Sight Service (Gateshead and South Tyneside)

Description

Local services for local people.

Two well equipped resource centres:
- information and advice
- home visiting and My Guide
- Low Vision service (Gateshead only)
- Rehabilitation and Mobility services
- telephone support
- advocacy
- benefits advice including form filling and tribunal representation
- IT training (see below)
- visual awareness training
- social clubs
- young persons' group (under 19s).
- Sports and fitness activities

ICT information:
- computers with screen magnification and screen reading software
- staff/volunteers that can teach people who use magnification and screen reading software
- can teach blind or partially sighted people how to use a computer with just a keyboard
- can produce course materials in an accessible format.

ICT courses detail:
- ICT training available at entry level and level 2


Sight Service (Gateshead and South Tyneside) is working in partnership with RNIB's Advice Service.

Services offered:

• Benefits advice
• Grants and funding
• Local authority social care
• Volunteering
• Employment advice
• Health and social care
• Community eye care
• Low vision services
• Assistive technology products
• Tactile products
• Low vision aids
• Loan equipment
• Everyday products
• Computer products
• Art
• Music
• Clubs and classes
• Social functions
• Trips and outings
• Football
• Other sports
• Support groups
• Rehabilitation
• Telephone befriending service
• Home visiting
• Emotional support
• Community advice
• Befriending
• Everyday living skills
• Mobility training
• Learning braille
• Computer skills
• Assistive technology training
• Braille transcription
• Large print transcription
• Library services
• Book clubs
• Eye health advice
• Form fill service
• Benefit checks