VICTA Sport Travel Offer to Metro Blind Sport’s Athletics Games 2025

VICTA is offering up to £50 travel expense cover to enable you to take part in Metro Blind Sport’s Athletics Open.

Please note that you must register to attend this event through the Metro Blind Sport website. The deadline is 1 June 2025. Once you have registered with Metro Blind Sport, you can apply for the VICTA Travel Offer using the form below. The deadline to apply for our Travel Offer is 13 June 2025, the day before the event.

Metro Blind Sport website: metroblindsport.org

Register for the event by 1 June: https://pocklington.tfaforms.net/5069057

Metro Blind Sport  invites athletes from 10 years and upwards, of all experience levels and abilities throughout the UK, to join them at the Athletics Day.

The VICTA offer

VICTA will cover travel expenses up to £50 for those wishing to attend the Metro Blind Sport Athletics Games. This offer only applies to the cost of the travel for a young person with a vision impairment from 10 years old up to the age of 29 and not for any travel companions.

 Travel expenses will be paid after the event. Please also note that this is a limited offer and VICTA reserves the right to close it once we reach capacity.

To benefit from this offer, you must:

• Live outside London
• Be 10 to 29 years old at the time of the event
• Be registered or registrable as having a vision impairment

If you are interested, please complete the following application form:

Apply for the travel offer

Note for applicants completing this form After completion, if you have successfully submitted the form, you should receive a successful submission message. If you do not it may be because you have not completed a required field. After your form has successfully gone through you will also receive notification via email. If you do not receive an email please contact the office on 01908 240 831 as there may have been a problem with your application.

Applicant details

First name *

Last name *

Gender *

• Male
• Female
• Other

If you have selected other, how do you currently describe yourself?

Date of birth *

Would you describe yourself as blind/partially sighted? *

• Blind
• Partially Sighted

Do you use a long cane?

• Yes
• No

Do you have a guide dog? *

• Yes
• No

Contact details

Email *

Phone (please provide us with the most convenient number to contact the activity applicant on) *

Address 1 *

Address 2

City *

Post code *

Emergency contact (EC)

EC full name *

Relationship to participant *

EC address *

EC primary number *

EC secondary number

EC email *

Eye condition

Name of eye condition? *

If this is the first VICTA activity that you are applying for, please note that applicants must be registered sight impaired or severely sight impaired, or be able to provide proof that they are registerable. Any information or documents supplied must include the applicant’s name, date of birth and visual acuity.

Confirmation of vision impairment *

• I confirm I am/the applicant is registered or registerable Sight Impaired or Severely Sight Impaired

Supporting documentation
If the applicant is registered, please include a copy of one of the following registration documents: - Certificate of Visual Impairment (CVI) - Blind Registration Card issued by local authority If the applicant is not registered, please provide: - a letter from an ophthalmologist confirming visual acuity. Please note, applications cannot be processed without these documents.

Uploading documents

If you would like to upload any supporting documents such as a copy of your registration document, you can do so here (please supply a jpg or pdf). If supplying a CVI, please include Parts 1 & 2. If you are including a copy of a Blind Registration Card, please remember to include both sides. Only files saved as a jpeg or pdf formats will be accepted by the upload. Alternatively, you can email them to activities@victa.org.uk

Click or drag files to this area to upload. You can upload up to 5 files.

Declaration, privacy and consent

Applicants must be aged 10 to 29 years *

• I confirm that my child will be 10 to 29 years old at the time of this activity

Signed (insert name) *

Date *

My relationship to the applicant (if applicable)

• Parent
• Legal guardian
• Other

If 'other' please state

Would you like to be added to our email database to receive occasional email updates about other VICTA activities? *

• Yes please
• No thank you
• I'm already signed up

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