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BWBF volunteers are to feature in a short film being put together by students as part of Volunteers’ Week.  BWBF volunteers and staff are to feature in a film being launched as part of a national initiative. Two students from Mid Kent College popped into our head office in Maidstone last week to interview our…

Volunteer ambassador sought to promote BWBF’s work around Kent. BWBF has launched a search for a volunteer ambassador to promote its work supporting visually impaired people. To mark Volunteer Recognition Day on Wednesday (April 20), we have started looking for someone to be the ‘face’ of the charity. BWBF is already supported by a fantastic group of…

A generous grant will provide 17 of our Concerto 2 sets to blind and partially sighted people living in the west of Scotland. Visually impaired people in West Scotland will benefit from specially adapted audio equipment thanks to a generous grant. The Kells Trust has donated £3,000 to BWBF. Often, people with sight loss live…

Three grants from different organisations will help us get more radios to blind and partially sighted people in central England. British Wireless for the Blind Fund has recently been given some funding to provide radios in the central part of the country. Sir George Martin Trust has donated £1,000 which will pay for new equipment…

Hundreds more visually impaired people will benefit thanks to a grant from the ED Charitable Trust. Many people with sight loss live alone and are often unable to read newspapers or watch the television, so a radio becomes their lifeline to the outside world. However the costs of adapted equipment can be too great for…

Shoppers in Sefton have the chance to support the community’s visually impaired people after BWBF was chosen by Waitrose as one of its charities for March. Waitrose has chosen British Wireless for the Blind Fund as one of the charities it will support in March. The company’s branch in Formby, Sefton, has picked BWBF for…

Three visually impaired people living in the West Country will be given specially adapted radios thanks to a local trust. St Austell Brewery Charitable Trust has donated £540 to British Wireless for the Blind Fund (BWBF). The charity provides audio equipment to blind and partially sighted people, who can often become lonely and isolated as…

A blind DJ and his partially sighted mum have been given specially adapted radios. Paul and Barbara Johnson, from Swansea, have each received a Sonata plus+ from British Wireless for the Blind Fund. The sets were given out thanks to the grant we received from the Freemasons’ Grand Charity. The radios have a text to…