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The Unseen: Blind and partially sighted people’s experiences of domestic abuse

One in 12 visually impaired people in the UK is believed to be a victim or survivor of domestic abuse, according to a new report published today (10 October 2022) by sight loss charity the Vision Foundation. This means that 188,000 of the 2.19 million blind and partially sighted people living in this country have experience of domestic abuse, with men and women both affected.

Vision Foundation press release – The Unseen launches Monday 10 October 2022 

London’s leading sight loss charity is benefiting from a legacy almost 50 years after the benefactor’s death.

The Vision Foundation has found itself at the centre of a poignant and intriguing story of lost art, Nazi persecution and post war politics, thanks to the generosity of a Jewish woman who fled Vienna for London soon after Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938.

Fifty years after her death valuable artworks held by the German state and on loan to various museums in the country have been reclaimed and sold at auction.

Vision Foundation Press Release – Lowenstein Austin paintings

98-year-old sight loss charity relaunches for World Sight Day, Thursday 10 October

After nearly 100 years, the Greater London Fund for the Blind (GLFB) has launched a new brand and name change to become the Vision Foundation.

To mark this change the charity commissioned a YouGov survey that found most people do not believe a blind person could do some or any of their job. Of the more than 1,800 people polled, only 6 percent of working adults said someone who was blind could do all of their job, while 26 per cent said they could do some of it.

Vision Foundation launch press release FINAL 10 Oct 2019