Connect Voices Round up 30 March 2022

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

Opportunities highlighted this week included:

Join the RNIB Voice of the Customer focus groups -

The RNIB is looking for a broad range of blind and partially sighted people from across the UK to take part in a series of the RNIB online Voice of the Customer focus groups, discussing the issues that matter most to blind and partially sighted people. 

The next round of the Focus Groups will run from April to June 2022 and will be focusing  on your experiences of public transport.

 and navigation. 

An opportunity for people living in Northern Ireland to help with a new training module  for Health and Social Care professionals - 

 If you have sight loss and additional complex needs we would like your support as RNIB Northern Ireland  are currently developing a training module aimed at health and social care professionals titled ‘Improving access to healthcare settings for people with complex needs and sight loss'. The two modules will cover Inclusive Communication and Inclusive Environments. 

Help Holly with her survey about independence and sight loss -  

Earlier in the year we shared an opportunity to help Holly, a Lecturer in Physiotherapy at the University of Huddersfield develop a survey for her research. Holly has been in touch again to thank those of you who stepped forward to help her and she’d like to invite blind and partially sighted people to complete her research survey which is now live.

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)