Each week we sit down with Matt Stringer, CEO of RNIB, to look at some of the big stories coming from the UK sight loss charity.

For the first catch up of 2025 Matt began by reflecting on all the great coverage in both national and local press of how the RNIB and blind and partially sighted people had been celebrating World Braille Day on 4 January 2025, marking the day that Louis Braille was born, plus all the on-going Braille 200 events as we all mark 200 years since Louis Braille invented his six-dot tactile reading and writing system.

Then to the visit from Tim Davie, Director General of the BBC to our London office the Grimaldi Building on Wednesday 8 January 2025 with Matt talking about how the visit had gone which also included a tour of the Grimaldi Building, a meeting with Matt and other senior RNIB staff along with Matt mentioning a project that the BBC and the RNIB are working together on which we will all hear more about in the summer.

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