Annual Review 2014/15

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We’re RNIB and we’re here for everyone affected by sight loss.Whether you’re losing your sight or you’re blind or partially sighted, our practical and emotional support can help you face the future with confidence.Our ambition is to make every day better for everyone affected by sight loss: by being there when you are losing your sight, supporting independent living, creating an inclusive society and preventing sight loss.

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Contents2 About RNIB3 Contents4 In 2014/15...6 From our Chair and Chief Executive8 Ourwork:Being there9 Gareth’s story10 Our work: Independence11 Tuesday’s story12 Our work: Inclusion13 Shadeen’s story14 Our work: Prevention15 Ray’s story16 What we set out to do… and what we achieved17 Help from sight loss advisers18 Living every day with confidence19 Accessing welfare benefits20 Getting out and about confidently21 Making use of technology22 Achieving full potential in education23 Supporting people into work24 Making information accessible25 Improving eye health care and understanding of eye conditions26 A brief look at our finances28 Our supporters30 Thank you33 How you can help34 Contact us

2millionpeople visited our website

2,800people

Our Eye Health Information Service supported

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Our blind and partially sighted

members increased to

13,500

of our Talking Books became downloadable via RNIB Overdrive, our new digital library

20,000

Our advice and support services responded to

customer enquiries

350,000

20millionIn 2014/15...

homes can listen to RNIB’s Insight Radio through Freeview

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5,000people volunteered with us

in unclaimed welfare benefit entitlements

£14.8millionWe identified

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From our Chair and Chief ExecutiveIn the next 15 minutes someone’s life will change forever. Someone will feel more alone than they’ve ever felt before. Someone’s future will feel bleak, even terrifying. In the next 15 minutes, someone will be told they are losing their sight. This year we’ve worked to ensure more eye departments in the UK have access to a qualified sight loss adviser. This is a huge job but one that is absolutely necessary, so people get the practical and emotional support they need to face the future without fear.

Everyone is different and will want a different level of independence – our job is to get the right mix of skills and tools to help someone make confident choices. We’ve worked to provide advice services to over 60,000 people this year and we’ve extended our confidence building services to support over 21,000 people. We also identified £14.8million in unclaimed benefits and provided over 1,500 people with peer support through our telephone-based Talk and Support groups.

We supported 7,000 people to use technology

This year, we provided advice services to over

60,000 people

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No one should needlessly lose their sight. This year we’ve worked to secure access to new treatments for vitreomacular traction and diabetic macular oedema. We’ve also supported nearly 3,000 people with in-depth information on eye conditions, treatments and living with sight loss through our Eye Health Information service. This helps people to understand their conditions and manage their own eye health.

Every day of this year we have worked to ensure newly diagnosed people are reached sooner, people are supported to live the independent lives they choose, society is a more inclusive place and no one needlessly loses their sight. Everything we’ve achieved in the past year has only been possible through the generosity and commitment of our supporters, and we thank you all.

Lesley-Anne Alexander CBE Chief Executive

Kevin Carey Chair

Getting out and about with confidence is essential. Throughout the year we have been in negotiation with Stagecoach, Go Ahead Group and Arriva for the implementation of our Bus Charter. First Bus and five other operators are already signed up. We launched a report called “Who put that there?” based on feedback from 500 blind and partially sighted campaign supporters to increase awareness of the challenges of the street environment.

Technology continues to change lives. We supported nearly 7,000 people of all ages through our UK digital inclusion services to develop confidence in using technology. We’ve now made over 20,000 of our Talking Books available for download via RNIB Overdrive, our new digital library, along with podcasts, Insight Radio content and our most popular monthly talking newspapers and magazines.

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Being told that you’re losing your sight can be devastating. We’re focused on making sure more people affected by sight loss are reached early. We want more eye clinics to have sight loss advisers – trained professionals who provide patients and their families with vital emotional and practical support at the point of diagnosis.

Our work: Being there

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Gareth’s storyAs a young man who had just started university, Gareth Davies took his future for granted. “I had no worries, no fears,” he recalls.

Being told he was losing his sight changed everything. “It felt like the end of the world,” says Gareth.

Fortunately, the hospital where Gareth received his diagnosis had a sight loss adviser. “You’re at your lowest ebb when you’ve just been diagnosed. The sight loss adviser was very compassionate, and gave me hope for the future. She put me in touch with RNIB and sorted out things like cane training and a guide dog.”

Gareth adapted to living with sight loss and worked hard to build a career in the social care sector, where he is now a senior manager. Despite his job and a busy home life as a father of two, he advocates for

other people with sight loss through his role as a patient representative on the Welsh Ophthalmologist Planned Care Board. “It’s something I’m really proud of doing.”

Looking back, Gareth is grateful to have met the sight loss adviser when he was first diagnosed.

“ I don’t know where I would be if it wasn’t for that first contact. The sight loss adviser made me aware that there is lots of help out there and opened the door to many positive things.”

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We work to ensure that blind and partially sighted people can make the most of their lives. This means they can access the support, services, products and technologies that enable a good quality of life, along with opportunities to develop the skills for confident living.

Our work: Independence

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Tuesday’s storyTuesday Berry grew up with a passion for film and the creative arts, despite being visually impaired from birth. She dreamt of going to university to study film, but was told repeatedly at school that it would be impossible with her sight loss.

“I was shy, and I doubted my abilities,” says Tuesday. “I didn’t even feel able to get the bus on my own or go anywhere unaccompanied.”

All this changed after Tuesday joined Haggeye, RNIB Scotland’s youth forum. As part of Haggeye, Tuesday began campaigning to make services and facilities more accessible. Her work took her to all over the UK, and Tuesday blossomed in confidence.

“I even travel to foreign countries independently now!” says Tuesday, who is in her third year at university studying film and media, and has already won several film awards.

“RNIB gave me the skills and confidence to go out and get to where I wanted to be. When I had a bit of bumpy start to university, their Education and Family service helped me get the support I needed,” says Tuesday.

“ I’ve come a long way, and I owe a huge part of that to RNIB.”

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We want society to include blind and partially sighted people as equal citizens and consumers, as barriers to using mainstream goods and services result in isolation and exclusion. We’re raising awareness within communities and society to secure changes in behaviour that result in improved access for blind and partially sighted people.

Our work: Inclusion

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Shadeen’s storyShadeen Rose was dismissed from her job as a paralegal after losing her sight. “It was hard for years after that. There was a stage where I didn’t even want to get out of bed,” she recalls.

The turning point for Shadeen came after she enrolled with RNIB College Loughborough, where she learned braille and how to use a computer with a screen reader. With her new qualifications, she started to feel confident again.

“The course was one of the best experiences of my life. I made some beautiful friends and it opened up my whole outlook on life. It also gave me the opportunity to do an eight-week work placement with the police force.”

Shadeen went on to do further work placements arranged by RNIB. She became a volunteer to help other people with sight loss, and eventually found a permanent job.

“ RNIB changed my life and gave me hope again. I get up in the morning and I have so much to look forward to.”

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We want fewer people to lose their sight. We work to raise awareness of eye health and campaign for improved access to eye care services and treatments. We support people to cope with sight loss by increasing their knowledge and understanding of their eye condition.

Our work: Prevention

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Ray’s storyDoctors initially failed to diagnose Ray Liggins’ eye condition, and by the time his macular degeneration was correctly identified, he had lost the sight in his left eye.

When Ray developed similar problems in his other eye, he was faced with the prospect of going completely blind.

Hope came when Ray learned of a sight-saving drug that could halt the deterioration in his sight, but his NHS trust in Warwickshire refused to fund it on grounds of cost. Ray had to use his life savings to get the drug privately.

He could not afford further treatment and feared he would be unable to continue caring for his wife Olive, who had suffered a stroke.

We helped Ray to put a campaign together and take the NHS trust to court. Ray won his case, and the trust agreed to provide the treatment not just for him, but all patients in Warwickshire.

The sight in Ray’s right eye recovered after several treatments, and he continues to care for Olive.

“ I can read,” says Ray. “My sight isn’t getting any worse, I can even drive!”

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What we set out to do... and what we achieved

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“ Knowing RNIB is there is so reassuring, like a comfort blanket. RNIB gives people the confidence to get out there and live their lives.” Peter Seaman

Help from sight loss advisersSight loss advisers ensure that people who are losing their sight don’t have to face this life-changing event alone. Sight loss advisers can take the time to explain a patient’s eye condition to them and discuss treatment and medication. They provide emotional support to patients and their families along with practical help, such as putting patients in touch with key services.

At present, only one in three hospital eye departments in the UK has a sight loss adviser and we’re working hard to change this. We’ve trained 35 new sight loss advisers and 169 eye clinic volunteers to provide support in even more hospitals.

Our impact

In 2014/15, RNIB sight loss advisers supported 17,446 people. An overwhelming majority of these people, 90 per cent, said they received all or most of the support they needed and 87 per cent said they felt more reassured after seeing a sight loss adviser.

people were supported by RNIB sight loss advisers

17,446

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Living every day with confidenceWe aim to provide people with sight loss with the support they need to improve their choices and enjoyment in daily living and to make the most of their sight. Among the services we offer are our confidence-building programmes, which are delivered in partnership with local and national organisations to ensure that participants have full knowledge about the broad range of support services available to them.

With rehabilitation services in many areas under significant strain, these programmes play a crucial role in providing essential information. As an added benefit, the programmes have trained peer facilitators who can share their experience of being blind or partially sighted and help participants discuss the emotional impact of sight loss.

Our impact

All participants who took part in our evaluation said they would recommend our confidence building programmes to other people with sight loss.

In 2014/15, our advice services supported 60,336 blind and partially sighted people, while 1,563 people took part in our telephone-based Talk and Support sessions, which are particular valuable for people who find it difficult to leave their homes.

people took part in our telephone-based Talk and Support sessions

1,563

Our advice services supported

60,336blind and partially sighted people

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Accessing welfare benefitsWe’ve continued our work to ensure blind and partially sighted people, their family and carers can maintain their independence by receiving the benefits they’re entitled to.

Three years ago, we became deeply concerned that the proposed change from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) failed to recognise that sight loss can be a serious disability and that people who can’t see face extensive and ongoing extra costs. We subsequently worked tirelessly alongside our blind and partially sighted campaigners to secure clear changes to the government’s assessment criteria and ensure people with sight loss would receive PIP.

Our impact

The number of people accessing our Welfare Advice and Legal Rights service in 2014/15 doubled to 12,392, and our expert advisers continued to support people to claim welfare benefits they were entitled to, identifying £14.8million of unclaimed income.

We’ve continued to campaign to maintain the current level of eligibility and entitlement for blind and partially sighted people, and our recent research has demonstrated the positive long-term impact of our work to persuade the government to change the PIP assessment criteria.

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Getting out and about confidentlyBlind and partially sighted people have asked us to focus on making public transport more accessible and street environments safer.

We’ve been doing this through several campaigns, such as persuading bus companies to sign up to our Bus Charter, which sets out a list of commitments to improve travel for people with sight loss. We’ve also run ‘Swap with Me’ events – where bus drivers have the opportunity to put themselves in the shoes of a passenger with sight loss.

As part of our campaign to make street environments safer, we launched a report called ‘Who put that there?’ which highlights the challenges of the street environment for blind and partially sighted people, such as the hazards caused by advertising boards, inaccessible crossings and more.

Our impact

First Bus, Go Ahead and Stagecoach have signed up to our Bus Charter, as have seven regional bus companies, all making a public commitment to take the needs of passengers with sight loss into account in their service delivery.

Our blind and partially sighted campaigners have used the resources we developed to challenge shared spaces, lack of crossing points, inaccessible crossings and pavement obstructions. As a result, a number of schemes across the country have been reversed, altered or implemented which has made the street environment more accessible.

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Making use of technologyWe know from our research that people with sight loss face significant barriers when it comes to using technology. Some people believe that their sight loss itself is a barrier, while others lack skills, cannot access training or are unaware of the benefits of being online. To overcome this, we’ve focused on giving people the skills, tools and confidence they need to make the most of technology to improve their independence.

We’ve transformed our product services to give our customers more choice and we’ve remained at the forefront of innovation by developing pioneering technology. In response to increasing requests from our readers, we’ve expanded our Talking Books service and launched a new digital download library called RNIB Overdrive.

Our impact

In 2014/15, we supported 6,912 people of all ages through our UK digital inclusion services to develop confidence in using technology.

Over 20,000 of our Talking Books became available for download via RNIB Overdrive, along with podcasts, RNIB Insight Radio content, and our most popular monthly talking newspapers and magazines. Readers can now download content directly onto their computers, smartphones and tablets, as well as manage their own bookshelf, wish list and returns.

of our Talking Books became available for download on RNIB Overdrive

20,000Over

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Achieving full potential in educationWe support children and young people, including those with complex needs, to reach their potential by providing care and education at our specialist education centres – RNIB Pears Specialist Learning Centre in Coventry, Sunshine House School in north west London and RNIB College Loughborough.

We’ve worked to influence the Children and Families Act to ensure specialist services for blind and partially sighted learners are protected, and we’ve also equipped educators so they can better support blind and partially sighted learners.

Through Load2Learn, a web-based service delivered by RNIB and Dyslexia Action, we offer free access to downloadable resources for schools and colleges to help thousands of students throughout the UK get access to textbooks in a format which is suitable to their needs.

Our impact

Ninety-four per cent of children and young people in our schools and college achieved their individual targets during the last academic year.

We successfully campaigned with parents and other organisations to protect provision of sensory support for children and young people. And 98 per cent of professionals who have accessed our resources say they’re better enabled to support blind and partially sighted learners.

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Supporting people into workGovernment figures show that only 45 per cent of blind and partially sighted people of working age are in employment. We’ve been working to change this by continuing to provide employment advice and support to people with sight loss. We’ve also continued working with employers to encourage them to employ more blind and partially sighted people.

During 2014, problems with the Access to Work scheme increased. Many blind and partially sighted people experienced severe delays with accessing grants and many were also provided with inappropriate equipment. We made representations to a Select Committee Enquiry and to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to make sure the voice of blind and partially sighted people was heard.

Our impact

In 2014/15, we helped 647 blind and partially sighted people to get or keep their job, and we provided a total of 5,034 people with employment advice and support. We also established a Young Ambassadors programme, so the people we’ve supported can go on to help others.

blind and partially sighted people to get or keep their job

647We helped

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Making information accessibleWe’ve maintained pressure on government services to ensure people with sight loss are not excluded as service delivery continues to move to digital channels. Our particular focus has been on ensuring people can access information they receive from health, employment and banking services. We’ve supported legal cases against the DWP for not providing information in accessible formats and we’ve worked with NHS England to develop an Accessible Information Standard which will be mandatory from June 2016.

To encourage businesses to make their products accessible, we’ve launched RNIB Approved – our new quality assurance mark that will help people with sight loss to identify products that are easy to use. Products which are granted RNIB Approved status go through a rigorous testing process by accessibility experts before being reviewed by a panel of blind and partially sighted people.

We’ve also continued to promote the need to make cash machines accessible.

Our impact

Our legal representation to the DWP led to a major internal review that has resulted in the DWP proposing to establish a special unit to deal with accessible information.

Seven major banks have made a public commitment to introduce talking ATMs and 42 per cent of all cash machines are now activated to talk.

New debit and saving cards launched by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are the first products to receive the RNIB Approved quality mark. The cards were developed in partnership with RNIB and are the first of their kind to be completely accessible to people with sight loss, making everyday banking easier.

of all UK cash machines are now activated to talk

Nearly half

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Improving eye health care and understanding of eye conditions

We’ve pushed on with our work to raise awareness of sight loss, and to campaign for better eye care services and access to sight saving treatments.

We’ve provided eye health information and advice by phone, face-to-face and via digital channels, and engaged health care commissioning and delivery bodies to ensure they implement effective plans for eye care that reflect their communities.

We’ve campaigned at local and national levels to make sure eye health is a public health and research priority across the UK and we’ve also been doing pioneering work with those at risk of avoidable sight loss through community engagement with specific target groups.

Our impact

We improved access to eye care services by engaging with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) to secure access to new treatments for vitreomacular traction and diabetic macular oedema.

We continued to challenge clinical commissioning groups that do not comply with their legal obligation to introduce new treatments within three months of NICE/SMC approval.

We also challenged the eight hospital trusts that did not have rapid referral schemes for wet AMD in place, and to date six have responded positively and adopted new arrangements.

By supporting 2,840 individuals with in-depth information on eye conditions, treatments and living with sight loss, our Eye Health Information service has helped people to understand their conditions and manage their own eye health.

individuals with in-depth information on eye conditions

2,840We supported

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– a three-to-one return on investment.

A brief look at our financesIn 2014/15...

£20.8 million

£65.8 million

to raise

For every £1 we receive, we spend 81p on supporting people with sight loss. The rest is used to raise further funds and on running costs.

We spent

The RNIB group of charities focused expenditure on the following areas of work:

Total expenditure £118.6m

Governance £1.4million

Being there £6.5million

Independence £80.5million

Costs to generate funds £20.8m

Inclusion £8.3millionPrevention £1million

£1

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These figures are taken from the full Trustees’ report and financial statement for the year ending 31 March 2015, as audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. If you would like a copy of the full report, available in print, audio, braille and by email, please contact our Helpline on 0303 123 9999 or email helpline@rnib.org.uk

Donations and legacies £64.6m

Other incoming resources £2.5m

Income from charitable activities £46.2m

Merchandising and sponsorship £0.5m

Investment income £0.6m

We raisedThe RNIB group of charities’ income came from the following sources:

This gave a total income of £114.5m and a planned operating deficit of £4.1m

The RNIB group of charities’ resources at 31 March 2015 consisted of the following:

Unrestricted funds £67m

Plus pension surplus £12.6m

Endowment funds £5.7m

Restricted funds £20.3m

This gives total net assets of £105.7m

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Our supportersThis year, our amazing supporters and volunteers helped us raise £65.8million. Not only did they generously donate their time and money, but they also helped to raise awareness of sight loss, such as through our ‘Wear dots...raise lots’ events which encourage school children to learn about sight loss and braille while taking part in fundraising.

We received an incredible £36million in gifts from 1,518 generous people who remembered us in their Will. One such supporter was Miss Margaret Howard, who left the residue of her estate to RNIB, resulting in a very special legacy of £1.27million.

One of our most successful fundraising campaigns was our Christmas appeal, which featured nine-year-old Maddie, who is gradually losing her sight but loves the accessible books she gets through RNIB Reading Services. Maddie’s story highlighted that only seven per cent of all books are available in formats that blind and partially sighted people can read. Our kind supporters were moved to give over £370,000.

This year we also held four Glow Neon Fun Runs, attracting 1,200 people who ran, dressed up or volunteered to help guide and cheer our runners on. Our family of volunteers has grown after we recruited and launched an additional 49 local volunteer fundraising groups.

We won a £5.8million grant from the Big Lottery Fund for Online Today, a UK-wide project to help people with sensory loss to develop skills that will enable them to use technology and the internet with confidence. We look forward to telling you about the successes of this two-year project in next year’s Annual review.

To all our supporters and volunteers – thank you for helping to make every day better for people with sight loss.

This year we also held four Glow Neon Fun Runs, attracting 1,200 people who ran, dressed up or volunteered to help guide and cheer our runners on

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Our supporters helped us raise

£65.8m

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Thank youWe’re honoured to have the support of our Patron Her Majesty The Queen. We’re indebted to our President Dame Gail Ronson DBE, and to our Vice-Presidents:

Sir John Beckwith CBE

The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP

Richard Brewster

Professor Ian Bruce CBE

Jeremy Bull

Dr Haruhisa Handa

Dr Euclid Herie

Lady Jarvis

Penny Lancaster-Stewart

Lord Low of Dalston CBE

Trevor Pears CMG

Sir Mike Rake

Dr Dermot Smurfit

Rod Stewart CBE

The Rt Hon Earl of Stockton

His Grace The Duke of Westminster KG, CB, CVO, OBE, TD, CD, DL

The Brackpool Family Foundation

Liz & Terry Bramall Charitable Trust

British Council, Youth in Action

BSkyB

Carmen Butler Charteris Charitable Trust

The Cayo Foundation

Chalcroft Trust

Mr and Mrs Oliver Christof

The Clore Duffield Foundation

Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust

Coopers Hill Trust

Creative Scotland

Norman Dawson Charitable Trust

Department of Health

Mr Richard Desmond

Dickinson Charitable Trust

Sarah and Lloyd Dorfman CBE

Eden Red UK Group Ltd

Mr Graham Edwards and Ms Georgie Black

European Regional Development Fund – INTERREG IVA

European Social Fund

Mr and Mrs Keith Freedman

Thank you to the many individuals, companies, trusts and public bodies that have supported us this year and made our work possible. We can’t possibly name you all but here’s a list of those who have contributed significantly to our cause:

29th May 1961 Charitable Trust

Adint Charitable Trust

AIG

Alcon

Allergan

Alliance Scotland

Awareness Fund

The BAND Trust

Barbour Paton Charitable Trust

Bayer

BBC Children in Need

Berkeley Homes (Capital) PLC

Big Lottery Fund

Blind Veterans

The Booker Prize Foundation

Boots Opticians Ltd

Bòrd na Gàidhlig

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B & P Glasser Charitable Trust

Evelyn and David Green

Guide Dogs and Blind Children UK

Roger de Haan Charitable Trust

The David and Claudia Harding Foundation

Charlie and Bianca Hare

Harebell Centenary Fund

Edith Lilian Harrison 2000 Foundation

Mr James Henderson

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs

Heritage Lottery Fund

Highland Trust

Ada Hillard Charitable Trust

Dorothy Howard Trust

International Foundation for Arts and Culture

Investec International Specialist Bank and Asset Manager

Isaac and Myrna Kaye

Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust

L’Occitane

The Lotus Foundation

Derek and Deborah Lovelock

Mrs Farhat Malik

The Material World Charitable Foundation

W T Mattock Charitable Trust

Florence Violet McCaffery Trust

Jane McDonnell

Ruth McIntosh

Melbreak Trust

Brian Mercer Charitable Trust

Mr & Mrs J T Morgan Foundation

Loppylugs & Barbara Morrison Charitable Trust

Dr and Mrs Samad Munshi

Myristica Trust

Next PLC

NHS Fife

Northwood Charitable Trust

Novartis

Iain and Martha Parham

Mr and Mrs Gary Pask

Peacock Charitable Trust

Graham and Diana Peacock

Pears Foundation

The Jack Petchey Foundation

P F Charitable Trust

Paul and Sara Phillips

Pom Trust

Mr and Mrs Paul Polman

Mr Stephen Prebble

Qualcomm Foundation

The Joseph and Lena Randall Charitable Trust

RBS

Relief in Sickness Fund

The Gerald Ronson Foundation

Rontec

Sandra Charitable Trust

Santander Foundation

R H Scholes Charitable Trust

Schroders PLC

Mr and Mrs Schwarzenbach

John Scott Trust

Scottish Government

Scottish Natural Heritage

ScottishPower Foundation

Mr Geoffrey Selby

Mr and Mrs Graeme Shankland

Shared Care Scotland

Shenmore Trust

Simmons and Simmons

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Simply Health

Miss Kathleen Beryl Sleigh Charitable Trust

Smith Charitable Trust

Dr and Mrs Dermot Smurfit

Standard Chartered

State Street

Lady Beryl Steinberg

The Steinberg Family Charitable Trust

Mr Alastair Storey

The Tabor Foundation

Mr Chris Thomas

Thornton Foundation

Constance Travis Charitable Trust

UPS

Welsh Assembly Government

Wales Council for Voluntary Action

The Garfield Weston Foundation

Brian Wilson Charitable Trust

Win Health

The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation

Youth Council Northern Ireland

Dr Allen Zimbler and Dr Caryn Solomon

We’d also like to say thank you to our volunteers for your tireless dedication – without your support we couldn’t have achieved what we have.Finally, a heartfelt thank you to all those who remembered RNIB in their Will. Their generosity will enable us to continue all of our vital work for people facing sight loss in future years.

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How you can helpEvery day 100 people start to lose their sight. We need your help to provide vital services for blind and partially sighted people. Do something today and make a difference.

A brighter future About a third of our work is supported by gifts in Wills so we are hugely grateful to those people who have supported us in this way. Every penny we are left is used wisely to provide a brighter future and help blind and partially sighted people live their lives with confidence. You don’t have to be wealthy to make a difference; legacies of all sizes are vital to our work. If you’d like to know how you can help in this way please call 0845 600 0313 or visit rnib.org.uk/legacy

Fundraise Without financial support from donations and legacies we simply couldn’t provide many of the products and services that help people find their lives again. There are many ways you can show your support, such as getting involved in ‘Wear dots...raise lots’, taking on a challenge or making a one-off donation. Visit rnib.org.uk/fundraise

Volunteer Without volunteers we couldn’t run our services. There are over 100 volunteering opportunities across the UK where you could make a real difference in your local community. Visit rnib.org.uk/volunteer

CampaignWithout active campaigners we’d never get changes made to health, social care, employment and benefits. Join our campaigns on issues that matter to blind and partially sighted people. Visit rnib.org.uk/campaign

Call today on 0303 123 9999 to find out more or send your details to RNIB, 105 Judd Street, London WC1H 9NE.

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