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Make a Difference

My Sight Nottinghamshire promotes greater independence for visually impaired people of all ages throughout Nottinghamshire by providing support, advice, information, and rehabilitative activities. At My Sight Nottinghamshire we pride ourselves on proactively involving our service users in developing services, enabling them to realise their full potential. Click here to scroll down to a link to SUMIT our service user involvment team.

Get Fundraising

We rely on public support to keep our services going, and to help establish new ones. Aside from taking part in one of our sponsored events, there are numerous other ways in which you can help Whether you are an individual, company, school, or charitable trust, your support makes a huge difference to the thousands of visually impaired children and adults that use our services. Click here to go straight to Fundraising

Or You Can Give Your Time

My Sight Nottinghamshire has over 150 volunteers who work in a wide range of roles within the charity. By volunteering at My Sight Nottinghamshire you can assist local visually impaired people to realise their true potential. There are a wide range of volunteering roles available from home visiting to teaching computer skills, from ten pin bowling to street collections. Whether you have a number of days or just a couple of hours available, you can make a valuable contribution to the lives of visually impaired people. Click here to go straight to Volunteering

We're There for You

Whoever you are and in whatever capacity you can help, you can make a difference to the lives of others! Our dedicated Fundraising team are always on hand if you need any help or information. Please feel free to drop them a line!

We Rely on Your Support

Please click on one of the following links for further information as to how you can support us!

Terms & conditions

Shop terms and conditions

This section details the terms and conditions under which you are buying products and services from us. Please read them carefully. They will help you to get the best from us and to know what to do, if for any reason you are unhappy with any aspect of our service. From the initial date you order online from us, we expect that you have read and accepted My Sight Nottinghamshire's terms and conditions and you are agreeing to purchase our products and / or services subject to these terms and conditions. Your order to us is an offer to purchase a service and / or product and when we receive the payment for the product we accept your offer.

Cancellation / Returns Policy

If at any time you wish to cancel a purchase or order with us, please contact us as soon as possible and we will endeavour to put things right.

Trips / Events and Social Activities

We will happily offer a full refund for trips and services booked on-line or in person, providing we receive at least 7 days notice before commencement of the trip / service. If, for whatever reason, you need to cancel your place within 7 days of the event commencing we will be unable to offer a refund. There may be some exceptions to this policy, please refer to the specific terms and conditions that you will be issued with at time of booking. If you have any queries regarding this, please do not hesitate to contact us info@nrsb.org.uk
Equipment, aids and support centre products

If an item you purchase from us is faulty, we will repair or replace the item or offer you a full refund. We give 12 months' guarantee on all our products that they are as described, are free from faults and fit for their purpose. This starts when we dispatch the items to you. Some items are guaranteed for longer and this is indicated in the full description of the product. This guarantee does not apply to:

Where the product instructions are not followed, or where the products have been altered or repaired without our permission, or where you have given us incorrect or misleading information on their use

Returns exceptions

Statutory rights

None of our terms and conditions affect your statutory rights and if any part of these terms and conditions is not valid or cannot be enforced in whole or in part this will not affect any other part of these terms and conditions. These terms and conditions are governed by the law of England and Wales and both parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Complaints and feedback

If you wish to make a complaint or provide feedback or get further information or clarification about these terms and conditions, please contact us on 0115 9706806

Data protection

When you supply any personal information to My Sight Nottinghamshire, we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information fairly - we must explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any information you provide to My Sight Nottinghamshire will only be used by My Sight Nottinghamshire. It will never be supplied to any other company without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged by law to disclose it. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 We do not hold financial details of any of our customers or service users on file.

Delivery

We will make every effort to dispatch your order within 2 to 3 working days of receipt, subject to stock being available. If we have to order equipment in for we will let you know expected delivery date on receipt of your order. Contact the support centre on 0115 9706806 (option1) if you need your order delivered faster. If you do make a special delivery arrangement, you may need to pay a delivery charge. Most of our products can be sent by freepost under the 'Articles for the Blind' scheme. However, the Articles for the Blind scheme offers no guarantees of delivery or insurance for valuable items. We do, therefore, have to make delivery charges for some high value products which need to be sent by a special delivery method. Where a product incurs a delivery charge this is highlighted in the product details and will be added to your order at checkout.

Privacy policy

The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.

Personal Information

From time to time, you may be asked to submit personal information about yourself (eg name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable My Sight Nottinghamshire to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. We will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current internet best practice.

Information on Visitors

During the course of any visit to My Sight Nottinghamshire, the pages you see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit. Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors.

Data Protection

When you supply any personal information to My Sight Nottinghamshire, we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information fairly - we must explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any information you provide to My Sight Nottinghamshire will only be used by My Sight Nottinghamshire . It will never be supplied to any other company without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged by law to disclose it. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Accessibility

My Sight Nottinghamshire's website is designed to be as accessible as possible to all our visitors. The information on this page is intended to help you use both the website accessibility tools and the settings on your own web browser to make visiting our site as easy and enjoyable as possible.

If you experience problems accessing any part of this website or you would like to offer us feedback and suggestions on improving accessibility then please don't hesitate to email the website team.

Changing the text size

Viewing the website in Low Graphics layout
Printing in a larger text size
Change text size

Using the website to change text size
You can change the text size by using the text bigger and smaller buttons provided on each page of the website.

Using your browser to change text size
To increase or decrease the text size using your browser, use the appropriate option in your browser or apply user style sheets.

Browser options:

Internet Explorer go to View > Text Size > Larger
Mozilla Firefox go to View > Text Size > Increase
Windows shortcut: Press the Ctrl and + keys together
Macintosh shortcut: Press the Command and + keys together
Netscape go to View > Text Size > Increase
Windows shortcut: Press the Ctrl and + keys together
Macintosh shortcut: Press the Command and + keys together
Opera go to View > Zoom >%
Windows shortcut: Press the Ctrl and either + or 0 keys together
Macintosh shortcut: Press the Command and + keys together
Safari go to View > Make text bigger
Macintosh shortcut: Press the Command and + keys together

View website in low graphics view

The low graphics version of the website removes all background images and displays the text in a single column. Content images will still be displayed.

To view the website this way just click on the Low Graphics link provided on every page. To return to the Full Graphics version of the site use the Full Graphics link.

If you use Mozilla Firefox or Opera as your browser, you can view the site in a Low Graphics layout by changing the page style in your browser.

Mozilla Firefox: go to View > Page Style > No style
Opera: go to View > Style > User Mode

MySight Links

Link to Royal National Institute of Blind People: http://www.rnib.org.uk

Link to National Association of Local Societies: http://www.nalsvi.cswebsites.org

Link to Action for Blind People: http://www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk

Link to The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association: http://www.guidedogs.org.uk

Link to BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Touch’ programme of news, views and information for blind and partially sighted people: http://www.bbc.co.uk

Link to the National Federation of the Blind: http://www.nfb.org

Link to Nottingham City Council’s Team For Visual Impairment: http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Link to Nottinghamshire County Council’s Services for People with a Visual Impairment:http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk

Link to Macular Disease Society: http://www.maculardisease.org

Link to National Association of Local Societies for Visually Impaired People: http://www.nalsvi.cswebsites.org

Link to British Wireless for the Blind: http://www.blind.org.uk

Link to Gujarati Talking Newspaper: http://www.gujaratitalkingpaper.org.uk/

Contact My Sight Nottinghamshire

Contact detail

My Sight Nottinghamshire:

Ortzen Street
Radford
Nottingham
NG7 4BN

0115 9706 806

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Blog

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Gallery

Welcome to our Gallery. We hold a great number of events and provide a large number of services – all of them generating images.

We like to keep the gallery current so pop back from time to time to see what is new!

Events

Our latest events are below

Downloads

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Services

Independence

My Sight Nottinghamshire is a local charity which promotes greater independence for visually impaired people of all ages throughout the county by providing practical support, advice, information, training and adapted leisure activities.

Live life to the full

The charity is at the forefront of the local voluntary sector, providing services that empower visually impaired people to live more independently and achieve their true potential within their own community.

About Us

My Sight Nottinghamshire, formerly Nottinghamshire Royal Society for the Blind (NRSB), is the only charity dedicated exclusively to improving the lives of people living with sight loss in Nottinghamshire. We provide support services, leisure opportunities,  information and advice to thousands of local visually impaired people and their families.

 

No one should face sight loss alone

We believe that no one should have to face sight loss alone and unsupported and that is why we are determined to work towards a world in which blind and partially sighted people of all ages have access to the same opportunities as everyone else. We work with individuals to ensure they achieve their own unique goals and enjoy a full and independent life beyond sight loss.

 

Local issues

We also campaign on a range of local issues affecting visually impaired people and promote awareness of eye health within the wider community because we want to make sure that no one has to experience avoidable sight loss.

 

We need your help

We need your help to support Nottinghamshire’s blind and partially sighted people so to find out more about what you can do to improve the quality of life for someone living with sight loss in your local community click here – link to fundraising/volunteering pages.

Welcome to My Sight Nottinghamshire

Seeing Beyond Sight Loss

My Sight Nottinghamshire is the new working name for Nottinghamshire Royal Society for the Blind (NRSB). We promote greater independence for visually impaired people of all ages from providing support, advice, information to adapted leisure activities.

As a local charity we rely heavily on donations to ensure the continuation of our essential services. All money raised stays within Nottinghamshire, to help visually impaired children and adults to realise their true potential.