Living with sight loss (Lisburn area) - six week confidence building course
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB NI)
If you’re living with sight loss this confidence building course could provide the practical and emotional support you need to face the future with confidence. (Open to anyone across Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland).
Whether you’ve just been diagnosed with an eye condition affecting your sight, or you’ve experienced sight loss for a while, this course provides an opportunity to meet and connect with other people in a similar situation and will provide information, advice and practical skills for anyone who has sight loss as well as their family and friends.
Richard Craig, RNIB Confidence Building Coordinator says: “For someone newly diagnosed with sight loss, the future can seem very daunting and scary at first. But losing your sight doesn’t mean losing your independence.
Our courses are about boosting confidence, and learning new skills and techniques to come to terms with sight loss and live independently.
Friends and family are also welcome to attend as we appreciate sight loss affects all aspects of a person’s life – including those closest to them.
The course comprises of a combination of facilitated sessions and talks about what help and support is available and how it can be accessed. A range of different themes are covered including: emotional support and wellbeing, assistive technology, eye health, peer support and leisure time, getting around outside and daily living.
- Advice services
- Carers
- Children and families
- Community development
- Community relations
- Disability
- Health and wellbeing
- Men
- Older people
- Race/ethnicity
- Rural development
- Sport/recreation
- Transport
- Women
- Young people
Date and Time
- -
Location
Lagan Valley Island
Lisburn
BT27 4RL
United Kingdom
Contact Details
To find out more and book a place, please contact:
Richard Craig, RNIB Confidence Building Coordinator
Telephone: 028 9033 4144
Email: [email protected]
More Information
These Living With Sight Loss courses are being run through the 'Need to Talk' project- a five-year project (2017 - 2021) delivered through a partnership between RNIB in Northern Ireland and Scotland, and Fighting Blindness in the Republic of Ireland. Through confidential counselling and confidence building services, we’ll help you face the future with confidence.
Supported by EU INTERREG VA programme
Living with sight loss (Lisburn area) - six week confidence building course
More like this
Breakthrough Digital
Nomad Digital Services and SolutionsOnline / VirtualSeminarTraining/AdviceWorkshopAn exclusive, complimentary and interactive workshop for community and voluntary organisations ran by local technology company Nomad Digital. Specialising in developing a digital strategies and leveraging tools in a cost effective, and sustainable way. Sign up below!- - -NEA - NEW COURSE - Introduction to Domestic Renewable Low Carbon Technologies (Level 2 Award – CQ11641/001)
National Energy Action (NEA) NIOnline / VirtualSeminarTraining/AdviceWorkshopThe UK government set out a target, enshrined in the Climate Change Act (2008), to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the whole of the UK by 2050. Decarbonising homes is central to achieving that target and there is an urgent need to address the carbon emissions produced in heating and powering domestic properties. While the electricity powering lighting and appliances is decarbonising fast, the majority of homes still rely on burning fossil fuels for heating, hot water and cooking. This course will provide an introduction to the role domestic scale renewable technologies can play in reducing carbon emissions. It will provide a non-technical explanation of how the technologies work, the factors to consider when installing these technologies, costings, potential carbon savings and their advantages and drawbacks.- - -NEA - NEW COURSE - Introduction to Domestic Renewable Low Carbon Technologies (Level 2 Award – CQ11641/001)
National Energy Action (NEA) NIOnline / VirtualSeminarTraining/AdviceWorkshopThe UK government set out a target, enshrined in the Climate Change Act (2008), to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the whole of the UK by 2050. Decarbonising homes is central to achieving that target and there is an urgent need to address the carbon emissions produced in heating and powering domestic properties. While the electricity powering lighting and appliances is decarbonising fast, the majority of homes still rely on burning fossil fuels for heating, hot water and cooking. This course will provide an introduction to the role domestic scale renewable technologies can play in reducing carbon emissions. It will provide a non-technical explanation of how the technologies work, the factors to consider when installing these technologies, costings, potential carbon savings and their advantages and drawbacks.- - -CPD Certified training course - Recruiting People with Convictions in Northern Ireland
NIACROOnline / VirtualSeminarTraining/AdviceWorkshopThis 2-hour online training course is designed to assist employers in developing safe, fair, and consistent recruitment practices and better understand what having a conviction means when it comes to employment. It will help them to ensure compliance with legislative requirements, assess risks, dispel myths concerning people with convictions, and enable employers to make informed decisions when deciding whether to employ people with convictions.- - -