Community Impact Award 2024

Galloways

We are proud to be shortlisted for this award and would appreciate your support. The Mind Their Sight Project has made a significant impact on individuals living with sight loss and multiple health challenges, such as anxiety and high blood pressure. Here’s why we deserve your vote:

Our project addresses both sight loss and other health conditions, providing holistic care that is often missing in traditional services. By focusing on physical and mental health, we supported participants in leading more rewarding and healthier lives.

We offered unique programs such as Tai Chi and QiGong classes to promote physical health and mindfulness courses to help manage anxiety and stress. These activities were specifically designed to meet the needs of individuals with sight loss.

The success of our project is reflected in the feedback from our participants. Val, a participant, shared, “This project helped me live in the moment, enjoy life more, understand my feelings, and significantly reduce my anxiety.”

Your vote can help us continue to provide these vital services and expand our reach to assist even more people facing similar challenges. Thank you for considering the Mind Their Sight Project.

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Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey

Please vote for our change makers!

People with a sensory impairment in Surrey have worked together, with the back up of our Community Champions, to launch 6 community hubs. These hubs are reducing loneliness and social isolation by creating the conditions for authentic friendships to be born and flourish. They draw on the principles of Asset Based Community Development to do so. They were modeled on the Camerados concept of Public Living Rooms and are no agenda spaces, where people can just be humans alongside each other, helping each other and sharing their skills and knowledge.

Our Community Champions have worked so hard to move beyond co-production, and to Asset Based Community Development and this is having an impact on the culture of the organisation beyond this project – helping us to move beyond the traditional ‘charity’ model, and enabling and empowering people to do what matters most to them.

Vision Norfolk

We provide individual support, for people with impaired vision and sight loss, across the county of Norfolk. From the tranquility of the Broads and Coast to the hustle and bustle of our market towns, coastal resorts and the Fine City of Norwich. The people we serve are treated with respect, dignity and appropriate support to meet their needs.

We have worked hard as a team to establish a new service and to meet the varied needs of everyone we support. We have provided practical support, independent living skills, equipment advice, admin support and have shared our knowledge of social care and many other subjects.
We continue to innovate and develop our service and never apply the rule of “one size fits all”. We continue the 219 year tradition of enabling people with sight loss and impaired vision to live well and to have fulfilling lives.