What is the Future Vision Appeal?

[ Colin Dexter OBE Appeal Champion ]

Have you ever noticed our base on Gordon Woodward Way, at the end of Oxford’s Abingdon Road? It is a great and easily accessible location but, unfortunately, all of our current services for local blind and partially sighted people have to be delivered from our small onsite portakabin, which you may have spotted in our car park.

This temporary structure is cramped, cold, inefficient, and expensive to run. There simply isn’t enough space to provide everything that local visually impaired people desperately want and need.

What does it mean?

Future Vision will mean that we can support thousands of Oxfordshire-based children and adults with a visual impairment in a range of new ways, including a face to face counselling and emotional support service, courses in computing, cooking, and kitchen skills, and new services for visually impaired children from the age of four.

All of this will cost £600,000

£350,000 has already been raised.

We are appealing for your help in reaching our target and raising the final £250,000.

How can I help?

Please do help us by donating whatever you can afford.

• £10 could buy a specially adapted toy for a visually impaired child.

• £20 would cover OAB’s costs to host a local meeting club for visually impaired people at the new resource centre for a few hours.

• £50 would enable OAB to provide a face-to-face counselling and emotional support session for a local visually impaired person for one hour.

[ Future Vision Information Leaflet - PDF Version ]

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