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This registered charity provides a way forward for blind and visually impaired people of North East Lincolnshire. Working both with service users and service providers, the organisation complements and supports existing services. They instigate new projects designed to meet the needs and requirements of visually impaired people, including raising awareness and offering innovative opportunities that enable access to activities and events which sighted people take for granted. Above all,  they work to combat the barriers of social isolation, to encourage participation, enhance community involvement, and offer independence and enhanced quality of life.

To engage learners in an innovative project, visiting tourist attractions and evaluating their suitability for blind and visually impaired people. Learners will identify issues around access, enjoyability, resources and facilities with a view to compiling a guide for other groups, websites and local people. The project will be divided into two workshops to plan the visits and discuss evaluation, drafting work and actual visits. The end product will be an informative and accurate guide for blind and visually impaired people

With support from a literacy, language or numeracy tutor and sighted volunteers, learners will select local tourist attractions to visit and evaluate. They will attend workshops before and after each visit, in order to plan, draft evaluation reports, decide on layout and format of the guide and what means of evaluation will be used to assess their suitability for the different levels of the disability. Learners will prepare reports and an evaluation for the organisation’s Newsletter and Website, and access digital cameras to include pictures in the guide. Learners will also liaise with a local production company and a video and editing group, with a view to interviews and filming for local television.

• The identification of basic skills needs amongst blind and visually impaired members of the organisation.
• Awareness raising throughout the community of North East Lincs., with volunteers and staff members achieving development and qualifications.
• A published guide to attractions, benefiting local and visiting blind and visually impaired and disabled people.
• Personal development of participants through involvement in learning basic skills but also through networking with other agencies.

• A minimum of 15 people to attain basic skills training.
• 5 learners to achieve accredited training.
• 2 people to achieve Level 2 9295.
• 6 people will achieve Unit 1 9295.
• If possible a basic skills study group will be set up in the Organisation’s Centre.