Our Family Support co-ordinator will make a home visit to assess the child or parent’s needs and put together a bespoke support package.

We don't receive funding from central or local government and we rely on income from our charitable and fundraising activities to pay for and sustain our services for the visually impaired.     

With your help we can reach even more families whose lives have been changed by sight loss.

Please, can you help?

 Finding out that your child is blind or partially sighted, or experiencing sight loss yourself is a life changing event. Yet faced with this devastating diagnosis many families don’t have vital information about the services and support they so desperately need to cope with all the practical and emotional challenges of sight loss. Open Sight’s Family Service can help. We make sure that children and parents whose lives have been changed by sight loss can access the specialist equipment, disability benefits, education, leisure activities and any other support they require to meet their additional day to day needs and to flourish.     

  River who is 6, has been blind from birth. When River was diagnosed with Nerve Hypoplaysia , her mother Georgie was devastated and describes herself as “being numb and unable to function for a long time”.  Fortunately a friend told her about Open Sight and over the years, our Family Service Co-ordinator, Jenny has been there to provide Georgie with the emotional support she needed to come to terms her daughter’s sight loss and has helped Georgie to access the services, disability benefits and specialist equipment that River needs as she grows up.  Open Sight’s Family Days have also meant that River and Georgie have been able to meet up with and make friends with other visually impaired children and their families .    

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