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We support over 5000 people in Hampshire.

Our Outreach Team gave advice, visited and provided information to nearly 1,200  people in their own homes, Southampton Eye Clinic or our Bishopstoke Office where we also deal with over 5,000 telephone calls each year.

Open Sight's Resource Centre provides impartial advice on equipment for the sight impaired and despatched over 4,000 items in the past year and provided free Low Vision Equipment Assessments for 130 people in our resource low vision centre.

Our sight awareness training programmes were attended by 550 medical, social and other staff

We run 6 Resource Days showcasing equipment and offering advice around the County with an average 85 people attending each one

We publish and circulate over 5000 copies of our magazine Second Sight every two months including over 800 tapes and an audion version on our website.

  • An average of 600 people attend our local social clubs each month.
  • We organise Family Fun Day,Theatre Trips and Actvities for children and families.
  • We facilitate and offer Holidays and Gardening Days for sight impaired people.
  • We provided grants from our Grants Fund for those in need, especially for those needing special equipment to help them read and live independently.

What We Do Is Important Because:

  • Over 100 people in the UK start to lose their sight every day
  • One in Three People Over 75 suffer from age related sight loss.
  • 0ver 60% of sight impaired people live on half the average national income level
  • There are 300 children with sight loss in Hampshire
  • By 2026 25% of the population of Hampshire will be over 75
  • One in Three people over 75 years of age suffers from some form of sight loss


There are over 370,000 people currently registered with sight loss in the UK and many hundreds of thousands more who are not registered We support, advise and provide practical help to ANYONE with sight loss problems in Hampshire