Welcome to Blind Veterans UK

Your support is helping blind veterans to rebuild their lives.

Losing your sight can be terrifying. Many blind veterans feel like their lives are over before they join our charity. They're helpless, hopeless and isolated, and think that they have no future.  

As one of our beneficiaries, Chris, says he went from being a "confident solider to not being able to make my own cup of tea".

And that's where Blind Veterans UK comes in. With your support, we are helping blind veterans to live independent, fulfilling lives after sight loss. 

Thanks to you, we can give thousands of veterans the lifelong care, training and support they need to adjust to their vision impairment.

You're helping veterans to rehabilitate.

You’re changing lives with technology.

Accessible technology can open up a whole new world for vision-impaired veterans. From being able to read their own post again to keeping in touch with loved ones, it allows our beneficiaries to regain their independence and privacy and, crucially, combat loneliness and isolation. 

With your support, our expert staff can train veterans on specially adapted devices that allow them to perform basic, everyday tasks that many of us take for granted. 

Thanks to donors like you, our beneficiaries of all generations are ordering their shopping and medication online, using internet banking, reading newspapers and video calling their families. 

When blind veteran Rob lost his sight in his early 20s, he feared his life was over. But we trained him on an accessible smartphone, which, he says, allowed him to be “part of society” again.