Kingston Upon Thames Association for the Blind

Kingston Upon Thames Association for the Blind also known as KAB, has been supporting and providing services for blind and partially sighted residents of all ages since 1966.

Contact details

Services

  • Advice and advocacy
  • Campaigning and research and representation
  • Coaching: Training and volunteering and employment support
  • Community Link
  • Financial assistance and benefits guidance
  • Health and social care
  • Links into statutory and voluntary services
  • One-to-one support
  • Pathways tailored to each individual’s needs and aims
  • Practical and emotional support
  • Social contact and peer support
  • Sport and social and cultural activities
  • Training and volunteering and employment support
  • help adapting to life with little or no sight help with light administration and form filling

Boroughs this organisation works in

  • Kingston upon Thames

About this organisation

Kingston Upon Thames Association for the Blind also known as KAB, has been supporting blind and partially sighted residents of all ages since 1966. Empowering individuals living with sight loss, to lead independent and fulfilled lives in Kingston upon Thames and the surrounding areas.

We do this through a program of social activities, support groups, workshops, services including:
social lunches, chair based exercises, swimming, cycling, ten pin bowling and indoor bowls. we run Living Well with Sight Loss workshops, provide a form filling and benefit service.

KAB also works to prevent avoidable sight loss by promoting eye health messages to the public at large.

KAB a force for positive change

Staff, Trustees, members and volunteers all work together to make a positive difference in Kingston.
raising awareness of issues and barriers faced by disabled residents, and offer solutions to make Kingston more accessible and a fairer place for people of all ages living with sight loss to play, study, work and live in.

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