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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
13 years ago, my Son Daniel was born 15 weeks early. He spent months being kept alive in hospital, surviving one traumatic hurdle after another, including operations. Before being allowed to bring him home on oxygen, I had to be trained to resuscitate him, as on top of everything else he was also a ‘blue’ baby. [...]
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