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Meet Up & Catch Up Dates for 2024
Our Meet Up & Catch Up events have been a huge success and provide a wonderful opportunity for the local community to get together over a cuppa and have a chat, helping combat loneliness and isolation. During 2024 we are hosting a number of Meet Up and Catch Up...
Harley joins Matilda, Christian & Amy on our online Winter Appeal!
Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey's online Winter Appeal launched at the beginning of December with the gorgeous smiling faces of Amy and Christian, two of the many young children supported by the charity, and now the lovely Matilda joins them. Please click here to...
United we stand!
Life costs more if you're disabled. Today, Wednesday 15th November, we stand united with over 80 charities calling on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt MP to take urgent action in his Autumn Statement to support people who are Deaf, blind, hard of hearing or partially...
New Signpost out now!
The new winter edition of Signpost 2023/24 is out now and full of news and stories from all corners of the charity. From supporting a Para Olympic Dressage horse rider, attending BSL Fest in Guilford to skiing at the Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead, we have had a busy...
Breaking Down Barriers Workshops 2025
Breaking Down Barriers Workshop is a one day course for professionals in Surrey to gain an overview, understanding and appreciation of inclusion, accessibility and independence for and with people who are Deaf, hard of hearing, blind, partially sighted, deafblind....
Dorking & Bookham TN join forces to bring weekly news!
Now Dorking & Bookham (TNs) have joined forces to give people with a vision impairment a better service. The pandemic had reduced the recordings from weekly to once a fortnight, but with the two TNs working together, a free weekly service has been resumed. Each TN...
Nigel Limb Blind Bloke Racing
Record-breaking, thrill-seeking and vision impaired, Nigel Limb (aka Blind Bloke Racing) is the current holder of the British record for a strip run on a motorbike hitting speeds of 83 mph in 8.74 seconds on an Electric TT Zero bike with a vision impairment. He is...
Additional Needs Service Showcase!
Come and meet Katie (pictured), our lovely Volunteer & Community Engagement Manager, at Additional Needs Service Showcase. When: Wednesday 19th July 2023, 11am to 3pm Where: High Cross Church, 1 Knoll Road, Camberley, GU15 3SY Why: Find out about the support and...
Bid in our on-line auction!
Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey are holding an on-line auction to raise £5,000 to fund an Eye Clinic Liaison Officer in Surrey Hospitals to ensure no one goes through the experience of sight loss alone. All eleven prizes were generously donated to us, some of...
Amazon Echo & Alexa master class!
Join us at our next 'Let's Talk Tech' on the subject of Amazon Echo & Alexa. When: Wednesday, 28 June, 2.00pm - 3.30pm Why: Find out how to use, and get the most of out of your Amazon Echo and Alexa, if you have a vision impairment. Where: Zoom (link will be...
Signpost Spring/Summer out now!
The new edition of Signpost Spring/Summer 2023 is out now and is packed with interesting stories about the people we help and support, from a GB Paralympic Cyclist, to a Ukrainian refugee. On the front cover of this issue is a stunning photograph of The Duchess of...
Coronation awards joy!
Lee Roake, aged 17 from Chertsey, is one of 500 outstanding volunteers to be chosen as one of the nation’s Coronation Champions by Their Majesties, The King and The Queen Consort, for the volunteer work he does for Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey. The Coronation...