The Birmingham Triathlon Club showed pure determination and endurance completing a 24 hour triathlon raising funds for their club and for VICTA. The team were inspired to support VICTA through team member Jack Garner. Jack, who is visually impaired himself, has attended VICTA activities and experienced first hand how our funds are put to use. In [...]
My son Ryley has bi-lateral optic nerve/renal coloboma (along with a few other visual issues) and is registered as severely visually impaired. Whilst he is an active, confident and happy 10 year old, there are a whole host of activities which he is simply excluded from. A couple of years ago, we heard about VICTA and [...]
Written by Matthew Clark One of the greatest experiences of my youth has been three times attending the ICC, an international camp for young people from across Europe who are blind or partially sighted. I have wonderful memories of Vienna 2009, Athens 2010 and Cluj 2012 (Romania). Each camp wasn’t just fun but helped develop skills. [...]
I started running in May 2011 when my sister entered race for life… I decided I needed to get fitter and set some stretching goals. In March 2012 I ran my first half marathon in Bath. Between then and February 2014 I ran over 20 half marathons a bunch of 10kms and a smattering of 5kms. [...]
VICTA volunteer Jamie has pledged to support us in a series of fundraising events across the year. I’m sure many of you know Jamie, who has volunteered on several of our activities over the last few years. He is a loyal volunteer and we’re sure you will all enjoy following his progress. Jamie has seen first-hand [...]
We are starting to feel very festive here at VICTA! The season was kicked off by our VICTA Christmas party which was hosted for our 18+ young people and volunteers. This year the festivities were held at Bistro Live in Milton Keynes and it proved extremely popular – we were quite quickly fully booked. It was [...]
Running for VICTA… pace designer Tom will be pounding the streets of London come April 21st as he has landed a place in the London Marathon 2013! Tom said; “My target is to raise £2,000 for VICTA – a charity who look after blind and partially sighted children, just like my son Billy. He has a [...]
VICTA patron Michel Roux Jr is the latest high profile name to take on the financial markets and become a ‘Celebrity Trader’. Every month City Index challenge a celebrity to learn to trade on the financial markets and then dive straight in with the aim of raising as much money as possible for their chosen charity. [...]
Over the year VICTA have received great support from Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance – both through their fundraising and volunteering. After running the London Marathon for VICTA earlier this year, Managing Director Chris Sprenger was taken with our charity and wanted to get further involved. From this, Highfield selected VICTA as their company charity and [...]
VICTA recently awarded ‘The Change Foundation’ a grant which contributed to them being able to travel to Nepal for the first ever international female visually impaired cricket match. The Change Foundation (the new name for ‘Cricket for Change’) is a charity which aims to use cricket as the means to change the lives of disadvantaged and [...]
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