Blind or partially sighted centres, North East 

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Blind and partially sighted

Barnsley - Batley - Chesterfield  - Cleethorpes - Gainsborough - Harrogate - Hartlepool - Keighley - Leeds -Louth - Morpeth - Rotherham - Scarborough - Scunthorpe -Selby - Sheffield - York

 

Northumberland County Blind Association

Rievers House, Staithes Lane, Morpeth NE61 1TD
Contact number: Mr Penny Forster

• Telephone number: 01670 514316

Specialist advice for people who are blind, 9:00 - 4:00 daily.

Scarborough Blind & Partial Sighted Society

183 Dean Road, Scarborough YO12 7JH
Contact name: Yvonne Jephson

• Telephone number: 01723 354417
  Email: sightinfo@scarblind.wanadoo.co.uk 

Advice, equipment and  activities. Open 10:00 - 16:00, Monday to Friday

Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind

5 Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT
Contact name: Mr S Hambleton

• Telephone number: 0114 272 2757

Open Access

Dewsbury/Batley Society for the blind

The Whitfield Centre, 180 Soothill Lane, Batley WF17 6HP
Contact name: Hilary Schreiner

• Telephone number: 01924 445222

Advice/ equipment/ activities/ home visits. Please telephone first to make an appointment as visits to the centre are by appointment only.

Harrogate and District Partial Sighted Society

23 East Parade, Harrogate HG1 5LF
Contact name: Anne Worden

• Telephone number: 01423 565915

Advice and information. Tuesday - Friday 10:00 - 12:00 and other times by appointment only.

Keighley and district association for the blind

1 Albert St, Keighley BD21 2AT
Contact name: Kevin Baldwin

• Telephone number: 01535 602354
  Email: enquiries@keighleyblind.org 
  Website: www.keighleyblind.org

By appointment only. Please telephone first to make an appointment, access is Monday - Friday 10 - 4 and some Saturdays

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