Vision Care For Homeless People

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Vision Care for Homeless People is a charity set-up to provide eyecare services to homeless and other vulnerable people in an accessible and friendly environment in which they feel safe, welcome and comfortable.

OUR OBJECTIVES:

To preserve, protect and promote the ocular health of homeless and vulnerable people in the UK who are unwilling or unable to access mainstream services available through the NHS by providing a comprehensive high quality service free at the point of use. This includes ocular health screening and the provision of spectacles that meets the immediate visual needs of our beneficiaries in a safe, accessible, friendly and comfortable environment.

WHAT WE DO:

We carry out a fully comprehensive eye examination and provide spectacles all totally free of charge. Homeless people are more vulnerable than the general population. They have a higher risk of being assaulted or having property stolen, so spectacles might be lost or broken beyond repair. 

OUR PRIORITIES:

We now have three centres in London and one in Birmingham. We have others under discussion in Brighton, Newcastle and Oxford. 

OUR ASPIRATIONS:

Our ultimate aim is to expand this service nationwide to all the major cities, so as to make a difference to as many homeless and vulnerable people as we can. We are actively working towards that.