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In Touch: Help On Your Doorstep?

14/01/2020

Help On Your Doorstep?

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Help On Your Doorstep?

Peter White looks at the role smaller charities play in helping blind people.

Peter White looks at smaller blind charities. What role do they play? How are they funded? Do enough people actually know they exist?

Peter White with a focus on smaller blind charities in the UK.
We hear from Visionary, an umbrella organisation which represents more than a hundred of these charities.
The Chief Executives of Sight Concern Worcestershire and Sight Service Gateshead tell us about the challenges they face. 
And we hear from the people who use the services on offer.
PRODUCER: Mike Young.

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