October is an important month for us at VICTA as we welcome Blindness Awareness Month, an opportunity to raise awareness and bring eye conditions and living with a vision impairment to the forefront of people’s minds. Have you ever thought about what it would be like day-to-day if you were blind or partially sighted and how it can effect daily life? Blindness Awareness Month is the perfect time to start educating yourself around blindness and vision impairments.
VICTA is a national charity supporting children and young adults with sight loss, and we have lots of ways we can support you or your visually impaired child. Sign up for our emails to receive updates when new activities are open for application or new opportunities such as our grant programme or parent workshops go live.
How VICTA is celebrating Blindness Awareness Month
Stay tuned to the VICTA Student Portal and our social media channels as we hand over creative control to our VICTA Changemakers! Across October the Changemakers, a group of VI young adults passionate about raising awareness and positively representing blindness, will be sharing their stories.
Where to watch, listen and read:
Meet the Changemakers on the Student Portal: victastudents.org.uk/changemakers
Latest stories to your inbox: Sign up to email updates >
Follow on social media:
Instagram: @VICTAUK
TikTok: @VICTAUK
Facebook: @VICTAUK
LinkedIn: /victauk
VICTA Parent Network
A parent’s perspective
Follow us on social media this month as parents share their perspectives on blindness and the things they’ve learned watching their vision impaired child grow up and take on the world.
Blindness is a spectrum – find out about eye conditions
Every person’s experience of living with sight loss is unique to them. Sight is a spectrum and there are a breadth of conditions and circumstances that can cause sight loss, and within that, varying effects on what useful vision an individual may have. Learning more about a person’s specific condition can help you know what to expect and how best to support them. The VICTA Parent Portal has lots of information you can read with links to find out more, and links to videos that simulate different eye conditions.
How VICTA can help
VICTA supports blind and partially sighted children and young people from 0 to 29 years and their families across the UK. Our award-winning activities and services foster friendships and develop life skills with a focus on academic and workplace readiness.
- Early Years Sensory Discover Packs and events for 0 to4s
- Family days and weekends
- Residential youth activities to develop life skills for 10 to 13s
- VICTA Sport – introductions to VI sports
- Summer Camp for 14 to 17s
- VICTA Changemaker and volunteering opportunities for 18+
- Employability Course for 18 to 29s
- VICTA Young Achievers Award & VICTA Sport Young Achievers Award for children following a primary curriculum
- Opportunities to earn national awards such as the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
- Parent support workshops and VICTA Parent Network
- International expeditions
- Sleep support from a qualified sleep practitioner
Visit our activity calendar to find out more about taking part >
Visit the Student Portal to discover how to take part in our Young Achievers Award schemes >
If you’d like to know more about how we can help, drop us an email at admin@victa.org.uk or call 01908 240 831.
How you can help
Would you like to make a difference to the lives of children and young people with sight loss? You can support VICTA in lots of ways!
- Become a volunteer >
- Create meaningful change as a Corporate Partner or take up our Corporate Challenge >
- Run the London Marathon >
- Start your own fundraiser, get in touch at fundraising@victa.org.uk
- Play the VICTA lottery >
- Make a donation >
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