Sight Loss Councils Scotland Listening Month: Have your say!
What matters most to you as a person with a visual impairment living in Scotland? This October, Sight Loss Councils Scotland are asking people with lived experience of visual impairment to share what matters to them. We want to hear about the things that affect your everyday life. From transport and public spaces to healthcare, information, technology, culture and local services.
Listening Month is our opportunity to talk directly to the community and gather their voice to influence how we shape our projects and have data to showcase the issues people with a visual impairment in Scotland face.
Join a Listening Month event
We will be hosting in-person events across Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dumfries & Galloway and online for those in areas where we are not hosting an online event the details are listed below.
- Monday 12 October, 10am-3pm: Glasgow at Civic House, Civic House, 26 Civic St, Glasgow G4 9RH
- Tuesday 13 October, 10am-4:30pm: Edinburgh at Sight Scotland Veterans, 2a Robertson Avenue, Edinburgh, EH11 1PZ
- Tuesday 13 October, 10am-3pm: D&G at Midsteeple Quarter, The Green Room, The Standard, 139 High Street, Dumfries, DG1 2QT
- Wednesday 21 October, 6:30pm-9pm: Online event (please email Callum.Lancashire@sightscotland.org.uk for details).
If you are unable to attend any of our events you can still complete our survey below and help shape the priorities of Sight Loss Councils Scotland.
Complete our survey
The survey takes approximately 13 minutes to complete. Your feedback will help Sight Loss Councils Scotland understand the priorities of blind and partially sighted people across Scotland and inform our future engagement, campaigning and influencing work.
Your voice matters, and every response helps us build a clearer picture of what needs to change.
Some questions in this survey ask about your visual impairment and are optional. By choosing to answer these questions, you consent to Sight Scotland in our project partners TPT and Visibility Scotland using this information for the purposes outlined above. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy.
Thank you for visiting Scotland’s Sight Loss Council (SLC). Our new SLC offers an exciting and fresh opportunity to have the voices of blind and partially sighted people heard across Scotland. We are delighted to welcome you and excited for this new venture.
Sight Loss Councils, delivered in Scotland by Sight Scotland, Sight Scotland Veterans and Visibility Scotland and funded by Thomas Pocklington Trust, are regional groups led by blind and partially sighted volunteers. Together, we use our lived experience to tackle the things that really matter to blind and partially sighted people, every day.
This is the first Sight Loss Council to be developed in Scotland currently looking to recruit across the central belt and later moving down to Dumfries and Galloway with our final goal to be city and town specific across Scotland.
This means that blind and partially sighted people will have representation across the whole country. Together, we can raise awareness of the daily challenges we face and work together in partnership to influence change.
Sight Loss Councils are so important, as we want people to talk, share their experiences, share the things they like, their struggles and hopefully collectively we can make a real change for the better. Everybody has the right to be treated the same whether that is going to work, the shops, appointments, football, rugby or concerts; people with a vision impairment shouldn’t be looked at as a problem, inclusivity should be a necessity.
Join Sight Loss Council Scotland
Sight Loss Council Scotland is recruiting new members who live across the Central Belt currently.
If you want to make a real difference in your local area on the issues that affect blind and partially sighted people, joining our Sight Loss Council could be the perfect volunteering opportunity for you.
You will work with policy makers and local service providers to improve access for blind and partially sighted people in your local community. It is also a great opportunity to come together with other blind and partially sighted people in your area.
This is your chance to develop your skills and influence positive change.
Join a Sight Loss Council
Training and development
It’s really important to us that you get as much as possible out of volunteering. You’ll receive relevant training and the opportunity to learn and/or enhance your skills. Whether you’re interested in public speaking or honing your social media skills, there’s something for everyone to get involved in.
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