one training in basic computing and using the internet and you can read more about this at MAB's Computer Training page.
Please note that the following links are provided "as is" and, at the time of collation, these links were active.
Blind net Predominantly American but there are still some links that may be of interest.
Communication Aids Project Although this project ended in 31st March, its pages still contain useful information about using ICT to support visual impairment and include various factsheets and information on software, hardware and courses.
braillerman This American site lists a number of interesting sites for and about visual impairment.
Esmerel Assistive Technology and Other Products for the Blind.
Blindness-Related Resources on the Web and Beyond This site is well ordered and is just one section of a much larger site "Camera Obscura" with many useful reference links, including electronic text archives, virtual and onoline libraries and journals.
Inspired code offers various shareware downloads including a screen reader, talking text editor and a musical tetris game.
Brailler.com Great text links on the subject of blindness, technology and computing.
Blind readers This site is a guide to sources of information in alternative formats.
Webbie Originally developed by the School of Informatics at the University of Manchester who have supported its development and made it freely available for public use. Alasdair King maintains the Webbie site which provides free downloads of access technology.
Cobolt A U.K. based company specialising in the design, manufacture and supply of innovative aids for the blind and partially sighted.
IC-Online Ltd A supplier of Low Vision equipment.
Optelec-Tieman Group Providers of video magnifiers, audio text readers, braille keyboards and access technology. Tel: 01923 231313 or Email: info@optelec.co.uk.
For information about travelling, both home and abroad see our dedicated Travel web page
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