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Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind, The (SRSB)

Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind (SRSB) provides opportunity, support, friendship and services to blind partially sighted people in Sheffield, helping them to achieve whatever they wish to do and whatever they aspire to be. SRSB is a registered charity..

In the Community
Many of our services are delivered within the community, across Sheffield, including in people's own homes and are supported by the facilities at our Mappin Street Centre and our Residential Care Home in Crosspool. The services available are:

  • Community Advice Officers - SRSB has a team of 9 Community Advice Officers who offer a comprehensive support and advice service to our clients in the community.
  • Eye Clinic Liaison Officer - SRSB's Eye Clinic Liaison Officers are a point of contact at the hospital to provide information and advice to blind and partially sighted people, family members and carers at the time they are given a diagnosis about their sight loss.
  • Postal activity packs
  • Telecontact - We aim to contact our clients by phone every six to twelve months. Volunteers make a courtesy call to check that the client is well and establish if they require any further support.
  • Telefriends
  • Befriending
  • Computer support.

At our centre

  • Sheffield Cafe VIPs - Sheffield's Cafe VIPs is open from 10am to 3pm.
  • Sheffield Coffee Mornings
  • Sheffield and Rotherham Cuppa and Quiz
  • Sheffield Souper Special - have a soup and a roll
  • Evening entertainers
  • Sheffield Tech and equipment drop in days
  • Equipment advice - Our Equipment Advisor offers advice on an extensive range of products, all designed to help people with sight loss maintain their independence. He is available Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 1:30pm.
  • Technology training
  • Health and beauty room
  • Look ahead courses.


Emotional wellbeing

  • Emotional support 
  • Counselling and psychotherapy
  • Life ahead support.


Sport and leisure
Sheffield Blind Archery Group, Virtual book club, curling, boccia, cycling, crown green bowling, snooker, cricket, day trips, football, horse riding, writing group (Mappin Writers), painting, walking, swimming and more...

Self Help and Support Groups
SRSB/RSS encourage people with specific sight and/or hearing loss conditions to meet on a regular basis to share experiences, access information specifc to their circumstances etc. Current groups are:

  • SRSB Charles Bonnet Syndrome Support group 
  • Stroke Support group
  • Peer support groups and more....

Training

  • Technology
  • Braille


See more services on our website.

Time details

Monday-Friday 8.30am-4.30pm

Staffing arrangements/training to support children or young people with SEND

Staffing: , Our Whirlow L.I.F.E. programme is developed and run by our educational team. All staff are either qualified to Level 5 or are working towards a level 5 teaching qualification, have a wide range of experience and qualifications in animal care and agriculture and all staff have extensive experience in working with children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. All our staff undertake regular enhanced DBS checks. Many of our learners attend with personal assistants. At the moment Whirlow Hall Farm Trust cannot supply personal assistants so this would need to be organised by parent/carers in advance. We aim to keep our group size between six and eight learners.  Training:

Contact information

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Address

SRSB, 5 Mappin Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 4DT