Help for blind or partially sighted people is coming to your town soon. Thanks to a grant from the Esmee Fairbairn Epic programme, local user-led organisation Sandwell Visually Impaired (SVI) will be setting up support groups in all of the six towns of Sandwell. The grant of over £7,000 will help …
Coming up in 2020
We wish you a happy, healthy and peaceful 2020. It’s a new year, a new decade and there has never been a better time to start doing more things. Over the next three months we’ve got plenty of activities and events coming up – old favourites and new. We’ve also got exciting news about successful …
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
To our members and friends! Thanks for being part of another fantastic year here at Sandwell Visually Impaired. We hope you have enjoyed this year's activities. You can see that our Active 60 group rounded off their year in style with Santa! We have many more ideas to come for the new year and …
SVI Holiday Closing Times
The SVI office will close for the holidays on Friday 20 December at 1pm. We reopen on Monday 6 January. Season's Greetings everyone! If you need urgent help, please call Sandwell Council on 0121 569 2200. …
Trip to the Barber Institute
We organise regular visits to the Barber Institute for our members. It's one of the many opportunities we take to enable visually impaired people to engage fully with arts, crafts and other cultural activities. SVI member Liz describes a recent visit and tells us why the art shown was important …
