Our Spring Family Weekends take place annually every May half-term. These weekends make up some of the biggest and most looked-forward to events in the VICTA calendar, and the whole team enjoys getting stuck in! We love catching up with new and familiar families and ensuring that [...]
This year marks the third successful cycle of VICTA’s Get Workplace Ready programme, an innovative three-month journey designed to help young adults with a vision impairment move confidently towards employment, further education, and independence. Although we’re only partway through, the impact is already unmistakable. A strong start at the [...]
VICTA's 10 to 13s took part in an Equine Taster day in October at Penniwells Riding for the Disabled Centre in Elstree. During the day we took some of their lovely horses for a ride in the arena – this was made accessible via a hydraulic mounting block (essentially a lift that puts [...]
Ever wondered what makes a roller coaster go faster and slow down when it needs to? Our curious group of 10 to 13s got to find out for themselves in the most fun way possible - with LEGO! To round off an action packed British Science Week, full of opportunities through the VICTA online [...]
VICTA’s sporty summer continued in August with a Beach Volleyball Family Day at Yellowave Beach Sports in Brighton. Blessed with beautiful sunshine, the VICTA team welcomed eight families for a beach volleyball taster session hosted by the fantastic Yellowave team. Families practised their aces and spikes using bell balls in [...]
My Name is Kirsty Miller and I’m raising funds for VICTA by running the 2026 London Marathon as part of a team of three - my brother-in-law Mark, my cousin Colin and myself. Can you describe the fundraising initiative? We all passed around some ideas on what would be the best way to [...]
Hi, I am Mags and this is my 1st London Marathon, by the time I do it, I will be 55 years old and probably the only time I will run London but I will continue to run other Marathons. I started running at 51 and have so far done 5 other Marathons. [...]
This February saw brave VICTA young adults take flight at iFly, an indoor skydiving experience in Milton Keynes! They flew alongside brilliant VICTA senior volunteer Danny Heppenstall and two amazing London Marathon runners, Debbie Monnington and Dr Steve Ward-Smith. What a way to beat the February winter blues — everyone [...]
2025 has been an action-packed year for VICTA Sport. Starting with an England Athletics event at Leeds Beckett University in February and finishing with a VICTA Sport Young Achievers Day in Kent, we have been all over the country bringing more opportunities to get involved in sport for blind and partially [...]
Hiya I’m Hannah and I’m from Aberdeenshire. I’ve been running for 3/4 years now and I’m running the 2026 London Marathon for VICTA. I was diagnosed with a visual impairment called Nystagmus at a young age. I have been very fortunate in my experience, which has been very mild, [...]
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