Sight Life

Sight Life (formerly Cardiff Institute for the Blind) provides a range of services across South Wales with the aim of ensuring blind and partially sighted people can enjoy an independent, active, and fulfilling social life.

We were set up in 1865, making us one of the oldest charities in Wales. In fact, we will celebrate our 150th anniversary in 2015! We are also very honoured to have rugby legend Sir Gareth Edwards as our President and Ceri Dupree as our patron.

We aim to locally support blind and partially sighted people to maintain or improve their physical and emotional wellbeing by providing advice and support to help people exercise, manage medication, eat healthily, increase confidence and self-esteem, give them a sense of security and future, and reduce incidents of falls and accidents.

We want people to enjoy independent and fulfilled lives by helping them to be part of a community, to take part in social and leisure activities, get out and about more, to be able and willing to shop alone, to visit friends, be digitally included, have more income and be able to manage money, to volunteer or work, and to take part in lifelong learning.

At our headquarters in Jones Court, Womanby Street, Cardiff, we have a products shop, IT training suite and an Activity Room, which is where many of our Cardiff clubs meet. You can also find many of the Cardiff and Vale team here, who can provide information, advice and an ear to listen.