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The Royal National College for the Blind is the UK's leading provider of further education for people with sight loss, offering academic and vocational courses alongside ICT and Braile, independence and mobility training.

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RNC does not endorse any of the following websites but we hope you might find them useful.

Sport
 
British Blind Sport (BBS) is a national registered charity that enables visually impaired people to have the same opportunities as sighted people to access and enjoy sport and recreational activities in the UK.
 
Disability Information and Support
 
This website is for parents, carers and people who work with and for disabled young people in transition to adulthood. This website is an alliance of organisations and individuals who come together with a common aim: to improve disabled young people's experience of transition to adulthood.
 
The Jewish Blind and Physically Handicapped Society offer housing and independence to Jewish people who are visually impaired and want to be in an independent, secure Jewish enviroment.  
 
The Coventry Asian Blind Association is a network of blind and partially sighted Asian people living in and around the Coventry area. They provide information, advice, emotional support and counselling for blind and partially sighted people and their carers.
 
Waltham Forest Blind Association is open to all people who are registered visually impaired. They aim to promote visual impairment awareness within the community.
 
The Good Access Guide, the UK's leading directory of services for disabled people, seniors, and anyone whose life is made easier by better access to goods, services and amenities.
 
Birmingham Focus on Blindness is Birmingham's leading society for the blind and provides a wide range of practical services for visually impaired people, their relatives and carers.
 
The Nystagmus Network is a UK-based self-help group set up in 1984, providing support for adults and children with nystagmus, their parents and teachers and fostering research into the condition.
 
SNAP Cymru is the Special Needs Advisory Project for Wales. We are a charity that offers information and support to families of children with learning difficulties or people who have special educational needs. Your SNAP Cymru Parent Partnership Service offers independent, impartial information and advice. The service is free to parents, carers and young people. Our trained Officers and Volunteer Independent Parental Supporters are able to help.
 
Disability Now is one of the UK's leading disability sites, giving essential information: news and feature articles, advice, adverts, links, an archive and a chat forum.
 
Site promoting Disability Information Services - who give free, confidential and impartial information on anything to do with living with disabilities.
 
RNIB is one of the leading charities offering practical support and information to anyone with a sight problem.
 
Echurch UK is a Christian fellowship for blind and partially sighted people.
 
Computing
 
Electronic Aids for the Blind is a national charity that helps people with sight loss to communicate through the use of specialised or specially adapted technology.
 
Dolphin Computer Access has a simple goal: to provide software products that allow visually impaired people to use mainstream computer applications in their original form. Through the use of Dolphin's screen enlargers, screen readers and Braille output, users can operate word processors, spreadsheets, databases and the internet. Their extensive product range ensures students around the world have the means to achieve their full potential and succeed at school, college and within the work place.
Dolphin's flagship product ‘Supernova' has recently won the coveted UK WOW award for technology in education.
 
Adapt-IT - the first ONE-STOP computer store for disabled people - supplying computer hardware and software for people who have: mobility problems; visual impairment ; dyslexia ; learning difficulties and other special needs.
 
Vitalis and Net With The Best helped us to design, develop and continue to manage our web site.
 
Learning and Working
 
Wider Horizons is a web portal acting as a doorway to all forms of education and training in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
 
The Disabled Workers Co-operative is a not-for-profit organisation that helps disabled people to help themselves - this is a link to their online database of the skills, services and products disabled people have to offer.
 
Skill: National Bureau for Students With Disabilities. Skill promotes opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK.
 
ww.avios.org.uk                          
AVIOS is a self-help organisation for visually impaired people who have an interest in work in an office-related occupation and/or use office equipment in another area of their lives.
 
Government and Business
 
Directgov is the government run web site providing the widest range of government information and services online - advice on jobs, travel, tax & benefits, health, education, pensions and housing in the UK.
 
The Nationwide Access Register allows you to search for shops, businesses and service providers throughout the United Kingdom that provide the access and facilities you need - everything from entrances, lifts and toilets to auxiliary aids such as Braille and staff assistance.
 
Talking News Federation

A.I.R.S. (Access To Information And Reading Services).
www.gateshead.gov.uk/airs

Beacon Talking Newspaper
www.beacon4blind.co.uk

Birmingham TN Association
www.birminghamtalkingnewspaper.org.uk  

Chester Talking Newspaper
www.chestervip.org.uk

Chichester Area Talking Newspaper
www.catn.org.uk

Cue and Review Recording Service
www.cueandreview.org.uk

Crewe and Nantwich
Details about the voluntary organisation providing a weekly tape of local news for visually impaired people
www.cntn.org.uk

Dacorum Talking Newspaper
www.dtnhemel.org.uk

East Surrey Talking Newspaper
www.estna.btik.com

Elmbridge and Runnymede Talking Newspaper Association
www.users.waitrose.com/~eartn/

Forest Talk
www.foresttalk.co.uk

Gloucester Talking Newspaper
beehive.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/gcvba  

Granta Grapevine
Talking Newspaper for the village of Linton and the surrounding district in South Cambridgeshire
www.grantanet.co.uk/grapevine/granta.htm

Hamilton Sound
Talking Newspaper for the Hamilton & District
www.hamiltonsound.co.uk

Hull & District Talking Newspaper
www.hulltalkingmagazine.org.uk

Lake District Talking Newspaper
www.communigate.co.uk/lakes/sltna/

Langbaurgh Talking Newspaper
www.langbaurgh.co.uk

Lowestoft and District TN "SoundEast"
www.soundeast.org

Maidenhead and District Talking Newspaper
www.maidenheadtn.org.uk

Mid Essex News Tapes Association For The Blind.
www.welcome.to/menta

Radlett, Elstree, Borehamwood and Shenley
Talking Newspaper - Produce Weekly talking newspaper tape of local news for blind and partially sighted people
www.rebstn.org.uk

Reading's Talking Newspaper.
www.readingtalkingnewspaper.org.uk

Rockvale Rebound TN.
www.rockvalerebound.co.uk

Scarborough Talking Newspaper.
www.scarboroughtn.freeserve.co.uk

Selby District Talking News
Weekly tape of local news. We also produce a magazine tape four times a year, as well as copying Soundings for our listeners every month. 
http://users.whsmithnet.co.uk/johnstell/sdtn.htm  

Southwark Talking Newspaper for the Blind, London.
www.listen.to/southwark

Sound Vision Ulster is RNIB Northern Ireland's monthly news letter.
www.soundvisionulster.com

Soundwaves
Complete audio of two magazines and two newspapers.
www.soundwaves-online.org.uk

Swindon and District Talking Newspaper Association.
www.swindontalkingnews.org.uk

Tendring Talking Times of Clacton
www.tendringtalkingtimes.org.uk

Talking Newspaper for the village of Linton and the surrounding district in South Cambridgeshire.
www.grantanet.co.uk/grapevine/granta.htm

West Riding Blind Association.
www.wrba.org.uk

Whitecliffs Talking Newspaper (Kent)
www.welcome.to/wtn 

Whitstable Echo Talking Newspaper.
http://www.tnauk.org.uk/Pages/links.html

Wickford Talking Newspaper.
www.members.tripod.com/thegloob/wickfordtn

Yews Talking Newspaper.
www.yews-talking-news.org.uk/

Other

Action for Blind People
Action for Blind People is an expert national organisation, ensuring blind and partially sighted people get practical support in all aspects of their lives.
www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk

Assistive Living Foundation
Assisted Living Foundation is a charity supporting older people, disabled adults, disabled children, carers and supporters in the London and Home Counties area. They offer training, run groups and give grants.
www.assistedliving.org.uk

Association of Wheelchair Children
www.charitynet.org/~wheelchair-children

A-Technic
The UK registered charity specializing in technology to help people with disabilities
www.a-technic.net

British Wireless For The Blind Fund
Provides specially designed and built radio, radio cassette and CD players for the registered blind.
www.blind.org.uk

BlueIRIS
This is a new interactive internet radio station which has information relevant to blind and visually impaired people as well as interviews, features, news and entertainment.
www.blueiris.info

Calibre Audio Library
www.calibre.org.uk

CancerHelp
UK is a free information service about cancer and cancer care for people with cancer and their families.
www.cancerhelp.org.uk

Choice Technology
Offer a wide range of software at affordable prices and offer training and consultancy services for users and companies
www.screenreader.co.uk 
 

Radio
 
Insight Radio is the radio station of the RNIB.