ICT Sessions take place on a Monday and Thursday 9.30am - 12.30 pm.

These are run at the moment by John England with the help of a volunteer.

Anyone interested please contact the Resource Centre. 

Our latest event was on Saturday, 12th June which was our Welcome Day and Summer Fayre.  We were very lucky with the warm sunny weather.  The Volunteers on the stalls were very busy selling plants, fancy goods, children's books, games and toiletries  The tombola and bottle stalls were very popular.

The Day Centre Volunteers supplied tea, coffee and cakes when people needed a rest and a pick-me-up Gaelic coffee.

The total fund-raised was £800.

The Resource Centre had several users very interested in the computers and the studio.

We had a very pleasant day at the Memorial Park on Sunday, 14th May for the Walkathon.  The sun shone and we had 15 walkers and friends of the Resource Centre take part.  Yvonne North and Pat Proom were our champion walkers completing the most laps of the park.

 A special thanks to our sponsors who helped us raise the amazing total of £1,000.

 Jim Cunningham MP: Jim using IT software at the Centre

A Massive Thank You to the Coventry Telegraph, Barclays Bank and all those who voted for Coventry Society for the Blind in the recent Barclay's Community Chest Awards.  Thanks to your votes, the Centre received £1000 for our ongoing work supporting people with a visual impairment in the Coventry area.  One of our IT centre users, Yvonne, kindly nominated the Society for the financial award and we were shortlisted as one of twenty local charities who Telegraph readers then voted for.  Helen Young, Centre Manager, and Robin Decadt collected the cheque from Barclays on the High Street

The Coventry Telegraph, in conjunction with Barclays Community Chest funding programme, have shortlisted Coventry Society for the Blind as one of twenty local charities in the running to receive a cash award that would enable us to update our IT equipment which is used weekly by thirty blind and partially sighted people.

Join in the public consultation period for the proposed closure of post offices in Birmingham, Coventry and Warwickshire, which begins on June the 24th.  Older people’s charity Help the Aged is urging people to have a say in what happens to their local community post office by responding to the consultation.  The Charity is providing a detailed briefing pack for people in the area who wish to respond.

Helen Mullan, Sam Young and Lee Gordon were amongst over 150 runners who took part in a UK Vision 5k Race on Sunday 18th May in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham.  The three ran to raise money for Coventry Society for the Blind and all finished in impressive times, with Lee and Sam finishing in the top five competitors and Helen finishing second of the women runners.   Singer Paul Young started the race, which consisted of three laps around Cannon Hill Park, and the weather stayed bright to the relief of the ru

Here to Help now available to even more people:

RNIB has received continued funding for 2008 from British Gas for the 'Here to Help' project, the award-winning energy efficiency programme launched in 2002.  And now even more people can apply for the scheme which offers free home insulation, worth around £500, and free RNIB products and services for people with sight problems.

Coventry Society for the Blind is continually seeking to provide the best possible service to all our Transcription customers.  The Transcription Service, which converts information into a variety of accessible formats, including Braille, large print and audio, has always provided a fast and cost effective service with quality guaranteed.