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Visual Impairment (VI) Charity Sector Partnership

About Us

Visual Impairment (VI) Charity Sector Partnership

The Visual Impairment (VI) Charity Sector Partnership

Eight of the leading charities in the sight loss sector have joined together to form the VI Charity Sector Partnership The aim of this partnership is to provide strategic overview of initiatives that will lead to improving the lives of blind and partially sighted people and those at risk of sight loss across the UK.  

This VI Insight Hub is a key strategic priority initiative of the Partnership.

The sector-wide VI Insight Hub is an accessible, up-to-date and authoritative source of evidence, insights and facts from research, literature and other sources relating to people living with, or at risk of, sight-loss.

The VI Insight Hub, or the Hub, provides a curated source of verified and trusted information and data that can be accessed, freely, by anyone looking for information that can benefit those living with sight-loss.  It will provide a single, trusted source of truth for the whole sector and beyond, and will help to inform and stimulate research, policy development, improved service delivery, fundraising opportunities and journalistic enquiry.   

Who is it for

Anyone looking for information that can benefit those living with sight-loss.

Including:

  • People living with sight loss
  • Families, carers and support staff
  • Employers
  • Policy makers, Governments and government departments
  • Charities and their staff and volunteers
  • Research organisations
  • Commercial, retailers, tech and transport companies
  • MOD and service charities
  • Sight loss sector
  • Local authorities
  • Health and social care sectors
  • Academia
  • Media

VI Charity Sector Partners and the Hub founding partners

Get involved

If you have research or other useful information to share or you wish to share a news story that might benefit people living with sight loss or the sector please do get in contact. You can use the details on the Contact Us page or click on the button below.