Each week, RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell sits down with Matt Stringer, CEO of RNIB, to look at some of the big stories coming from the UK sight loss charity.

This week Matt talks about the charity’s Big Travel Survey and follow up work, engaging with the UK Government on the forthcoming DWP Green Paper and some fund raising news.

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Something for the Weekend highlights the best in accessible audio content each week. This weekend we have the return of Lady Gaga, with her latest album 'Mayhem'. Check the rest of Hannah's recommendations here.

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Jennifer Murray chats to Elspeth Brown to find out about her life as a totally blind person including the many different things she does to keep herself busy.

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Time now for our monthly update from the Macular Society and their My Macular and Me webinar. David Hogg caught up with the organiser of the webinars Colin Daniels to find out what's in store this month. 

 Did you know that RNIB runs a Women's Group as part of their Talk and Support service? It’s a social support group for women who are blind or partially sighted.

Joining Paulina Kuchorew to tell us more about it is Jen Worrall.

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Sight loss charity RNIIB are launching a new survey and are looking to speak to people who have been recently diagnosed with sight loss, their friends and family, and also professionals working in post-diagnostic support. 

The findings will be used to understand and improve post-diagnostic support for people with sight loss.

Barry Snell spoke to RNIB Head of Strategic Innovation, Caroline Beard, to find out more.

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The Business Disability forum is a business membership organisation, a leader in disability inclusion, who work in partnership with business, Government, and disabled people to remove some of those barriers to inclusion that we all face as blind and partially sighted people and disabled people too.

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was joined by Lara Davis, BDF’s Director of Communications and Marketing to find out more about BDF, what the term disability-smart world means, their sight loss online toolkit along with what the ‘Changing the image of disability’ campaign is all about too.

For more about the Business disability Forum, the sight loss toolkit and their ‘Changing the image of disability’ campaign do visit - https://businessdisabilityforum.org.uk 

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Julius Mbura is a blind disability rights activist and lawyer. 

In a special conversation with RNIB’s Dave Williams he explains how his fundraising and activism led him all the way to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.

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A new gene therapy treatment has restored sight to young children with a condition called Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA).

RNIB Connect Radio’s Allan Russell spoke to James Bainbridge, from Moorfields Eye Hospital, to learn more about the procedure and the differences it can make.

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This Friday in Brighton there’s a chance to get hands on with a new accessible arts exhibition. Hywel Davies has been finding out more.

For more information, visit the South East Dance website - we are all memory bodies | South East Dance