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Services and support for visually impaired people factsheet
Services and support for visually impaired people factsheet
Who can access services and support?
Anyone with a visual impairment can access services and support; it is not necessary to be registered.
(A visual impairment is an eye condition that cannot be corrected by spectacles).
Getting help from the Council
- Kingston Council’s Sensory Impairment Team: 0208 547 6600 (Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9.00am – 1.00pm)
- Kingston Council leaflet: ‘Helping Adults Keep Safe and Independent’ – for a copy phone: 020 8547 6123
Kingston Association for the Blind
Kingston Association for the Blind (KAB): 020 8605 0060 (office hours).
Support from Kingston Association for the Blind (KAB) includes:
- General advice and help filling in forms
- Buddy schemes where trained volunteers are introduced to visually impaired people
- Talking Newspaper
- Quarterly newsletter for members
- Craft and social club
Other voluntary organisations
- Kingston Centre for Independent Living (www.kcil.org.uk) 020 8546 9603,
(Direct payments service, newsletter (including in alternative formats), holiday grants, black and minority ethnic disability project) - Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) (www.rnib.org.uk): Helpline 0303 123 9999,
(Information, support and advice to people with sight loss) - Macular Disease Society (www.maculardisease.org): 0845 241 2041
(Self-help society for those diagnosed with any of the eye conditions encompassed by the overall name of Macular Disease) - Action for Blind People (www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk): Helpline 0800 915 4666,
(employment support, housing services, leisure, holidays, information and support) - Guide Dogs for the Blind (www.guidedogs.org.uk): 0118 983 5555,
(training and provision of guide dogs, research, campaigning)
This factsheet is also available as a pdf for ease of printing- see link below.
‘Stay Independent’ factsheets are produced by a partnership of statutory and voluntary sector organisations providing information and advice for disabled and older people in Kingston.
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