Every year throughout the month of October we celebrate Blindness Awareness Month.

As a charity supporting children and young adults with sight loss, VICTA will be marking this month to help put a spotlight on vision impairments and help raise awareness of eye conditions and how being blind or partially sighted can effect daily life.

It’s time to get educated about eye conditions!

Every person’s experience of living with sight loss is unique to them. Sight is a spectrum and there are a breadth of conditions and circumstances that can cause sight loss, and within that, varying effects on what useful vision an individual may have. Learning more about a person’s specific condition can help you know what to expect and how best to support them. The VICTA Parent Portal has lots of information you can read with links to find out more, and links to videos that simulate different eye conditions.

Click here to read more on the Parent Portal >

How VICTA is celebrating Blindness Awareness Month

We’re handing over to our VICTA Changemakers! Across October the Changemakers, a group of VI young adults passionate about raising awareness and positively representing blindness, will be sharing their stories on the VICTA Student Portal.

Make sure you sign up to our email updates to receive all their latest stories, checkout the Student Portal and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, X and Facebook @VICTAUK.

Visit the Student Portal: victastudents.org.uk
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How VICTA can help

VICTA supports blind and partially sighted children and young people from 0 to 29 years and their families across the UK. Our award-winning activities and services foster friendships and develop life skills with a focus on academic and workplace readiness.

  • Early Years Sensory Discover Packs and events for 0 to4s
  • Family days and weekends
  • Residential youth activities to develop life skills for 10 to 13s
  • International expeditions
  • Introductions to sport
  • Summer Camp for 14 to 17s
  • VICTA Changemaker and volunteering opportunities for 18+
  • Opportunities to earn national awards such as the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
  • Parent workshops and network
  • Sleep support from a qualified sleep practitioner

Visit our activity calendar to find out more about taking part >

If you’d like to know more about how we can help, drop us an email at admin@victa.org.uk or call 01908 240 831.

How you can help

Would you like to make a difference to the lives of children and young people with sight loss? You can support VICTA in lots of ways!