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Thomas Pocklington Trust launches COVID-19 Emergency Fund for the Sight Loss Sector

30 March 2020
Source: Thomas Pocklington Trust

Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT) has just launched an emergency fund to support sight loss organisations which are providing vital services to blind and partially sighted people during the COVID-19 pandemic. £500,000 of essential support will be available to sight loss sector organisations to allow them to continue providing critical services for the physical and emotional wellbeing of blind and partially

30 March 2020
Source: Civil Society

All National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) funding decisions in the next six months will be devoted to responding to the Covid-19 crisis. This involves up to £300m of funding. NLCF said it will accelerate the cash part of this funding as much as possible. Dawn Austwick, the chief executive of the NLCF, said it has been talking to grant holders

30 March 2020
Source: ACEVO

Last week ACEVO and other membership bodies launched the #EveryDayCounts campaign. Through this campaign, we are asking the government to provide emergency funding that will keep charities alive and enable them to continue to serve their communities. However, despite regular engagement with officials and some amazing support from MPs and peers of all political parties, our understanding is that this

Logos pf Vision UK, Visionary, RNIB, Guide Dogs and TPT

27 March 2020
Source: Vision UK, Visionary, Guide Dogs, RNIB, TPT

Vision UK, RNIB, Guide Dogs, TPT and Visionary are asking the Government to urgently work with supermarkets to ensure that people with sight loss are considered a priority group able to access online shopping. Letter attached below:

Joint Letter On Prioritising Online Shopping For VI People Docx

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Blind Veterans UK launches new National Support Service to reach and support blind veterans during Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

27 March 2020
Source: Blind Veterans UK

Sight loss charity Blind Veterans UK has today (23/03) announced a new service to allow them to continue to support blind veterans throughout the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. This National Support Service will see the charity adapt how it supports its 5,000 beneficiaries, many of which are amongst those most at risk from the virus. More than 90% of Blind Veterans

27 March 2020
Source: NIHR

Until further notice, the NIHR Clinical Research Network is pausing the site set up of any new or ongoing studies at NHS and social care sites that are not nationally prioritised COVID-19 studies. This will enable our research workforce to focus on delivering the nationally prioritised COVID-19 studies or enabling redeployment to frontline care where necessary. These studies are enabling

26 March 2020
Source: Macular Society

Leading sight loss charity the Macular Society has introduced a range of new telephone and online services to continue supporting people with macular disease in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The charity has suspended all of its face-to-face services, including the meetings of its peer support groups throughout the UK, to protect members, volunteers and people using its services

26 March 2020
Source: Optometry Scotland

Dated 25/03/2020 Last Friday, the Scottish Government offered to maintain the structure and integrity of community eyecare in Scotland by providing each practice with average GOS payments. This was further enhanced by the provision of additional payments for emergency and enhanced services. Last night, SGHD secured the Cabinet Secretary for Health’s agreement in permitting community optometry practices to remain open

26 March 2020
Source: RNIB

This data tool provides information about blind and partially sighted people and those at risk of sight loss at a local level throughout the UK. To download the data tool, go to the RNIB website. The RNIB’s Sight Loss Data Tool is the UK’s biggest collection of eye health datasets. It collates a wide range of publicly available datasets and

25 March 2020

We’ve come together with Guide Dogs, Thomas Pocklington Trust, RNIB and Visionary to share information and advice FAQs on and around Coronavirus (COVID-19) which will be frequently updated: https://www.sightadvicefaq.org.uk/independent-living/Covid-19 Helplines for support for blind and partially sighted people from our members and friends are on the attached document

Helplines

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News

Thomas Pocklington Trust launches COVID-19 Emergency Fund for the Sight Loss Sector

Civil Society: National Lottery Community Fund frees up £300m to help charities with Covid-19 crisis

ACEVO chief executive Vicky Browning writes about how charity leaders can support the #EveryDayCounts campaign.

Joint letter to Rt Hon George Eustice MP on adding people with Visual Impairment to groups to ensure that they have priority access to buy goods online

Blind Veterans UK launches new National Support Service to reach and support blind veterans during Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

DHSC issues guidance on the impact of COVID-19 on research funded or supported by NIHR

Macular Society increases telephone and online support services

Message from Optometry Scotland: Ongoing Provision of Essential Eyecare Services

Sight Loss Data Tool Version 4.2

Collaboration on Sight Advice FAQ’s for COVID 19