VISION 2020 (UK) Ltd

VISION 2020 UK is an umbrella organisation which facilitates greater collaboration and co–operation between organisations within the UK which focus on visual impairment and operate on a national, regional or international basis – VISION 2020 UK is a supporting member of the VISION 2020 Global Initiative.

VISION 2020 UKs objectives are:

To prevent avoidable blindness
To improve the quality of services to visually impaired people
To improve the training available to professionals providing advice and services
To improve communication between organisations within the VI Sector
To improve the availability of information to visually impaired people
To ensure that the voices of the visually impaired are heard when planning services and their opinions sought on key issues affecting their lives
To raise public awareness of the issues and problems relating to sight loss

In addition to the above, VISION 2020 UK will seek to provide a unified response on key issues affecting visually impaired people and to provide visual impairment sector representatives for consultation groups, working parties and project groups.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Vision2020UK
Twitter: @Vision2020UK

For the Scottish Strategy see link: Scotland