Links to other organisations that support the blind and visually impaired
Wakefield District Council:
Sensory Impairment Team
Tel: 01977 723622
Social Care Direct (for emergency social care issues)
Tel: 0845 850 3503
National Societies:
RNIB – Royal National Institute of Blind People
PO Box 173, Peterborough PE2 6WS
Tel: 0303 123 9999
Email: helpline@rnib.org.uk
Website: www.rnib.org.uk
The Macular Disease Society
PO Box 1870, Andover, Hampshire SP10 9AD
Tel: 0845 241 2041
Email: info@maculardisease.org
Website: www.maculardisease.org
Guide Dogs,
Hillfields,
Burghfield Common
Reading,
Berkshire, RG7 3YG
Email: guidedogs@guidedogs.org.uk
Website: www.guidedogs.org.uk
British Wireless for the Blind Fund
10 Albion Place, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 5DZ
Tel: 01622 754757
Email: info@blind.org.uk
Website: www.blind.org.uk
Equipment supplier:
Cobolt Systems Ltd.
The Old Mill House, Mill Road, Reedham,
Norwich, NR13 3TL
Tel: 01493 700172
Email: sales@cobolt.co.uk
Website: www.cobolt.co.uk
Talking newspapers:
National Talking Newspapers and Magazines
National Recording Centre, Heathfield,
East Sussex TN21 8DB
Tel: 01435 866102
Email: info@tnauk.org.uk
Website: www.tnauk.org.uk
Wakefield Talking Newspaper
K. Micklethwaite (sec)
Tel: 01924 201000 (answerphone)
Email: contact@WakefieldTalkingNewspaper.org.uk
Website: www.wakefieldtalkingnewspaper.org.uk
Castleford and Pontefract Talking Newspaper
Mrs Mary Tyler, 13 Highland Close,
Pontefract, WF8 2JZ
Email: mary@i-can-cope-im-a-grandma.co.uk
Normanton Talking Newspaper for the Blind
Secretary: Donna Johnston
Tel: 01924 893794
Email: enquiries@normantontowncouncil.co.uk
Talking books:
Calibre Audio Library
Aylesbury, Bucks HP22 5XQ
Tel: 01296 432339
Email: enquiries@calibre.org.uk
Website: www.calibre.org.uk
RNIB - details under National Societies
Local Societies:
Carers Wakefield and District
25 King Street, Wakefield, WF1 2SR
(providing information, support and advice to unpaid carers)
Tel: 01924 305544
Email: info@carerswakefield.org.uk
Website:
www.carerswakefield.org.uk
Visionary (National Association of Local Societies
for the Visually Impaired)
Tel: 0208 417 0942
Email: visionary@visionary.org.uk
Website: www.visionary.org.uk