Latest News

Visit this page often to keep up with all SVI’s news, events and gossip. You can check the date and time of all the forthcoming open meetings, and find out who the invited guests will be.  Monthly committee meetings will be listed too.

We will also publish news and details of events that we think will interest you. For example, information about the Annual General Meeting.  

We welcome your contributions. If you have any news that you think would be of interest to our members, or if you are organising an event, please let us know using the contact us form.

We welcome all your views - this website is for all our members to enjoy and hopefully by keeping in touch with us your views can be heard.

Headlines

Follow the links from the headlines below.

• Storytelling event a real success
• World Sight Day in Sandwell
• An invitation to attend our annual forum on 29 October.
• The summer edition of our newsletter is now on the site.
  Listen now, download the audio file, read the newsletter in Word, or as a pdf file
• Sandwell Talking Newspaper is now available on this site.
• Listen to some extracts from our June Open Meeting
  These audio tracks include information from the council's Vision Services.
• Find out about saving energy and saving money.
  This audio track from Warm Zone will tell give you lots of hints and tips.
• Listen to a feature about Extant theatre's recent forum at Wolverhampton Arena Theatre..
• SVI open meeting scheduled for 18 June.
  Find out more about forthcoming events in our calendar of events.
• Blind Dave sets off for his 7 marathons challenge
  Listen to our interview with Dave.
• News and views from our open meeting
  This news item tells you about our recent open meeting and gives links to further news and more in-depth information including: anti-social behaviour and changes coming up to Sandwell hospitals and great news about our newsletter.
• Find out more about Sandwell Central Library's new mp3 players
• Get involved in theatre with Black Country Touring and Exstant
• The reading revolution - why you should join your local library today
• Vision Services information days
• A tribute to Dr Roy Green
• Audio Description and Digital television switchover for blind and partially sighted people
• SVI membership grows
• Free call-back with BT
• Focus Facelift
• Don't miss that bus
• SVI Frolics
• Newsletter success
• Postcode lottery for macular disease (MD) prevention drugs
• Barriers to the employment of disabled people
• SVI in the Spotlight