Sensory-Scape Challenge with the Wildlife Trusts

By |2021-10-14T11:56:54+01:00October 14th, 2021|Categories: Stories|Tags: , , , |

Find the Four! For Blindness Awareness Month and World Sight Day, The Wildlife Trusts and VICTA are setting you a Sensory-Scape Challenge - Find the Four! The challenge is to identify four different things with four different senses. This is a four senses nature scavenger hunt - by completing this challenge you [...]

Sunflower gallery

By |2021-10-01T09:46:19+01:00October 1st, 2021|Categories: Activities, Stories|

On #WorldSmileDay, flowers to make you smile Thank you to everyone who planted, watered and cared for their tiny sunflower seeds to grow something magnificent! The sun hasn't always been on our side these past few months, so we're astonished by how many beautiful flowers made it through to touch the sky. As we enjoy [...]

VICTA tactile medal competition

By |2021-09-23T10:16:14+01:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: Activities, Stories|

The tactile medal winners To celebrate the 2021 Paralympic Games we challenged you to come up with your own tactile, accessible medal design. It was too close to call, so we have joint winners - Caitlin Passey, age 7 and Benji Bates, age 6. Congratulations, enjoy your sports vouchers! The winners [...]

VICTA sand sculpture competition

By |2021-09-02T12:30:57+01:00September 2nd, 2021|Categories: Activities, Stories|

The sand sculpture gallery Thank you to everyone who grabbed their buckets and spades and entered our sandcastle competition. We loved seeing your entries and hope you had lots of fun building them. A big congratulations to our winner Mera Bedran age 10, and our runner up Chloe Stevenson, age 4, who were drawn at [...]

Volunteers’ Week thank you round-up

By |2021-06-07T13:51:48+01:00June 7th, 2021|Categories: Stories, Volunteering|

It's been great to take a moment to appreciate our volunteer team over the past week. Thank you to everyone who took part in this year's Volunteers' Week. Here are a some of the memories you shared: Phoebe standing with a group of volunteers and a guide dog, all wearing [...]

Volunteering towards our DofE Awards!

By |2021-06-07T11:30:42+01:00June 2nd, 2021|Categories: Stories, Volunteering|

#PowerOfYouth #iWill Today's Volunteers' Week theme is 'Power of Youth' and our DofE Award participants are the perfect example of youth power!  As part of the work towards earning their Award, VICTA DofE participants need to find for themselves opportunities to volunteer and give back to the community. We asked them to share with [...]

Award winning volunteers!

By |2021-06-02T10:06:26+01:00June 2nd, 2021|Categories: Stories, Volunteering|

Our celebration of our volunteers continues with a look back at a proud and well deserved award-winning moment! In 2019, VICTA volunteer Bob Lowrie was Highly Commended at the Third Sector Awards in the 'Volunteer of the Year' category. We wanted to show Bob our appreciation as he's been donating his time and volunteering [...]

Laying out your garden and getting started

By |2021-05-27T09:32:19+01:00June 1st, 2021|Categories: Stories|Tags: |

Thanks to Dylan Cheshire, Horticultural Manager at WESC for sharing this helpful guide on laying out your garden! The WESC Foundation is a specialist day and residential centre in Devon offering a unique experience for young people and adults with visual impairment including complex needs. Their Discovery Garden is an onsite outdoor [...]

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