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Blind Centre (Northern Ireland)
70 North RoadBelfast
BT5 5NJ
Tel: 028 90 500 999
Fax: 028 90 650 001
Web: www.bcni.co.uk
Best time to telephone: 9.30am - 5pm, Monday - Friday.
The Blind Centre (NI) provides services for blind and visually impaired people throughout Northern Ireland. Services include the following.
- Services: Day Support Centres mainly run for groups, including social rehabilitation, sporting and recreational activities, in Coleraine, Omagh and Belfast. Staff also provide some one-to-one services throughout Northern Ireland. This Befriending Service operates in 28 towns across Northern Ireland. Welfare Rights Service and Youth Programme to blind and visually impaired children. Eye Help Desk service at Ophthalmic Out-patients clinics in 5 rural hospitals
- Leisure Services: Holidays are provided for blind and visually impaired people from all age groups and their families and friends at a purpose-built chalet and activity centre in Lisnaskea, Fermanagh. They also have 45 social clubs operating on a weekly/fortnightly basis across Northern Ireland.
- Communication Services: A range of local material is transferred to tape or CD for use by blind and visually impaired people. This includes an in-house magazine, other local publications and information leaflets on benefits, local hospitals etc. They also produce local "Talking Books" onto audio tape - distributed through local branch libraries and mobile service to rural blind people.
- Research: Community based research programmes in partnership with health and academic bodies in Northern Ireland.
Checked: July 2006
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