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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…

A big thank you for the very generous grant from the Freemasons’ Grand Charity. Thanks to a very generous grant from the Freemasons’ Grand Charity, British Wireless for the Blind Fund will now be able to replace the former version of its text to speech wireless internet audio player, being used by our blind and…

Presenter and BWBF patron Sue Cook has presented one of our radios to an 88-year-old at Churchill’s former home in Kent. Sue Cook, one of BWBF’s patrons, presented Enid Ferguson, of Westerham, with a new Concerto 2 set this week. With the sun streaming into Winston Churchill’s former study at Chartwell, his home in Kent,…

Work is underway on a research project which will help BWBF reach hundreds more visually impaired people. Earlier this year we reported how a generous grant from the ED Charitable Trust would allow British Wireless to reach even more blind and partially sighted people in need. The funding was to launch our Reaching Out project,…

A father-of-two who was robbed of an army career after losing his sight has thanked BWBF for giving him an ‘invaluable lifeline’. Dave Cole followed his father, uncle and brother into the armed forces and saw a bright future ahead. That was until a random flare robbed him of his sight, an army career and…