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A huge congratulations to all the winners at last night's Disability Power 100 awards, organised by the Shaw Trust! The Disability Power 100 recognises the most influential disabled people in the UK each year at a purple-carpet awards event celebrating impact, influence and innovation. In particular we're celebrating Robbie Crow who was voted 3rd most influential disabled person in the UK, up against some amazing competition. Robbie is an experienced disability inclusion specialist working to create equitable workforces that make disabled people feel valued, included and understood, and like a place they belong. Everything he does is underpinned by Social Model of Disability values to create environments where everyone can thrive and be included. Robbie regularly shares his experience, hints and tips with CamSight and here on LinkedIn. If you’d like to hear some of what he's learned, and use his experience to help improve your organisation, make sure to follow Robbie now!

* * * Job Opportunity * * * Advice Worker for Equipment and Accessibility (Fenland & East Cambs) We’re hiring an enthusiastic Advice Worker to join our team! You’ll play a key role in delivering low vision equipment and accessibility advice across Fenland and East Cambridgeshire. What you’ll do: • Provide personalised advice and support on assistive devices (smart speakers, smartphones, tablets). • Drive our company vehicle to bring accessibility services directly into the heart of local communities. Contract: Full Time Permanent Salary: £25,874 - £27,582 p/a Hours: 35 hours Monday to Friday Location: Blended - in the community and homeworking (Fenland & East Cambridgeshire) If you’re passionate about helping others and want to make a difference, we want to hear from you! Location: Fenland & East Cambridgeshire Apply today and good luck with your application! Click on the link below to take you to our job description: https://lnkd.in/ecJHgJym #JobOpportunity #AdviceWorker #AccessibilitySupport #Fenland #EastCambridgeshire #HiringNow Image description: A blue banner across the top with white text reads We are hiring! below this banner is a group photo of staff standing outside a building looking smart and smiling. Below on the lower banner is the CamSight logo which has purple and grey in font and above the 'i' is C and S spelled in braille coloured dots.

We’re Hiring! Groups & Volunteer Coordinator We're recruiting a Groups & Volunteer Coordinator to develop and facilitate CamSight’s Local Group programme in Cambridge and South Cambs. In this active hands-on role you will be responsible for the development and facilitation of CamSight's local groups program ensuring that a calendar of existing and new groups is delivered across the south of the county. The role will oversee all aspects of delivering and facilitating the local groups, including arranging venues, speakers, entertainment, refreshments and transport for service users as well as recruiting and training volunteers. You will be working alongside the Group and Volunteer Coordinator - North Cambs to ensure our groups are accessible across the county. If you’re ready to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you! Visit the link below for job description and person specification. https://lnkd.in/eGG_NEGX #NewJob #Vacancy #CharityJob #SightLoss #SupportGroups Image description: Two ladies sit next to each other smiling and laughing at each other. They are sat in a community hall with chairs and bright yellow curtains.

Would you like to make a difference whilst having fun? Can you help at our stall at the Alconbury Weald Community Fun Day, on Saturday 7th September from 11am to 5pm. You may only be able to help for a couple of hours, but whatever support you could offer please get in touch with our fundraising team! No previous experience is necessary. Contact incomegeneration@camsight.org.uk or phone 01223 420033 Image Description: A lady dressed in a purple hat holding a fundraising bucket smiles to the camera, she is standing outside under a purple gazebo with a CamSight banner behind her. #CamSightCommunity #TeamCamSight #SightLoss #VICommunity

Now THIS is what we’re talking about! The first ever blind Mattel #Barbie helping to promote inclusivity and acceptance and pushing the boundaries for the blind community. At the same time this new doll helps to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about blindness. And we think this is brilliant ! 💕🌸💘 Tell us what you think? Maybe one to add to your kids’ Christmas list? #Blindness #Barbie #BlindBarbie #Inclusivity #Acceptance #VIcommunity Image credit: Mattel, Inc. Barbie Image description A doll in a packaged pink box and next to it is doll wearing a pink skirt and holding a white cane.

It’s #SmallCharityWeek Thank you to our amazing community of supporters that make our work possible! We love the chance to celebrate the fantastic work and our awesome CamSight Community! From pilates, rowing, walking, to peer support groups, emotional support services and advice on the latest VI technology, we help so many people throughout Cambridge and Peterborough who are going through sight loss. Our latest photos of what we have been up to have been posted today with a big THANK YOU! We may be small, yet we are mighty 💪 #SmallCharityWeek #SightLoss #Blindness #MakeADifference #CamSightCommunity #LowVision #SupportVI #SightlossJourney #VIactivities #VISport #VIInclusion #PeerSupportGroup #Volunteers #Volunteering #Fundraising #fundraiseforus Image one: Two ladies smile at the camera, the lady on the left is wearing a white cardigan and has short hair, the lady on the right is wearing a blue jacket and has short brown hair. They are sitting in a room with blue walls. Image two: A group of runners go past the camera and turn and wave, they have big smiles and cheers on their faces. They are running along a treelined street with lots of other runners behind them. Image three: Three ladies sit behind a coffee table in a community hall. They are smiling at the camera, the lady on the right-hand side is Rosie and she wears a black jacket and polka dot dress. Image four: A group of people sit on a boat with low lying sun in the background. The photo is showing a group of VI individuals moving along Wicken Fen river. One man wears a high vis jacket, one lady is looking out of the boat smiling.

Kate Lindgen is a real inspiration for VI Rowing and has helped to push VI Rowing opportunities at Peterborough City Rowing Club. Our service users at CamSight have been taking part in monthly sessions supported by this fantastic club, in an initiative by British Rowing's charitable trust Love Rowing. Video Description: Kate Lindgen has been rowing with Peterborough City Rowing Club for seven years. In this interview she talks about the sense of freedom and independence she gets from being on the water. In the video we see her out on a rowing boat with coach Pete, in a two man rowing boat. Then the pair sit alongside the boarding pontoon as she talks to the camera about her experiences over the past seven years. The weather is overcast and there are other boats on the lake. #BlindRower #SightLoss #VisualImpairement #CamSightCommunity #Wellbeing #CambridgeCharity #blindness #VISport

One very big thank you to Tesco’s March Hostmoor Superstore and its customers, who have raised £350 for CamSight via the community bookstall! Our new Business Development Manager, Sara Fleming, popped along to meet Community Champion Kelly to receive the cheque and talk about how the monies will be used. Sara Fleming, commented "When communities come together, good things happen. Tesco has always been so supportive of our charity, and we can't thank Kelly, the team, and their customers enough for this new donation. All monies raised contribute to our vital work supporting individuals living with sight loss throughout Cambridgeshire and Peterborough – including our monthly Peer Support Group at March Library." Do you live near March? Call us on 01223 420033 to find out more about how we can help! #CamSightCommunity #SupportVI #VisuallyImpaired #CharitySupport #Inclusion #Sightloss #Tesco #Fundraising #Donations #CharityFundraising Tesco Image Description: Two ladies are standing looking at the camera smiling. They are holding a large cheque which reads Tesco: Camsight £350 dated 7.6.24 In the background there is a poster which reads Serving March Hostmoor's customers, communities and planet.

Shining the spotlight today, on Julia King from Leverington who supports our Wisbech peer support group! Thank you Julia for helping all our lovely clients! Julia King talks about why she loves to volunteer for our Group in #Wisbech. #blindness #sightloss #VisualImpairement #volunteering #VolunteersWeek #CamsightCommunity #TheBigHelpOut Video description: A lady talks to the camera wearing a pink and striped shirt, she has short hair and glasses, she is smiling as she talks about why she loves volunteering for the charity.

What better day to announce our partnership with Motability Foundation than today, 5 June, also being celebrated as World Environment Day! CamSight is delighted to share that, thanks to a successful award from Motability Foundation Community Transport Grant Programme, we are able to lease two Electronic Vehicles (EVs) to improve transport options available to blind and partially sighted people in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire. Our award of £152,484 has secured the vehicles for three years. Not only will they have huge environmental benefits but, importantly, it will help improve independence, wellbeing, and social inclusion for our clients by enabling them to remain an active part of their local community. Sara Fleming, Head of Business Development for CamSight, said: “We were thrilled when we found out we had been awarded a Community Transport Grant from the Motability Foundation, meaning we can develop and improve our community transport for our clients. Our commitment is always to provide a high-quality service to our service users, making sure we can help as many individuals to get to and from the appointments or services they need to access, as well as the Peer Support Groups and other activities we organise. Thank you Motability Foundation for helping CamSight to continue developing our services to best serve our community.” Lisa Jones, Motability Foundation's Director of Charitable Operations, said: “We’re delighted to award CamSight with this grant to expand transport services for blind and partially sighted people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. “This transport can be a lifeline to passengers, by supporting independent living, reducing isolation, and improving access to services. “Awarding grants to important local organisations like CamSight helps us to make an immediate difference to the transport needs of disabled people.” #WorldEnvironmentDay #ElectricVehicles #CommunityTransport #CommunitySupport #CambridgeCharity #PeerSupportGroups #SightLoss #Blindness #VisualImpairment #AccessibleTransport Motability Foundation Photo Description: Four ladies stand in front of a Mobility Foundation's Van branded in CamSight's colours and logo, one lady is dressed in blue to the left and has blonde hair, she smiles at the camera, the three older ladies stand to the right, one has a walking aid and the other two stand with shaded glasses on. They all smile and the sun is shining with a pretty cottage behind the vehicle.