Events

Finding Your Feet

Type: Conferences
Location: The Gateway Centre, 71 London Rd Liverpool, Merseyside, L3 8HY
Region: North West England | Map: Google Location Map

Starts: Monday 9th May 2011 at 12:00am
Ends: Wednesday 11th May 2011 at 12:00am

Finding Your Feet is a specialised programme run by Action for Blind People for anyone who is finding it difficult to come to terms with losing their sight, allowing those involved to explore, discuss and better understand the impact of sight loss.
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Conference - Preventing sight loss, what can you do?

Event organiser: RCN Ophthalmic Forum and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Type: Conferences
Location: Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RN
Region: Greater London | Map: Google Location Map

Starts: Tuesday 14th June 2011 at 9:00am
Ends: Tuesday 14th June 2011 at 4:00pm

This event is organised by the RCN Ophthalmic Forum and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. This one-day conference is an opportunity for you to come together with other practitioners and managers within the field of ophthalmology to share perspectives and discuss innovative approaches....Continue reading Conference - Preventing sight loss, what can you do?

VISION UK 2011: featuring Techshare

Event organiser: Vision 2020 UK
Type: Conferences
Location: Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London SW1P 3EE
Region: Greater London | Map: Google Location Map

Starts: Thursday 16th June 2011 at 12:00am
Ends: Thursday 16th June 2011 at 12:00am

This event is for professionals working to develop, deliver or commission eye care services and assistive technologies, particularly in the health, social care and the voluntary sectors. The day will focus on the changing external environment, the role of the Big Society, commissioning changes and the recent advances in technology. It will incorporate the event formally known as Techshare.

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Frontrunner - residential leadership course

Type: Conferences
Location: London
Region: Greater London | Map: none

Starts: Wednesday 6th July 2011 at 12:00am
Ends: Friday 8th July 2011 at 12:00am

This free course provides a rich mix of self-directed learning, facilitated workshops and peer-to-peer learning groups. It will introduce you to leaders you might never otherwise meet and as you see how they lead in places you are not normally able to visit. You will benefit from a dynamic and energised learning environment where there are no exams or assessments and your learning objectives are your own....Continue reading Frontrunner - residential leadership course

Sight Village

Type: Conferences
Location: New Bingley Hall, Hockley Circus, B18 5BE
Region: West Midlands | Map: Google Location Map

Starts: Tuesday 12th July 2011 at 10:00am
Ends: Thursday 14th July 2011 at 4:00pm

Sight Village is a free event for blind and partially sighted people, which will be held in Birmingham between 12 and 14 July 2011. Action for Blind People and many other organisations including RNIB, National Talking Newspapers and Magazines will be attending.
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Macular Society Conference

Event organiser: Macular Society
Type: Conferences
Location: Park Plaza Victoria London 239 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1EQ
Region: Greater London | Map: Google Location Map

Starts: Saturday 17th September 2011 at 12:00am
Ends: Saturday 17th September 2011 at 12:00am

Annual conference for Macular Society members....Continue reading Macular Society Conference

Sight Village Manchester

Type: Conferences
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Blackfriars Street, Manchester, M3 2EQ
Region: North West England | Map: Google Location Map

Starts: Tuesday 27th September 2011 at 10:00am
Ends: Tuesday 27th September 2011 at 3:30pm

Sight Village is a free event for blind and partially sighted people, which will be held in Manchester on 27 September 2011. Action for Blind People and many other organisations including RNIB, National Talking Newspapers and Magazines will be attending....Continue reading Sight Village Manchester

Glaucoma Patient Day - Bridging the Gap

Type: Conferences
Location: Central Hall Westminster Storey's Gate London SW1H 9NH
Region: Greater London | Map: Google Location Map

Starts: Saturday 1st October 2011 at 10:00am
Ends: Saturday 1st October 2011 at 5:00pm

Moorfields Eye Hospital and National Institute for Health Research is hosting a free one-day event on different aspects of glaucoma. The uniqueness of this day is that glaucoma patients have set the topics and agenda and Moorfields hope it will be a day for patients and professionals to learn from each other. Their glaucoma patients have identified key topics, such as diagnosis, treatment and its side-effects, driving, visual impairment registration, heritability and current research as being important for the understanding of this condition and its implications. There will be a panel of glaucoma specialists and patients, who will be speaking on the day....Continue reading Glaucoma Patient Day - Bridging the Gap

Visionary 2011 Conference - Supporting Each Other

Type: Conferences
Location: University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD.
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber | Map: Google Location Map

Starts: Tuesday 4th October 2011 at 12:00am
Ends: Thursday 6th October 2011 at 12:00am

The theme for this years’ Visionary conference is Supporting Each Other and the conference will identify key ways that organisations and individuals interested in sight loss can support each other and work better together to help blind and partially sighted people.

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