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Goalball

December 12, 2024By

Sport Support for partially-sighted or blind children

Goalball is a sport specifically designed for blind and partially-sighted children and young people

Our donation of £5,000 will purchase football equipment for Goalball UK’s schools’ programme which aims to deliver goalball sessions to schools across the UK.

“This grant will allow us to support more children and young people who are blind or partially sighted to participate in sport and physical activity. It is well documented that this will also help with mental health.

”We are very grateful to the Axis Foundation who are supporting our mission for Goalball to empower people to live and play an active part in an inclusive society” –  Mark Winder, Chief Executive Officer at Goalball UK

Children and young people who are blind or partially sighted do not generally receive high quality PE at their schools. And Goalball UK aims to provide transformational opportunities so that they can now experience the challenge and joy of team-based sport.

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Fight Against Blindness

September 4, 2020By

Supporting children with sight loss and blindness

Fight Against Blindness offers genetic testing, and funds research to find treatments to cure eye disease. The charity also provides psychological support for children and families attending UK Hospital Eye Clinics and helps raise awareness of children’s eye disease.

The charity works at the Eye Clinic Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, the Oxford Eye Hospital (John Radcliffe), the Southampton Eye Unit (Southampton General Hospital), and Bristol Eye Hospital Children’s Unit.

The Axis Foundation has donated £8,460 to develop a Wheelie Ward Suitcase for use at Bristol Eye Hospital Children’s Unit to help the charity’s work supporting children with sight loss and blindness.

“We are delighted that the Axis Foundation are supporting our children” – Sarah Williams, Trustee, Fight Against Blindness

The suitcase will contain essential ophthalmic diagnostic equipment and is portable enabling clinicians to complete full assessments on children who have been admitted to hospital wards and cannot be attended to in the eye department because they are either on the paediatric intensive care units, are too unwell to travel in wheelchairs or are vulnerable to infection due to immune-suppression.

There is more about Fight Against Blindness here

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