Sight Life (the new name of Cardiff Institute for the Blind)

Sight Life (formerly Cardiff Institute for the Blind) provides a range of services across South Wales with the aim of ensuring blind and partially sighted people can enjoy an independent, active, and fulfilling social life. We were set up in 1865, making us one of the oldest charities in Wales. In fact, we will celebrate our 150th anniversary in 2015! We are also very honoured to have rugby legend Sir Gareth Edwards as our President and Ceri Dupree as our patron. We aim to locally support blind and partially sighted people to maintain or improve their physical and emotional wellbeing by providing advice and support to help people exercise, manage medication, eat healthily, increase confidence and self-esteem, give them a sense of security and future, and reduce incidents of falls and accidents. We want people to enjoy independent and fulfilled lives by helping them to be part of a community, to take part in social and leisure activities, get out and about more, to be able and wil...