Hertfordshire Society for the Blind helps local people cope with losing their sight. About 100 every day lose their eye sight and there are about 35,000 people in Hertfordshire with eye conditions, or who are blind or partially sighted. 50% of blindness is preventable if diagnosed early enough.

 

Hertfordshire Society for the Blind provides a wide range of services to help visually impaired people cope with their sight loss and regain their independence. We help improve the lives of visually impaired people by supporting them with everything from coping with everyday tasks like buying groceries to providing emotional support.

 

Maria Surgenor, Chief Executive Officer of Hertfordshire Society for the Blind said: “On behalf of everyone who is visually impaired in Hertfordshire we would like to express our thanks to all our supporters who give their time and money to support us. People across Hertfordshire last year raised over £30,000 to help local people who have lost their sight. Supporters have organised a wide range of fundraising activities including quizes, Barn Dance, sale of HSB merchandise and coffee mornings. We need to raise significantly more to offer additional services, but local support means Hertfordshire Society for the Blind can continue to help people maintain their independence. We try to provide all the services that local people ask us to, but there is never enough money for everything, we do the best that we can with the money that we have.  Likewise, we know that there are still local people who do not know that we exist and we have very little money to advertise.  We are really hopeful that this campaign will help us with this. Many of our service users, families and carers find the information, support and services offered by the Society invaluable, without it they would still be struggling every day - the money raised for Hertfordshire Society for the Blind makes a real difference to their lives.  I can’t wait to see if this awareness campaign makes a difference and encourages more people to help with a small donation, or with their time."

 

For further information, please contact Hertfordshire Society for the Blind on 01707 324680 or at http://www.hertsblind.com/volunteer-enquiry.asp or e-mail office@hertsblind.com.

 

Hertfordshire Society for the Blind is the only local charity providing support and services to blind or partially sighted people, their families and carers in Hertfordshire and provides a wide range of services to 5500 local people who are visually impaired on an annual basis.

Services include:

Hertfordshire Society for the Blind needs over £130,000 every year to provide these services to local people here in Hertfordshire. If you can help us - please do!