Awareness training for Rivers Trust

Three members of staff from the North Wales Rivers Trust -Ymddiriedolaeth Afonydd Gogledd Cymru joined our visual impairment awareness training course to learn how to work together with people living with sight loss.

The course leaders were Dafydd Eckley and Anest Jeffery – both rehabilitation officers with Cymdeithas Deillion Gogledd Cymru - North Wales Society of The Blind.

Dafydd explained that the Society's function is to help to maximise the visual abilities of both children and adults.

He gave details about some of the many eye conditions that exist and the help that is available to everyone.

Anest explained that the Society’s rehabilitation workers are able to provide support to clients in their own homes or at our centre on Stryd Fawr, Bangor.

Anest and Dafydd showed the various equipment available to people living with sight loss before giving everyone the opportunity to have a practice session guiding a person experiencing sight loss by wearing a blindfold.

The feedback from the North Wales Rivers Trust -Ymddiriedolaeth Afonydd Gogledd Cymru was very positive.

They said: “Huge thanks to the for training some of our staff in sighted guided and awareness today.

“It was a really informative course and it was great to learn more about their work and what we can do to make volunteer events and rivers in general more accessible to people with sight loss.”
Cymdeithas Deillion Gogledd Cymru - North Wales Society of The Blind offers similar awareness training courses to any organisation, company, society etc. who want to know more about working with people living with sight loss.

If you would like to know more, please contact Dafydd Eckley on 01248 353604 or admin@nwsb.org.uk or come and see us for a chat at our office at 325, Stryd Fawr, Bangor, Gwynedd.