Gardening, sewing using the telephone or playing games are other activities which may be made possible by finding the answer in the Resource Centre. With over 150 different pieces of equipment, updated regularly, most visitors, whether visually impaired themselves or a friend or family member, find something useful. The increase in visitors and value of sales show that the Resource Centre provides a much needed and used service. Information Service Information is important. Information enables choice.
Information needs to be provided in a way blind and partially sighted people can access it.
These enquiries may have been from individual visually impaired people, from other organisations, from care staff in Nursing Homes, from relatives or friends. Newsletter - 1000 copies sent out every three months, in large print, tape, Braille and more recently on our website. The newsletter keeps members up to date with new equipment, changes in benefits, new services and activities. Radio - our regular Blind Spot on Radio York is broadcast every Thursday and has brought many enquiries from listeners in York and North Yorkshire. Our Information pack, in print and on tape, is given free of charge to every person who is newly registered as blind or partially sighted.