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Poppy’s inspiring journey to skiing success

Poppy Watton, 13, from Donaghcloney, who has a visual impairment, has for the third consecutive year become the Northern Ireland Senior School Girl Ski Champion at the Ski Club of Northern Ireland, with dreams of securing Olympic gold.

Posted Wednesday, 18 June 2025 News type: Press release

ECLO service wins prestigious AQS standard

RNIB’s flagship support service for people with sight conditions wins coveted quality standard.

Posted Thursday, 29 May 2025 News type: Press release

EastEnders airing visual impairment storyline

EastEnders is working with the Royal National Institute of Blind People on aa story centred around Lauren and Peter’s newborn son.

Posted Friday, 16 May 2025 News type: Press release

New Funding Boosts Platform for Scotland’s Young Blind Voices

A youth-led forum for blind and partially sighted young people has secured vital funding, enabling a new period of opportunity for young blind and partially sighted people across Scotland.

Posted Thursday, 15 May 2025 News type: News story

Blind astrophysicist inspires next generation

Eilidh Morrison (23), a physics graduate from Aberdeen and Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYP) was starstruck last month when she met her long-time inspiration, blind astrophysicist Dr Wanda Díaz-Merced.

Posted Monday, 14 April 2025 News type: News story News type: Press release

Charity urges change in attitudes towards mothers with sight loss

Ahead of Mother's Day (Sunday 30 March), leading sight loss charity the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has released research that shows the barriers faced by mothers with sight loss during pregnancy and into their first years of motherhood.

Posted Wednesday, 26 March 2025 News type: Press release

Read author Tom Palmer's World Book Day letter to editor

Posted Friday, 7 February 2025 News type: News story

Safer streets thanks to community campaign

A Macduff man has campaigned for safer streets by petitioning for a crossing outside the local primary school.

Posted Friday, 17 January 2025 News type: News story

RNIB World Book Day 2025 creative writing competition

As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we're delighted to announce our creative writing competition for children with a vision impairment.

Posted Friday, 10 January 2025 News type: News story

“Our whole approach is about access and equality,” says the secondary school championing inclusivity for students with - and without - vision impairment

RNIB’s Children, Young People, Families and Education (CYPFE) team visited the Toynbee School in Hampshire. Toynbee has a purpose-built Resource Base equipped to support the needs of pupils with vision impairment (VI), and RNIB was keen to see how this centre of excellence is enabling students with (VI) to thrive.

Posted Wednesday, 31 July 2024 News type: News story