The Website is specially designed to be fully accessible to sighted, partially sighted and blind visitors. Prevention of blindness RNIB gives grants and fellowships and purchases special equipment for research into the prevention of blindness. In 1962 it started the National Eye Donor Scheme to encourage people to donate their eyes after death for corneal grafting and other therapeutic purposes. Today it is a major distributor of the multi-organ donor card, which includes provision for eye donation, issued by the Department of Health. To publicise its services and promote awareness of the problems of visual impairment, RNIB has a range of publications designed for both blind and sighted people.
Speakers give talks and show videos all over the country.
The Public Information Service answers general enquiries and runs visual awareness training programmes. RNIB's Research Library is the largest collection of materials in the country on the subject of visual impairment. It offers a range of reference, loan and enquiry services, including sophisticated reading aids for visually impaired users. Over the past few years RNIB has established several Scottish-based services. These have combined to form RNIB Scotland which is committed to improving facilities and services for Scotland's 85,000 blind and partially sighted people.