Joint Family Day with Bucksvision and Sight Concern Bedfordshire-2017

By |2019-09-11T12:49:22+01:00May 25th, 2017|Categories: Activities, Stories|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Due to the success of last year’s collaborations between VICTA and BucksVision, we were thrilled to kick off the summer with another Joint Family Day. This year was made even bigger and better, thanks to the addition of Sight Concern Bedfordshire, and all 3 organisations were excited for what the day would hold. Thankfully, the weather [...]

VICTA discover the real Cyprus

By |2019-09-11T12:56:15+01:00May 5th, 2017|Categories: Activities, Stories|Tags: , , , , , , |

For VICTA’s first international trip of 2017 we travelled to the beautiful island of Cyprus. This was a dual location trip, with the first half spent on the coast in Paphos and the second half in the Troodos mountain range. After a very early morning and a long day travelling, our group were thrilled to spend [...]

Festive Fundraising

By |2019-09-12T17:52:46+01:00December 23rd, 2016|Categories: Fundraising, Stories, Volunteering|Tags: , |

Another fantastic year of fundraising at Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance was rounded off this month with a day of festive fun at head office. All of the staff got involved wearing their dazzling Christmas jumpers and spread the Christmas goodwill by kindly donating £2 each. There was even more fun to be had with the [...]

Dinosaurs by the sea!

By |2019-09-12T13:37:31+01:00June 22nd, 2016|Categories: Stories|Tags: , , , , , |

VICTA Spring Family Weekend 2016 May 2016, Osmington Bay VICTA’s first Family Weekend of 2016 saw us travelling down to Weymouth to stay at PGL Osmington Bay. It was VICTA’s first trip to Osmington Bay and we were not disappointed. The views of the Jurassic coastline were stunning, and the weather couldn’t have been kinder with [...]

Climbing the Matterhorn for VICTA

By |2025-06-16T14:26:16+01:00October 13th, 2015|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|Tags: , |

It a was gloomy and rainy evening in Chamonix when I arrived. However, undeterred by these short lived weather conditions and fueled with excitement and a determination to carry out my charity climb and environmental research I started my preparations. The BBC weather forecast proved to be correct and the morning was bright and sunny. My [...]

Simon’s Marathon story with Team VICTA

By |2019-09-16T11:48:54+01:00September 16th, 2015|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|Tags: , |

Two years prior to running the marathon, I had suffered a large pneumothorax (collapsed lung). Although not a huge runner prior to this, I had been interested in running & taken a few short distance runs (including a 10k). The pneumothorax, however, truly knocked the wind out of me to the point where even walking was [...]

Team VICTA at the Virgin Money London Marathon 2015

By |2019-09-16T10:00:34+01:00September 16th, 2015|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|Tags: , |

VICTA would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who ran the marathon on our behalf. And we mustn’t forget those who supported, massaged and cheered their hearts out at the 2015 London Marathon. Thank you. This year we were thrilled to be joined in the grandstand by a group of students from New [...]

Trekking Jordan for VICTA

By |2019-09-16T09:39:56+01:00September 16th, 2015|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|Tags: , |

Wendy Coles (aka Grandma!) recently completed an amazing challenge – a trek from the Dead Sea to Petra. Following the recent loss of her sight in one eye through a detached retina, Wendy set out to raise money for VICTA setting herself an amazing target of £4,000. Petra seemed the perfect choice and is close to [...]

Cycling through the elements and over mountains for VICTA

By |2019-09-16T09:29:42+01:00September 16th, 2015|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|Tags: , |

Glen’s Fundraising Story The Pendle 600 is an ‘Audax‘ event in which people aim to ride 619km over just two days in 40 hours. I’d signed up for this event just two months in advance on the spur of the moment, with a few days to go I was very nervous. I hadn’t had the chance [...]

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