Fundraising

How your money helps

Summary: Some of the costs involved in delivering RNIB's services.

• Delivering RNIB services
• Spending money, improving lives
• Life story
• How you can help

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Every day another 100 people start to lose their sight. Your support helps us rebuild lives devastated by sight loss.

Delivering RNIB services

• £1 produces a Braille, large print or audio catalogue to tell blind and partially sighted people about the latest products to make life easier.
• £8 helps to pay for a call to our Helpline, giving us time to listen and respond to each individual’s needs.
• £15 pays for an in-depth benefits check to ensure that a blind or partially sighted person is receiving all the help they are entitled to.
• £38 pays for RNIB to provide timely information about support and equipment to our members to enable them to get the most out of life.
• £50 covers an annual subsidy for one of our 40,000 subscribers to the Talking Books Service (in addition to the £76 annual subscription).
• £228 provides six sessions of emotional support or counselling from a qualified counsellor, to help someone come to terms with sight loss.
• £282 pays for a blind and partially sighted person to join in a weekly telephone befriending group, called Talk and Support, for a year.

• £400 pays for someone newly diagnosed as blind or partially sighted to attend a confidence-boosting Finding your feet weekend
• £1,100 enables a young person with sight problems to spend a week trying out new leisure activities, gaining independence and making new friends on an RNIB Vacation Scheme.

Spending money, improving lives

RNIB spends…

Over £12 million helping young people with sight problems get the best start in life by providing schools, colleges and a national support network for students, parents and education professionals.

Over £24 million helping improve employment opportunities for people of working age with sight problems by:

• creating technological solutions like talking computers, calculators and dictionaries
• providing support, advice and practical training
• working in partnership with other organisations.

Over £16 million helping older people with daily living and leisure activities through:

• services such as Talk and Support
• providing information in formats including braille, large print and audio cassette
• developing practical products such as liquid level indicators for making drinks safely, talking kitchen scales and training to help people live independently.

Over £10 million working to raise public awareness, through campaigning, information provision, influencing and training professional contacts. For example, Eye Test Action Day highlighted the link between smoking and sight loss.

For every pound, RNIB spends 87p directly helping blind and partially sighted people, 11p on raising more vital funds and 2p on administration.

Find out how your money helped to make a difference over the past year.

Life story

"My blindness has never stopped me wanting to be the best mum that I can be. RNIB has provided me with invaluable help since my daughter's birth. From practical day-to-day gadgets in the home to wider support and advice on helping us through the early years, I have always had somewhere to turn."
Kate, working Mum.

How you can help

Help us to continue to do our vital work. Make a difference - donate today!

Content author: fundraising@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 02/12/2008 17:10