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Room Mate from ADi Access
Helen and Steve Holyer joined Tracy and Jo to chat about the Room Mate and to explain where the idea came from. You can hear a demo of the Room Mate too. To get in touch with the Room Mate team you can visit adiaccess.co.uk or email [email protected] Access had one 10,000 loan from a start-up finance company and Helen received a £4,000 grant during the School for Social Entrepreneurs programme that I completed in 2015. We operate on the Social Enterprise model and do not take a salary for ourselves, we will ultimately, in the not foreseeable future, pay ourselves back the substantial savings that although we have personally invested in the development, manufacture and marketing of RoomMate. All of our income from the sales of RoomMate goes right back into the business so that we can continue to make improvements and manufacture more units. Most SME's fail within the first 2 years of trading, but here we are almost 3 years in and getting more well-known all the time.
A discussion on Blind Parenting.
Here is round table discussion Jo and Michael held a while back with a few visually impaired parents.
We talk to Gavin From Neatebox
Gavin Neate joined Jo and Tracy to give an update on 2 of the Neatebox projects. It was a flying visit this time as Gavin was out and about but his obvious enthusiasm shines through and compensates for any lack of quality due to connectivity. If you'd like to find out more, visit neatebox.com or you can find Gavin on the VI Talk group.
Open Day Presentation 2. Angela Smith the Chief Executive from Friends of Moorfields Eye Hospital
Angela Smith is the Chief Exec of Friends of Moorfields and gave an informative presentation regarding the services that they can offer and the support that they give to the hospital and it's patients. To contact Angela you can email [email protected]
Open Day Presentation 1 from Laura Hughes on services for young people
Laura Hughes from Moorvision kicked off our Open Day with a informative and interactive presentation on services for young people. She also gave us some fascinating statistics relating to visual impairment. If you live in the Devon area and would like to find out more about the services Moorvision can offer to families, check out their web site www.moorvision.org
Jo speaks to the multitalented Jack Scrimshaw
The first in a new series. Jo Parson's Kitchen.
Jo is a visually impaired chef and is going to be cooking for us every 4 to 6 weeks. Jo is also opening a cookery school in her own home to teach blind and partially sighted people to cook. Building their confidence but also making it an enjoyable experience. You can email Jo at [email protected] The Photo on this recording is of the food the Jo cooked. Risotto with Salmon and Bread and butter pudding
A guest blog. One perspective on how to prepare your home for a visually impaired family member.
information about our open day and AGM taking place on 18 March
since her interview Marcia has gone into a recording studio and here are a couple of tracks
As part of our eye conditions series we speak to Ryan about glaucoma.
#VI Talk discussion topic - has anyone been in a situation where ignorant people leave obsticles on staircases or on escalators?
Jennifer joins Ian to talk about her experience of finding work and moving away from home in the process.
As part of our eye conditions series Dan joins us to talk about Retinitis Pigmentosa
Ed joins us to talk about Bristol Braille Technology
#CoffeeBreak Jo chats to Marcia who sings live for us
Meet the team. Intros from Trustees and volunteers
Jo is here with an update
As part of our series on eye conditions, Natalie, Marcia and Jordan join us to talk about sticklers syndrome
Ian's Blog. Ian has been listening to Theresa Mays first speech as prime minister and gives his thoughts.
Ian's Blog. Saliha writes her second guest post on social inclusion in education
Ian's Blog. Part 2 on the Paralympics
#VI Talk what are your opinions of iOS 10 and iPhone 7/7+
As part of our eye condition series Jo and Tracy spoke to Barrie about Uveitis.
As we know there are many degrees of sight loss and Barrie's story highlights the need for immediate action if anything changes with your eyes or sight. Barrie also tells us that sometimes the treatment can be extremely difficult to cope with. #eyeconditionseries #sightloss
Ian's Blog. the Paralympics
Ian's Blog. Saliha one of our trustees has written a guest blog.
Ian's Blog. Utopia
Ian's Blog
Darren and Buffy Hartland join Jo and Ian to talk about their experience with P & O cruises
#C2SV Torch Trust
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#C2SV Vision Aid Technologies.
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Ian's Blog. EU no - where do we go? Feel free to give your thoughts.
#c2sv VICTA.mp3
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#C2SV Seable Holidays.
#C2SV #C2SV Jo spoke to Damiano from Seable holidays #accessibleholidays
#C2SV Computer Room Services.
#C2SV #C2SV Steve tells Jo about products and services. #accessibility #technology
#C2SV Sight and Sound technologies.
#C2SV #C2SVApologies for the poor quality of this recording at times. Glenn's connection kept dropping. So in case you're struggling to hear all that Glenn has to offer, hear are some of the details. Take home Jaws user licence. You have to go to the Sight and sound stand at Sight Village and your employer must have a licence for you to use Jaws at work. If this is the case you can pick up a take home licence for £99 or an upgrade to the most recent version for £75. ABI C have the I Pal Ace which is a text to speech and very accurate. £1695 Index V5 embosser which has wifi capabilities and you can send documents from your smart phone. Zoom text fusion £595 is a fusion of Window eyes and Zoomtext. You can contact Sight and sound in the following ways Www.sightandsound.co.uk Download their smart phone app called whatat
#C2SV British Blind Sport.
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#C2SV Optima Low vision.
#C2SV #C2SV Jo speaks to Nicholas Collins from Optima. #lowvision #eyehealth #magnifiers
Ian's Blog. We can talk too!
Tracy speaks to Mark about the bierley maggie magnifier.
Www.bierley.com #magnifiers #visualimpairment
#C2SV Vocaleyes.
#C2SV #C2SV Jo speaks to Toby from Vocaleyes about audio description. #audiodescription #accessibility #accessibletheatre
#C2SV Calibre audio library.
#C2SV #C2SVJo speaks to Nicole from Calibre audio library. #books #audiobooks #accessibility #reading
#C2SV clear vision Project.
As part of our countdown to Sight Village Birmingham, Jo spoke to Alex fromt The Clear Vision Project. #books #accessiblebooks #reading #clearvisionproject #C2SV #C2SV
Jo chats with Craig a guest at the Cliffden hotel about his stay and the hotel in general. If you like what you hear, you can contact the hotel direct on 01626770052 you can also join the friends of Cliffden hotel Facebook group.
#visionhotels #accessibleholidays
#C2SV New College Worcester.
Jo speaks to Lorna Phillips from New College Worcester. Www.ncw.co.uk #C2SV #C2SV #education #accessibility #sightvillage
A short update from Jo
#C2SV vision Hotels.
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