Connect Voices Round Up 26 January 2022

Max Conway, RNIB's National Involvement Coordinator shares the latest opportunities for blind and partially sighted people to get involved in.

Opportunities highlighted this week included:

Casting call for blind and partially sighted actors to star in a new Paramount Pictures feature film called  'Need Your Eyes' -

The film is about a psych student who volunteers to receive anonymous video calls from blind and partially sighted people through an App to help them “see” and do tasks, but she is pulled into a race against time when she gets a terrifying call from a blind woman in the midst of an abduction. 

Change the story of cancer - 

Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital are looking for blind and partially sighted people to join a group they are running called the Cambridge Cancer Network, to involve current and past cancer patients and carers to share their thoughts and opinions.  

Get involved with RNIB's Voice of the Customer focus groups -

The RNIB is looking to hear from a broad range of people living in the UK who are over the age of 18 to join the Voice of the Customer focus groups. The discussions from past and present groups have already shaped RNIB’s services and strategic thinking, by bringing the true lived experience into decision making and service changes that have been made throughout the pandemic, which have helped to aid the ‘Please Give Me Space’ campaign.

The next Voice of the Customer focus groups will take place during March talking about the eyecare pathway, from diagnosis to eye hospital and clinic appointments, whether they be good or bad.

To find out more about these items and how you can get involved with RNIB Connect Voices do visit - https://www.rnib.org.uk/rnibconnect/connect-voices.

(Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)