We have started a Friends of Sightline scheme that anyone can join to help the charity continue to provide telephone befriending for visually impaired people throughout England & Wales…
Friends of Sightline
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We-re hiring!
We’re hiring for a part-time Assistant Support Coordinator (1 day a week each Monday) to help connect people who are visually impaired with caring volunteers through weekly telephone calls.
This simple call can mean the world; offering conversation, companionship, and connection. How good would it be to be part of that?
This simple call can mean the world; offering conversation, companionship, and connection. How good would it be to be part of that?
Lee’s Sightline Story
Being a little bit older in age to Nora enables me to tell her how I have adapted over time with my sight loss. It doesn’t mean my life has ended; it’s not as terrible as I feared it would be and I am still here and enjoying my life and she is doing the same too…
Mark’s Sightline Story
As I get older, I find it more difficult forming new relationships. People have their own lives to lead, I live on my own and my family relationships are quite strained. Sightline’s Telephone Befriending Service provides me with friendship; I’m so grateful the service exists. It has given me the chance to form a new friendship.
Josh’s Sightline Story
Prior to volunteering with Sightline I wouldn’t have said I was a particularly confident person but the more calls I do, the more confident I feel as it has provided the opportunity for me to gain new skills…
Donations in memory of Eleanor Ridgeway
Sightline has been fortunate to be the beneficiary of donations in lieu of the late Eleanor Ridgeway, a former valued volunteer at Sightline. We are very grateful to Eleanor’s family for arranging these donations to the sum of £770.63.
Legacy gift
Sightline has recently received a kind legacy of £43,127.18 from the Will of the Late Nigel Moorhouse. Mr Moorhouse did not have any surviving next of kin and he decided that his estate be shared amongst various charities in northwest England…
Chief Executive Appointment
Sightline is very pleased to welcome Carl Hodge as he joins the charity as Chief Executive…
Taylor’s Sightline Story
I don’t ever imagine not speaking with Greg. We’ve been chatting just over a year now and I really hope that continues for a long time. I’d recommend the Sightline telephone befriending service to others; if you’re feeling lonely these calls really can make a difference and lift your spirits; I’m proof of that…
Phil’s Sightline Story
It’s been brilliant talking to Jake – he’s re-discovering lost confidence all the time – I just love the fact that I have played a small role in helping with the befriending calls. We don’t just discuss sight loss during our calls; I have a Guide Dog and he has just welcomed a new dog into the family home. We’re sharing funny stories about the dogs and he tells me how his new four legged friend gives him more routine and helps with getting out and about for walks etc…
