Blind Veterans UK: Recent Episodes
Blind Veterans UK
We're Blind Veterans UK, formerly St Dunstan's, and we believe that no one who's served our country should battle blindness alone.
That's why we're here to help with a lifetime's practical and emotional support, regardless of when people served or how they lost their sight. We get our members back on their feet, recovering their independence and discovering a life beyond sight loss.
To find out more about how we how we help, visit http://www.blindveterans.org.uk
In 2010, blind veteran Jamie travelled to the top of the world to take part in the North Pole Marathon. While there, he had an unexpected encounter with Sir David Attenborough, who was in the Arctic filming Frozen Planet.
Sitting opposite each other in a tent on the ice, Jamie interviewed Sir David for our magazine, Review.
In this archive recording, Sir David talks about filming in the polar regions, the making of Frozen Planet, and his personal connection to Blind Veterans UK, formerly St Dunstan’s.
As Sir David celebrates his 100th birthday, we’re sharing this remarkable recording from the top of the world.
Listen to Jamie’s interview with Sir David Attenborough at the North Pole.
On 22 May 2011, British forces withdrew from Iraq for the last time, marking the end of Operation Telic. To mark the 15th anniversary, we spoke to Ben, a blind veteran of the 3rd Battalion Rifles.
Five days before the end of his second tour, Ben’s patrol was hit by an IED near Basra. He was 26. The injuries he sustained were catastrophic. In this episode, he talks about what happened that day, the long road to recovery, and how Blind Veterans UK helped him rebuild his life.
If you, or someone you know, served in the Armed Forces and is now struggling with sight loss, get in touch with Blind Veterans UK by visiting blindveterans.org.uk/apply
In this special Remembrance 2025 podcast, two generations of veterans - Michael, a 101-year-old Second World War veteran, and Wayne, a former Royal Armoured Corps soldier - share a moving conversation about service, sacrifice, and sight loss.
The wartime heroes we support today share their powerful stories of VE Day, 80 years on.
As we mark the 10th anniversary of the end of Operation Herrick, or British operations in Afghanistan, on 12 December 2014, we speak to former frontline soldier, Rob, who was just 23 when he lost his sight in action.
In this special Remembrance 2024 podcast, four blind veterans supported by our charity, share their experiences of service and what Remembrance means to them.
From World War II to the Falklands, join us in honouring their service.
Learn more about our work at www.blindveterans.org.uk
As Second World War veteran Matt Mackinnon-Pattison turns 100 years old, he looks back on the best and worst of his wartime experiences in Italy when he was just 18.
In this three-part Remembrance Special, WWII veteran, Alec Penstone, shares his fascinating stories from the Second World War with our Military Lead, Tim Eckersley.
In this three-part Remembrance Special, WWII veteran, Alec Penstone, shares his fascinating stories from the Second World War with our Military Lead, Tim Eckersley.
In this three-part Remembrance Special, WWII veteran, Alec Penstone, shares his fascinating stories from the Second World War with our Military Lead, Tim Eckersley.
In this podcast, you'll hear three extracts from John's war-time memoirs, which he wrote during the pandemic at the age of 101.
Unseen Stories is the podcast about different kinds of military experiences, of loss of sight and adjustment to life and new experiences as a blind person, and of being part of Blind Veterans UK.
The episodes in Unseen Stories features interviews and clips from our archives, as well as conversations with our current veterans.
Blind Veterans UK was founded in 1915 as the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee, but we were known for most of our history as St Dunstan’s. We changed name to Blind Veterans UK in 2012 to better explain who we are and what we do.
86-year-old blind R.A.F. veteran from Brighton, Richard Holmes, has provided a piece of music to be played alongside the 2020 Virtual Exhibition Fundraiser.
Unseen Stories is the podcast about different kinds of military experiences, of loss of sight and adjustment to life and new experiences as a blind person, and of being part of Blind Veterans UK.
The episodes in Unseen Stories features interviews and clips from our archives, as well as conversations with our current veterans.
Blind Veterans UK was founded in 1915 as the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee, but we were known for most of our history as St Dunstan’s. We changed name to Blind Veterans UK in 2012 to better explain who we are and what we do.
Unseen Stories is the podcast about different kinds of military experiences, of loss of sight and adjustment to life and new experiences as a blind person, and of being part of Blind Veterans UK.
The episodes in Unseen Stories features interviews and clips from our archives, as well as conversations with our current veterans.
Blind Veterans UK was founded in 1915 as the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee, but we were known for most of our history as St Dunstan’s. We changed name to Blind Veterans UK in 2012 to better explain who we are and what we do.
Unseen Stories is the podcast about different kinds of military experiences, of loss of sight and adjustment to life and new experiences as a blind person, and of being part of Blind Veterans UK.
The episodes in Unseen Stories features interviews and clips from our archives, as well as conversations with our current veterans.
Blind Veterans UK was founded in 1915 as the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee, but we were known for most of our history as St Dunstan’s. We changed name to Blind Veterans UK in 2012 to better explain who we are and what we do.
Unseen Stories is the podcast about different kinds of military experiences, of loss of sight and adjustment to life and new experiences as a blind person, and of being part of Blind Veterans UK.
The episodes in Unseen Stories features interviews and clips from our archives, as well as conversations with our current veterans.
Blind Veterans UK was founded in 1915 as the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee, but we were known for most of our history as St Dunstan’s. We changed name to Blind Veterans UK in 2012 to better explain who we are and what we do.
Unseen Stories is the podcast about different kinds of military experiences, of loss of sight and adjustment to life and new experiences as a blind person, and of being part of Blind Veterans UK.
The episodes in Unseen Stories features interviews and clips from our archives, as well as conversations with our current veterans.
Blind Veterans UK was founded in 1915 as the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee, but we were known for most of our history as St Dunstan’s. We changed name to Blind Veterans UK in 2012 to better explain who we are and what we do.
Unseen Stories is the podcast about different kinds of military experiences, of loss of sight and adjustment to life and new experiences as a blind person, and of being part of Blind Veterans UK.
The episodes in Unseen Stories features interviews and clips from our archives, as well as conversations with our current veterans.
Blind Veterans UK was founded in 1915 as the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee, but we were known for most of our history as St Dunstan’s. We changed name to Blind Veterans UK in 2012 to better explain who we are and what we do.
During Music Week at our Blind Veterans UK centre in Llandudno our blind veterans had the chance to write a song with singer and songwriter John Nicholas.
Everyone helped to contribute lyrics to create this song, 'Accept, Adapt, Achieve' which became a kind of anthem for our work as a charity.
Earlier this April we held Music Week at our Llandudno centre. It was a chance for our blind veterans to play musical instruments and record some music of their own, including this song 'The Ice Cream Man,' in partnership with singer and songwriter John Nicolas.
It is the story of John and Elizabeth’s granddaughter, Molly, who had been diagnosed with a life threatening heart defect and recently underwent surgery.
John likened what the surgeon has done for her to what Blind Veterans UK does its beneficiaries. John says, “Molly has crazy hair and dancing feet and that was how the song started.” We are happy to report Molly is well now.
Television and radio presenter Johnny Ball explains how many ex-Service men and women could be receiving our support and how to get in touch.
Blind veteran Norman Perry has been supported by our charity for 75 years. Here, talking with BBC Radio Surrey, Brighton Centre Manager Lesley Garven discusses Norman's history with us.
supportthatmatters #brighton #beneficiary #veteran
Meet the voices behind our Radio Play Society. Hear from blind veterans on how they joined and what they get out from being part of the group.
Blind veterans get together weekly at our Brighton centre to record stories from our Radio Play Society. This week they present a stand alone play from the Dangerous Assignments series: The Mystery of the Sunken Ships It's an extraordinary drama of spies and intrigue, mystery and murder and stares our hero, secret service agent Steve Mitchell.
The background - British ships carrying important cargo across Asian seas have been sunk.
The mission – to find out who is sinking the ships and stop them.
Will our hero stop the villains? Will he live to tell the tale?
Listen in to our blind veterans; rendition and find out.
To honour the fallen - his fellow Vikings - his friends and comrades who were killed in Afghanistan, Billy Drinkwater, a blind veteran who served as a Corporal in 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, bears a permanent tribute to the men who breathed their last on the blood soaked ground of Afghanistan.
Respected by those he served with Billy was a career soldier who, during ten years of Service, was recognised for his skill and leadership. On 31 January 2010 the life he knew came to an end when, in Nadi Ali, he was wounded in an IED explosion in the post 9/11 war.
Learn more about Billy, his Service, tattoo and rehabilitation by listening now. Read more and look at photos at blindveterans.org.uk/billystribute
tattoo #veteran #rehabilitation #Afghanistan #corpral #service #tribute #comrades
In our charity magazine, Review, in August 1927 the unveiling of the Menin Gates was recorded by two attending blind veterans, then refered to as St.Dunstaners. This year, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the unveiling three students from RADA, as well as Paul Condon of BFBS TV, we have recorded our blnd veterans' historic account.
meningates #history #sightloss #commemoration #respect #memorial #veterans
One hundred years ago today First World War blinded veteran Frank G Braithwaite landed at Southampton after he was blinded in the Dardenelles.
Written#WW1 veteran's wife Jessie, Assistant Editor of the League of Nations Union Geneva, this story featured in our Review magazine in January 1926. It is read here by former RADA student Gabrille Nellis-Pain.
Blind veteran Chris Nowell, a former Lance Corporal who served with the King’s Royal Hussars from 2001, speaks with Paul Jacobs GM about the day in 2007 when he was wounded in Afghanistan
The podcast is of a conversation between Paul Jacobs and Rob Long as they speak about the Service of Remembrance at the Bastion Memorial Wall this year and what it meant to them. It ties in with the end of 14 years of combat operations in Afghanistan.
A Radio Play Society run by our blind veterans held a red carpet premiere of its first production in more than 70 years.
Written in 1894, it details the journey of a blind grandfather whose daughter lies terribly ill after childbirth. The grandfather's family are all around him and the tale revolves around him being able to sense more than his sighted family.
After more than 70 years the charities Radio Play Society as reformed and open with a play called 'The Intruder.'
Written in 1894, it details the journey of a blind grandfather whose daughter lies terribly ill after childbirth. The grandfather's family are all around him and the tale revolves around him being able to sense more than his sighted family.
Radio Play Society comes together for the first time in 70 years for the charities centenary to do a play called 'The Intruder'
Written in 1894 it details the journey of a blind grandfather whose daughter lies terribly ill after childbirth. The grandfather's family are all around him and the tale revolves around him being able to sense more than his sighted family.
A first-hand account of 25 September 1915 The Battle of Loos by WWI blind veteran Pte. D Matheson Maclean, 11th Royal Scots read by actor Tom Cotcher #battleofloos #100years
A first-hand account of 25 September 1915 The Battle of Loos by WWI blind veteran Pte. D Matheson Maclean, 11th Royal Scots read by actor Tom Cotcher #battleofloos #100years
A first-hand account of 25 September 1915 The Battle of Loos by WWI blind veteran Pte. D Matheson Maclean, 11th Royal Scots read by actor Tom Cotcher
Navy veteran Ian Upton speaks to Insight Radio about his service and how Blind Veterans UK have supported his life after losing his sight.
Donald Sinden one of Blind Veterans UK's supporters is featured here introducing a poem that was written by Major Hastings Brooke one of our first blind World War One veterans, it is a parody on Kipling’s famous poem If.
Simon Brown talks about our No One Alone Campaign and the support that Blind Veterans UK provides for ex-Service men and women struggling with sight loss.
A brilliant interview with 92-year old legend, blind ex-Service man Alan Saunders who is riding the world's longest zip wire for his birthday for #BlindVeteransUK
The Rose of No-Man's Land by William McLean Blind Veterans UK Review July 1920, read by Lewis Johnson March 2013
Two very moving poems by blind veteran Paul Jacobs. Paul was blinded by a Taliban bomb in Upper Sangin Valley, Helmand Province in Afghanistan’s front line in 2009. He was awarded the prestigious George Medal for bravery as he continued to protect his colleagues after he was wounded. His medal citation praised his ‘faultless courage, selflessness and dedication to his unit.’ #WorldWarOne #TheSomme #Poetry
An audio account of the trip Blind Veterans UK's younger group took to the Somme, to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. #WorldWarOne #Centenary
In part two: Clive and his wife Anne speak to BFBS's Chris Sturgess. In the interview Clive talks about going the shock and despair of going blind overnight and the help Blind Veterans UK have given him and his family.
Part 1: Clive and his wife Anne have recently been speaking to BFBS's Chris Sturgess. In the interview Clive talks about going the shock and despair of going blind overnight and the help Blind Veterans UK have given him and his family.
Listen to find out who Blind Veterans UK supports and if you or someone you know could be eligible for our free services and support.
Jeremy Paxman chat's about his book 'Great Britain's Great War', also mentioning Blind Veterans UK, then St Dunstan's, and the support we gave to blinded veterans of the First World War. He also learns about the birth of RNIB Talking Books. #RNIB #blindveterans #blind #veterans #worldwarone #talkingbooks
Blind artist Peter Barrington is interviewed on BBC Radio Norfolk about the support he has received from Blind Veterans UK.
Blind veteran Peter Phipps speaks to Malcolm Boyden on #BBCRadio #Oxford about the free support he has received from #BlindVeteransUK.
Read more on our blog: www.blindveteransblog.org.uk/news/blind-oxfordshire-raf-veteran-thanks-charity-for-absolutely-marvellous-support
Blind #veteran Peter Phipps speaks to Malcolm Boyden on #BBCRadio #Oxford about the free support he has received from #BlindVeteransUK.
Fitness enthusiast Ian Venner speaks on BBC Radio Shropshire about his personal mission to trek 100k for Blind Veterans UK. www.walk100.org.uk
Actor Colin Firth talks about his new role in The Railway Man film which is an adaptation of a book written by Eric Lomax. Eric was a prisoner of war alongside blind veteran Kenneth Hill who was also forced to work on the Railway of Death. Kenneth now receives free support from Blind Veterans UK, and you can read his story on our blog: www.blindveteransblog.org.uk/news/fepow-and-blind-veteran-kenneth-hill-speaks-on-the-eve-of-of-vj-day
If you know someone who served in the Armed Forces and has sight loss, request free support at www.noonealone.org.uk
Blind Veterans UK Sheffield centre manager Terry Heaton speaks to BBC Radio Sheffield with blind veteran Norman Baillie about the work of Blind Veterans UK. #charity #noonealone #blindness
Blind Veterans UK Sheffield centre manager Terry Heaton speaks to BBC Radio Humberside along with blind veteran Derek Sarginson about the work Blind Veterans UK does.
Blind veteran Simon Brown speaks on #BBC Radio #Leeds about the support he has received from Blind Veterans UK and the significance of #Christmas since being shot by sniper fire in #Iraq 6 years ago.
Blind veteran Clive Huntingford speaks with wife Anne on BBC Radio Northamptonshire about his 2014 challenge to walk 100k for Blind Veterans UK. #walk100
Blind veteran Clive Huntingford speaks with wife Anne on BBC Radio Northamptonshire about his 2014 challenge to walk 100k for Blind Veterans UK. #walk100
Steve Tuffen who was shot twice in the head during the Falklands War, speaks to KMFM West Kent about the support he has received from national charity Blind Veterans UK. To request free support go to www.noonealone.org.uk.
BFBS interviews people from each of the five charities supported by the BFBS Big Salute campaign. Listen to interviews with blind veterans David Martin, Simon Brown and Director of Fundraising and Communications Andrew Jones who are all representing Blind Veterans UK. #BFBS #Radio #Blindness #Vision #BigSalute
Chris Nowell talks of his experiences serving in the King's Royal Hussars in an interview on #Rememberance Sunday 2013
On Remembrance Sunday 2013, Blind Veterans UK member Michael Scanlan shares his experiences on BBC Radio Humberside
Blind Veterans UK's Archives and Collections Manager Robert Baker speaks on BBC Radio Shropshire about the 98 year history of Blind Veterans UK, our former links with Shropshire itself and #Remembrance Sunday.
Blind veteran Carl Parkinson is interviewed by RNIB Insights Radio about support he has received from national #charity Blind Veterans UK. Russell Snowdon of T(n)S Catering is also interviewed as he now holds the #WorldRecord for eating Ferrero Rocher in the quickest time.
Charlene Guy at BFBS did a short interview with blind veteran Karl Parkinson about the record breaking attempt day at Blind Veterans UK Llandudno that Charlie took part in. #guinnessworldrecord #record #llandudno #veteran #blindness
Blind veteran Joe Bennett tells his account of his time on the Russian Convoys during #WW2 #Russia #Veteran #blind #part1
92 year old Billy Orr, who lives at the national #charity #Blind Veterans UK in #Brighton, tells of his time as a Prisoner of the #Korea War with #BBC1 South East. He also shows his Ambassador for Peace #medal which he has received recently.
92 year old Billy Orr, who lives at the national charity Blind Veterans UK in Brighton, tells of his time as a Prisoner of the Korea War with BBC1 South East. He also shows his Ambassador for Peace medal which he has received recently. Read more: www.blindveteransblog.org.uk/news/92-year-old-billy-orr-tells-of-his-time-as-a-prisoner-of-the-korea-war
92 year old Billy Orr, who lives at the national charity Blind Veterans UK in Brighton, tells of his time as a Prisoner of the Korea War with BBC1 South East. He also shows his Ambassador for Peace medal which he has received recently. Read more: www.blindveteransblog.org.uk/news/92-year-old-billy-orr-tells-of-his-time-as-a-prisoner-of-the-korea-war
Thank you BFBS Radio who gave a big shout out for the Blind Veterans UK 100k walk 2014. Are you tough enough? www.walk100.org.uk
A #War Poem by William Robinson, Blind Veterans UK Review December 1916, read by Matthew Hopkinson in March 2013
How I Won My Lizzie by an unknown soldier blinded in #WWI, featured in Blind Veterans UK Review November 1916, read by Charlie Collicutt in the March 2013 Review.
KoreanWar #Veteran Billy Ore speaks to #BBC Radio #Sussex about his campaign for his 'Peace Medal'.
Blind Veterans UK's Andrew Jones and member David Poyner speak to BBC Radio 4 about the #noonealone campaign.
TV Star Johnny Ball is interviewed by Charlene Guy of #BFBS #Radio to discuss his backing of the Blind Veterans UK #noonealone campaign.
TV Star Johnny Ball is interviewed by Charlene Guy on BFBS Radio to discuss the Blind Veterans UK #noonealone campaign.
BFBS interview Blind Veterans UK's Tracy Stratford about the up and coming #tartsfotroops #baking #campaign 29th June - 5th June www.tartsfortroops.org.uk
Blind Veterans UK Sheffield centre manager Terry Heaton and member Dennis talk to #Sheffield Live about our No One Alone campaign.
BBC Radio Wales cover the official opening of Blind Veterans UK Llandudno centre, conducted by General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff.
BFBS Radio give a shout out to the Blind Veterans UK Tarts for Troops #baking campaign.
Chris Merrylees, a Virgin #London #Marathon runner and #guide to #Blind #Veterans UK member Mike Scholes, speaks to #BBC #Radio #Norfolk about his Marathon #challenge.
Charlotte Cooper-Garcha is a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She read three poems, which were written by Thomas Dennison, an early member of Blind Veterans UK who was blinded in the First World War. An official in a coal mine in Staffordshire before the war, he joined the 8th North Staffs on 7th September 1914. A year later he was totally blinded by a trench mortar at Givenchy in France on 7th October 1915. His poems featured in Blind Veterans UK Review magazine in 1917. This is the first time they have been heard by a wider audience. We thank Charlotte.
Charlotte Cooper-Garcha is a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She read three poems, which were written by Thomas Dennison, an early member of Blind Veterans UK who was blinded in the First World War. An official in a coal mine in Staffordshire before the war, he joined the 8th North Staffs on 7th September 1914. A year later he was totally blinded by a trench mortar at Givenchy in France on 7th October 1915. His poems featured in Blind Veterans UK Review magazine in 1917. This is the first time they have been heard by a wider audience. We thank Charlotte.
Charlotte Cooper-Garcha is a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She read three poems, which were written by Thomas Dennison, an early member of Blind Veterans UK who was blinded in the First World War. An official in a coal mine in Staffordshire before the war, he joined the 8th North Staffs on 7th September 1914. A year later he was totally blinded by a trench mortar at Givenchy in France on 7th October 1915. His poems featured in Blind Veterans UK Review magazine in 1917. This is the first time they have been heard by a wider audience. We thank Charlotte.
The account by Helen Wilson is an incredible one of the time she went AWOL in April 1945 to go to France to find the grave of her brother who had been killed in action. Fighting was still going on and it was a dangerous time. Helen’s account provides an insight into the time and it is an extraordinary story of love and courage to find the final resting place of her brother. Helen gave this to Blind Veterans UK shortly before her death on 19 March this year. Helen, who was from Inverness in Scotland, became a member of Blind Veterans UK in 2008. During WWII she served in the ATS in the UK and Belgium. It is read by Lucy Barter.
Blind Veterans UK centre manger Lesley Garven and member Terry Walker are interviewed on BBC Radio Sussex about the 75th Anniversary of the Brighton centre and Terry's challenge to walk 75 miles this year.
Blind Veterans UK member Craig Lundberg is interviewed on Heart FM Northwest and Wales. Craig talks about his experiences in #Iraq ten years on and also the #charity Blind Veterans UK.
Blind Veterans UK member and employee Simon Brown talks to #BBC #Radio #Leeds about #Iraq #tenyearson
Part 2 of the inteview with Blind Veterans UK member Bob Early on BBC Radio Berkshire by Anne Diamond. Bob talks about his time serving in WW2 and his covert operation in Germany where he identified an SS officer.
Blind Veterans UK member Bob Early speaks to BBC Radio Berkshire presenter Anne Diamond about his life serving in WW2 and his covert operation in Germany where he identified an SS officer.
BFBSRadio Neil Moore interviews Blind Veterans UK's #fundraising team member Jackson Medlow-Stagg about the #BrightonHalf & #BrightonMarathon.
Captain Mark Lewis speaks to #JuiceFM #Brighton about why he is running the #Brighton #Half_Marathon for #Blind_Veterans_UK
RNIB #Insightradio speaks to Blind Veterans UK's Andrew Jones and #BBC #Waterlooroad star Alec Newman about our recent #noonealone campaign.
Blind Veterans UK member Iain Millard speaks to Charlene Guy from #BFBS #Radio about the #BrightonMarathon
RNIB #Vision Magazine speak to #Blind #Veterans UK about our #art & #craft activites for our members. #RNIB also speak with some of our members who tell their #stories.
Garrison FM news speaks to Blind Veterans UK's Rosalind Parry about our Star of Remembrance campaign. www.blindveterans.org.uk/stars
Blind #Veterans #UK member Helen Wilson tells her account of the time she went AWOL in #1945 to travel to #France to find her brother’s grave and the many wonderful people who helped her travel from her Ack-Ack unit in #Belgium to France. Read by Valerie Tomalin.
Juice FM give a shout out to the Blind Veterans UK team who were holding a #festive #carol singing event at #Brighton's Churchill Square on November 22nd.
Blind Veterans UK member John Hind is #marrying Blind Veterans UK member 92 year old Margaret Dufty on 23rd Novemeber 2012. #wedding #marriage
Blind Veterans UK member speaks to Juice FM Radio about his march to the #Cenotaph on #Remembrance Sunday on behalf of #Blind #Veterans #UK.
Thea Davies, who is running 415 miles for Blind Veterans UK in the memory of her partner Captain Stephen Healey talks to #BBC Radio #Wales.
Blind #Veterans UK member Bob Dawnson speaks to #BBC Radio #Newcastle about how he is taking part in the march to London's #Cenotaph on #Remembrance Sunday.
Blind Veterans UK would like to thank Sam Gearing, a 19 year old Foundation student at RADA, who recorded an account written in 1916 by 19 year old Frank G Braithwaite who was #blinded in the Dardanelles, during #WWI.
In the July 2011 edition of the Review we featured a report by Ron Croxton who fought at the Battle of #Maleme. We were then contacted by Bill Thompson who was captured at Maleme and he has recounted his incredible account of life as a #Prisoner of #War. Bill was a member of a Commando #Battalion and he talks of his capture, his escape from one POW camp and how he gained an education in another. It’s an incredible and true account
Join us today. We help not just those who have lost their sight through #service but anyone who has served in the armed forces and has subsequently experienced severe loss of #sight.
Here is some more #information about the #Blind #Veterans #UK centres based in #Sheffield, #Brighton and #Llandudno in #Wales.
Find out the ways in which we help support #Blind #Veterans regain their #independance. #uk
Find out the ways in which #Blind #Veterans UK help to support blind and #vision impaired ex-Service men and women #uk
Find out more about how Blind #Veterans UK supports #blind #emergency #service personnel.
Are you eligible to become a #member of #charity #Blind #Veterans UK? Find out what our #membership #criteria is.
Visually impaired Maria Pikulski interviewed by BBC Radio Lancashire about her experience of sight loss and the support Blind Veterans UK gave her.
BBC Radio Lancaster interview nurse Maria Pikulski, who lost her sight suddenly in 2009, and hear how Blind Veterans UK helped her relearn crucial skills.
President Ray Hazan OBE explains what the charity does and why we have rebranded to Blind Veterans UK
St Dunstan's charity for blind and partially-sighted ex-military raise the flags on their rebrand to Blind Veterans UK