Jemma Davidson, RNIB Customer Voice Insight Coordinator shares the latest opportunities for blind and partially sighted people to get involved in with RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey.

Opportunities highlighted this week included:

Millie is a See Sport Differently Champion based in Worcestershire. She is working on a project to create a gym buddy database, similar to the Find a Guide Database for finding a guide runner. 

Millie is a former personal trainer and is hoping that the new database could help increase access to gyms for blind and partially sighted people. The hope is that the database will connect users with volunteers who have signed up to support visually impaired individuals in using their local gym. Such support would include guiding people around the facilities and equipment. 

In order to develop this concept further and make Gym Buddy a reality, Millie is looking for people to fill out a survey she has created. This will help Millie gain some valuable feedback on the idea and gauge interest.

If you would like to help Millie then do send her an email via [email protected]

To celebrate the amazing contribution volunteers make to the RNIB we’re holding an online ‘Keeping In Touch’ session from 1-2pm on 5 December which, fittingly, is International Volunteers Day. 

It's a chance for volunteers to connect with other volunteers and you can join online or by phone, whatever suits best. Register now by calling 0303 123 9999. 

The RNIB business services team are looking to do case studies of people who have benefitted from their services, so if you have benefitted from the accessible payment card of Nationwide or Mastercard and are willing to be interviewed about your experience, please contact [email protected] for more details.

RNIB’s Counselling and Wellbeing Team, in conjunction with the Employment Advice Team, would like to invite people with sight loss who are currently in employment to take part in a pilot project providing a forum for people to discuss the emotional impact of sight loss in a workplace setting.  

If you would like to know more, please email: [email protected].

To find out more about these Connect Voices opportunities and how you can get involved with RNIB Connect Voices do visit - https://www.rnib.org.uk/connect-community/connect-voices-network/connect-voices-current-opportunities

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