Durham 2025 Dates for Your Diary

LIVING WITH SIGHT LOSS COURSE
(Booking is Essential)
A two day course providing information and advice about living with sight loss.
10am – 3pm
7th & 8th May, Crook
16th & 17th July, Stanhope
3rd & 4th Sept, Barnard Castle

For further information and to book your place please call
Julie on 0191 5673939

Durham City Coffee Mornings

Sunderland and County Durham Royal Society for the Blind has now merged it’s monthly coffee mornings into Durham Visual Support & Macular, meaning that both can now use the same room in North Road Methodist Church. It will still take place every 2nd week of the month between 10AM and 12PM, but it will be on a Monday, when the Durham Visual Support & Macular meetings take place. Everyone, who used to attend the coffee mornings on Tuesdays will still be in attendance and the office will still arrange speakers for these meetings. These speakers will be announced as part of the monthly schedules.

We hope you will enjoy these newly merged meetings and make new friends, who don’t attend our weekly Monday meetings, but this will enable them to hopefully attend and be part of what we do in the future.

We are delivering Living with Sight Loss courses and other events throughout the year in the following venues:

The Masonic Hall, Stanley DH9 8AD
Day: 4th Tuesday of the month Time 1.00-3.00

January 28th The Louisa Centre Emma Lloyd-Edwards

February 25th Co-Op Wills and POA Jane Hudson

March 25th Durham Visual Support Macular Pauline Morford

St Marys & St Cuthberts Church Parish Centre, Chester Le Street

21st January 2025 – Welcome Back Chat
18th February 2025 – Stroke Association – Janet Nesbitt
18Th March 2025 – Thomas Pocklington Trust – Confirmed
15th April 2025 – Wiltshire Farm Foods – Confirmed
20th May 2025 – Air Ambulance – Confirmed
17th June 2025 – Durham Carers
15th July 2025 – Cancer Awareness – Confirmed
19th August 2025 – Macular Katherine Young
16th September 2025 – Dale, Charles Bonnet
21st October 2025 – RNLI Confirmed
18th November 2025 – RNIB Lewis Confirmed
16th December 2025 – TBC

Town Hall, Bishop Auckland

Events to be confirmed at this venue.

The course aims to provide information on all aspects relating to living with sight loss. The course includes sessions on a variety of topics. It also provides you with the opportunity to meet with others in a similar situation to share experiences and handy hints and tips. You are welcome to bring a family member or friend along.

If you are interested in attending any of the above courses and want to book a place or would like to learn more, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

If you or someone you know requires support and advice, we would love to hear from you, so why not contact us on the below numbers. We offer telephone support, home visits and appointments at Cecil Court .

Office: 0191 5673939