The team at Huxter & Davy Opticians are taking on an incredible challenge to run, walk, and cycle 10,000km to raise vital funds for people with sight loss in Cornwall and Devon! Pop into their Cornish branches to wish the team good luck and to show your support, or click the link in the article ⬇️

This week is #CervicalCancerPreventionWeek. Cervical screening is a free NHS test which checks for high risk HPV, which is the cause of nearly all cervical cancers. If you're nervous about attending, check out what support and adjustments are available - https://bit.ly/49yTHh7

It's great news that, following a public consultation and years of campaigning from sight loss charities, the Department for Transport has confirmed that local councils will be given new and improved legal powers to stop pavement parking! www.gov.uk/government/n...

Looking for a way to kick-start your 'new year, new you'? Then why not become an iSightCornwall Walking Buddy? You'll be paired with a blind or visually impaired person in your area and join them for short walks.

We had a wonderfully festive lunch with the members and volunteers of Bugle Blues Club! The club took a day off from bowling to enjoy a lovely outing filled with good cheer, good food, and lots of laughter! Wishing all of the members and volunteers a wonderful Christmas!

A festive time was had by all at the Par Dance Club Christmas party! The members and volunteers enjoyed a lovely lunch and a jolly dance session with festive songs. Thank you so much to all of our brilliant volunteers who helped make the party happen and for inviting us to join in the fun!

Wishing a happy festive season to the members and volunteers of BUGS (Blind Using Guided Sights) shooting club who recently enjoyed a lovely Christmas meal!

It's World Kindness Day 2025! A simple way to spread kindness is to join iSightCornwall's wonderful team of volunteers, who are helping to make a real difference to the lives of blind and partially sighted people in Cornwall!

With presenter Davina McCall in the news encouraging women to attend their breast cancer screenings, and check themselves regularly; we caught up with iSightCornwall trustee Beatrix Love to ask for her experiences engaging with cancer care as a blind woman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDN5...

It was great to welcome Richard and Matt from Associated Optical to The Sight Centre yesterday! They came in to chat with our Low Vision, Assistive Technology, and Customer Services teams about the latest advancements, new products, and resources for people with sight loss. Thank you so much!

How amazing is this? A pioneering procedure has seen five patients with an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration being fitted with microchips which, when combined with glasses featuring a built in video camera, has restored some of their vision! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thank you to everyone who came to see us at the Community Support Day in St Blazey! It was brilliant to be able to offer help and support with sight loss and also offer advice and referral information to the Three Harbours and Bosvena PCN team members who hosted and attended the event.

The inaugural meeting of our Newquay Audio Book Club was a big success! We welcomed a group of blind and partially sighted book-lovers to Newquay library where they were able to discuss their favourite authors, get to know each other, and of course decide the first book they will read together!

We had a brilliant community drop-in event in Helston! There were lots of fantastic conversations and we hopefully helped and offered support to those who popped in. Thank you to everyone who came!

One of the easiest ways to make your home, office, or business more accessible is using a simple tactile sticker. Known as a Bumpon, these bright raised stickers can be placed to help you quickly and easily navigate using touch alone. Dom explains more in our latest video: youtu.be/OhoNxzYdBBc?...

Today is National Avocado Day! Avocados are great at helping to keep your eyes healthy, being rich in vitamins A, C and E as well as lutein.

Today is National Avocado Day! Avocados are great at helping to keep your eyes healthy, being rich in vitamins A, C and E as well as lutein. Vitamins A, C and E and lutein are antioxidants which help protect our eyes from harmful oxidants which can speed up cell degeneration.

Par Dance Club had a lovely summer party this week with members and volunteers donning their summer outfits and enjoying party food alongside their dancing. A big thank you to the club organisers and volunteers for arranging such a fun day! 💃🕺

We had a busy and brilliant event at Truro Community Library for VisionZone Truro 2025! A huge thank you to everyone who came along, and thank you to Optelec UK - solutions for Low Vision for inviting us, and to all of the library staff for being so helpful!

NHS England has just published the updated Accessible Information Standard, which makes clear how NHS and social care services in England must provide information to blind and partially sighted people in a way they can read. It's a step forward - here's what's improved: #MyInfoMyWay 1/7

Our Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service turns 18 today! Presented to the charity in 2007 by HRH Duchess of Gloucester, The Queen's Award rewards excellence in the voluntary sector through groups working within their communities and is the equivalent to an MBE.

The Rotary Club of Redruth have donated a brilliant £1,250 to iSightCornwall following a 'quacking' good fundraiser at Cornwall Gold! The Rotarians hosted The Great Golden Duck Race which saw 1,373 rubber ducks entering the Tolgus Stream, competing for prizes and raising money for charity.

A huge thank you to the team and customers at Specsavers St Austell for raising a brilliant £84.33 with an iSightCornwall collection tin! Every penny popped in the tin will be spent helping to support blind or partially sighted people in Cornwall.

No other charity does what we do in Cornwall. But a recent surge in demand for our services means that we need the help of our Cornish community more than ever. We're calling on local businesses and community groups to support us and help us to meet this demand.

We had a brilliant sight loss awareness drop-in event in sunny Falmouth yesterday! Thank you so much to everyone who came along, we hope you found it useful! A big thank you also to the exhibitors who joined us.

A huge thank you to Porthleven Christadelphians who have raised £225 for iSightCornwall with their wonderful coffee morning! As a local charity we rely on community donations to deliver our vital services so we are hugely grateful for your support! Thank you!

Scam Alert! We've had a number of our clients tell us they have been targeted by a scam in which fraudsters use their Tesco Mobile account to order an expensive phone. If you have been affected by this scam, contact Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 and contact Tesco Mobile on 0345 301 4455:

Volunteers are absolutely vital to the work @isightcornwall.bsky.social do to support blind and partially sighted people across Cornwall. This Volunteers' Week we simply want to say a huge thank you to all of our volunteers, both past and present, for everything they do. Thank you! #VolunteersWeek

We're continuing to celebrate our volunteers as part of #VolunteersWeek! In today's spotlight is the wonderful Barbara who helps out at Bugle Blues Bowling Club. She keeps the club ticking with arranging transport, sorting out the raffle and of course, her amazing cups of tea! Thank you Barbara!

Happy #VolunteersWeek! A time to shine a spotlight on our incredible team of 150 volunteers - without whom we could not do what we do. All this week we'll be sharing the stories of just some of the brilliant people who donate their time to help blind and partially sighted people in Cornwall.

Hear ye, hear ye! We had a fantastic time at Truro Volunteers' Fair yesterday! We even had a visit from Truro's Town Crier! What a great way to start #VolunteersWeek! If you missed us, or you'd like more info www.isightcornwall.org.uk/volunteering/

We had a fantastic time in Newquay for our Sight Loss Awareness drop-in event yesterday and some great feedback. One person who popped in told us: "This has been incredibly useful, I had no idea about half of what was out there to help people with sight loss. Thank you so much!"

White canes are one of the most common indicators of someone having sight loss but did you know there are different types of canes? We've made a video with iSightCornwall's Dom Hall on the different kinds, what they're for, and how to identify them: youtu.be/UmZaeSY_z9M?...

If you go down into the woods today... you might come across iSightCornwall! We were delighted to be invited to Pigshill and Clarrick woods to help advise their team on the placement of accessible NaviLens codes, which can be used by blind and partially sighted people to help navigate.

Voting today? Check out our guide to voting with sight loss in Cornwall; including information on Photo ID, the assistance available at the polling station, and more: www.isightcornwall.org.uk/voting-with-...

A scientific video game is putting #blind and #PartiallySighted players in the spotlight after the developers at @thentrythis.bsky.social teamed up with @isightcornwall.bsky.social to create an accessible version of their game. Read more: www.visionary.org.uk/news/sight-l...

It's #BowelCancerAwareness month and so we're helping to raise awareness of non-visual signs which mean you should make an appointment with your GP. You don't need sight to look for signs and early diagnosis can save lives.

Great news to hear that the Switch 2 will have accessibility features which will benefit partially sighted gamers; zoom options, font size options, colour contrast options, and text-to-speech on menus! Let's hope the games themselves will support text-to-speech too! 🤞

iSightCornwall members got up close with some wild wonders thanks to a recent workshop at Eden Project! We got to touch some of the plants and hold a cacao pod - smelling the intense aroma and tasting some of the fruit. Read the full blog here: www.isightcornwall.org.uk/isightcornwa...

A huge thank you to the team at iBuntu Opticians for turning a shock burglary into an incredible fundraiser for people with sight loss in Cornwall. We are so grateful! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy April Fool's Day! We're encouraging content creators, businesses and advertisers to make sure everyone can be in on the joke today by ensuring all of their image-based posts have alt text. For some great tips on how to write alt text, click here: www.rnib.org.uk/campaign-wit...

A huge thank you to everyone who supported us through the Cornish Christmas Giving Catalogue, you raised an incredible £385 - which increased to £440 with Gift Aid! Thank you to Truro Diocese for inviting us to take part, what a wonderful idea to give the gift of hope at Christmas. Thank you!

We're incredibly pleased to have the support of iBuntu Opticians who, after being victims of a burglary, are turning a negative into a positive by fundraising for people with sight loss in Cornwall. During the break-in, thieves stole the iSightCornwall collection tin they so kindly hosted.

Gool Peran Lowen! Happy St Piran's Day! We're so proud of our Cornish history; from our creation in 1856 to help the miners who lost their sight in blasting accidents, to our modern day services helping people across the county - we are Cornwall's oldest charity and only sight loss charity.

We've created a UK Sight Loss Sector Starter Pack! As more of us join #BlueSky it's a great way to share news and updates relevant to #BlindAndPartiallySighted people. DM us to join or follow here: go.bsky.app/3BLF1ot

This is why it’s important to add alt text. Because otherwise, your message could get lost for blind and partially sighted people. For Glaucoma Awareness Month, we’ve used a filter that demonstrates sight loss from glaucoma - however everyone's experience will be different.

Nergal has landed! The citizen science game is designed to help researchers understand how people's social networks and decision making change how diseases spread. We teamed up with Now Try This to create a low and no vision version which can be played with sound alone! nergal.thentrythis.org

We're always happy to point people in the right direction when it comes to accessibility so we were delighted to be able to advise on how to make the signage at Meneage Street Surgery's new premises accessible for people with sight loss!

"It's a totally different world when you're blind" We're delighted to debut our short film - Because I Cannot See - which shares the stories of some of the people in Cornwall living with sight loss who have been helped and supported by iSightCornwall: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sbJ...

It's beginning to look a lot like... 'image.' This is the reality for screen reader users when alt text isn’t added. By describing your images (especially those snowy snaps!), you ensure that everyone can enjoy and be included.