< BackSight Matters Day - 29th Sept

Sight Matters Day 2010 promises to be a real eye opener!

How would you find your favourite restaurant, choose items from a menu, set the weights at your local gym or follow the plot of the latest box office movie if your eye sight was failing?

These are issues faced by thousands of people across Nottinghamshire every day when choosing how to spend their leisure time – issues which many of us take for granted.

Leisure

Sight Matters Day 2010 will focus on leisure and will take place on 29 September in Nottingham city centre. The day is a fantastic opportunity to find out more about visual impairment. There will be a whole host of fun and free activities for everyone to try. Activities will include taking a blind folded walk around an obstacle course with a guide dog, a thrilling display by Blind Judo and an exhibition packed full of the latest equipment to support people with sight loss.

Open to all

The Day is open to people living with sight loss, their relatives and friends and to those with no experience of visual impairment, but who would like to find out more.

Your Hosts

Sight Matters Day is hosted by the Nottinghamshire Low Vision Services Committee, which is made up of representatives from the Nottinghamshire Royal Society for the Blind, Nottingham City Council, Nottingham City Primary Care Trust, Nottinghamshire County Council, RNIB/Action for Blind People, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Guide Dogs for the Blind.

On The Day

The event will run from 10am until 3.30pm in the Old Market Square, Nottingham city centre and the Conference Centre, Trent University, Newton Building, Goldsmith Street, near to the Theatre Royal.