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Established in 1921, the Vision Foundation transforms lives of people facing or living with sight loss, funding projects and campaigns to inform, empower and include. We invest in the best services providing opportunities, wellbeing inclusion for blind and partially sighted people across London.
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Beneficiaries
Situation
There are over 200,000 people living with sight loss in London - 52,000 who are of working age, only a quarter will have a job. Alongside poor employment, blind and partially sighted people tell us that they face barriers in taking part in sport, social and culture – things sighted people might take for granted. This often leads to isolation, poverty, discrimination and exclusion. There’s a measurable cost to this – economic impact of sight loss in the capital is estimated £2.7bn a year.
Solution
When you have a big problem, you need a big solution. The Vision Fund supports organisations delivering services directly to blind and partially sighted people across London, and opens up wider specialist services (eg. homelessness, domestic violence, volunteering projects) which are not otherwise accessible to blind and partially sighted people.
