Vision & Hearing Support

Local services for local people. With a well equipped resource centre, they offer:
- information and advice
- home visiting
- Low Vision service (Gateshead only)
- Rehabilitation and Mobility services
- telephone support
- benefits advice
- visual awareness training

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
• 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
• Library services
• Book clubs
• Eye health advice
• Form fill service
• Benefit checks