Our Mission

North East Sight Matters objectives are charitable and combine a level of life skills training, to visually impaired youngsters, whilst encouraging social contact and exciting activities to promote independence, challenges and confidence building. 

We organise family events and activities to encourage support networks and friendships plus  opportunities that may not otherwise be accessible or available to this group. 

We are committed to:

• Work primarily with visually impaired children and young people 
• Offer a range of exciting activities to children and families affected by sight loss 
• Develop ongoing programmes of skills and social activities to improve self-confidence, increase support networks, form friendships and provide opportunities for young vision impaired people 
• Plan, develop and deliver informative and practical competence training so that children and young people can learn appropriate, safe, and adapted methods of valuable life skills 
• Arranging informative events for parents/carers and professionals
• Provide training and web-based learning platforms to a range of organisations and individuals