The Scottish National Federation for the Welfare of the Blind has changed its name to the Scottish Council on Visual Impairment. The organisation is an umbrella body which has as its members representatives from local authorities and voluntary organisations both local and national and is unique in the UK in providing a forum where all [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Visibility and Dumfries and Galloway Association of the Blind to merge
As from April 2011 Dumfries and Galloway Association of the Blind (DGAB) will become part of Visibility. For the last three years DGAB, Visibility and Dumfries and Galloway Council have been working together to develop community based services for visually impaired people. Visibility has worked throughout the west of Scotland for over 150 years and [...]
Scotland’s first blind MSP
Holyrood has its first blind MSP, after Dennis Robertson claimed victory for the SNP at the May 5th elections by taking Aberdeenshire West from LibDem chief whip Mike Rumbles with a majority of over 4000. Dennis has been registered blind since the age of 11 and attended Edinburgh’s Royal Blind School. He qualified as a [...]