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Blind Low Vision NZ Updates
- A life-changing partnership
- A one-of-a-kind Braille Collaboration for New Zealand
- Abel Tasman National Tramp
- An improved way for new clients to request services
- Announcing the Blind Foundation’s 2018 STAR Awards finalists
- Assisted voting information
- Bay of Plenty Blind Sports Festival
- Behind the scenes with Blind Foundation National Contact Centre Advisor Ivan Dodds
- Blind Foundation business planning meeting
- Blind Foundation Chief Executive to step down after 12 years
- Blind Foundation co-produces the first accessible interactive audiobook in New Zealand for people who are blind or low vision.
- Blind Foundation Engagement Roadshow 2016 – North Island
- Blind Foundation Engagement Roadshow 2017
- Blind Foundation Guide Dog Facts
- Blind Foundation library service now open to all Kiwis with a print disability.
- Blind Foundation needs wider funding base – Rick Hoskin
- Blind Foundation partners with Penguin Random House
- Blind Foundation Pop Up Office coming to Alexandra
- Blind Foundation Tandem Bike Rides
- Blind Foundation to develop a new voice platform for the internet
- Blind Low Vision NZ equipment services refreshed to improve experience
- Blind Rugby Launch
- Blind sector applauds NZ government’s progress on the Marrakesh Treaty
- Blind Week a chance to give back for Clem
- Board Directors announced
- Board Elections 2016
- Booklink new version coming out soon
- Candidate Information Day for 2016 RNZFB Board Elections
- Candidate Information Day for 2018 RNZFB Board Elections
- Celebrating a milestone: Blind Foundation receives the Accessibility Tick.
- Celebrating Helen Keller Communication Day
- Celebrating Helen Keller Communication Day
- Chairman’s Award 2016
- Christmas closures
- Christmas Cookies
- Completing a marathon
- Consumer SEED– Build Your Leadership Skills – applications closing soon!
- Don’t judge what you see
- End of an era
- Events coming up in early 2018
- Expressions of interest for TIS training sessions
- Farewell to our colleague Neil Jarvis!
- First affordable braille reader launched
- Five point plan to improve digital accessibility
- Future political leaders tackle online accessibility
- Get your applications in for the Kids Summer Camp!
- Good things happening in the community
- Guide dogs find homes with Fiona
- Guide Dogs survey results will help inform our five year business plan
- How to spot changes in eye health.
- In memory of George Phiskie, a Blind Foundation icon
- Insight Outward Bound course 2017
- International Experts visit the Blind Foundation.
- International Volunteer Day- thanks to all our amazing volunteers!
- Join us and Let’s Talk
- Join us and Let’s Talk
- Join us for Helen Keller Communication Day
- Kay’s “friend” inspires poem
- Launch of the Protect Your Eyesight brochure
- Let’s celebrate sign language
- Let’s talk books: Rolling out the Alexa Smart Speaker.
- Light Nelson Festival audio described
- Māori Language Week 2017
- Marrakesh Treaty one step closer
- Meet Leeanne Wojtowicz, Adaptive Communications Instructor
- Meet Yulie Jung
- National Volunteer Week: Recognising the Blind Foundation’s generous volunteers
- National Volunteer Week: Recognising the Blind Foundation’s generous volunteers
- New Appointment to RNZFB Board of Directors
- New Blind Foundation office opened in Kapiti Coast.
- New Blind Foundation website
- New Board Directors announced
- New Board Directors Announcement
- New Swiss low-vision watches now in stock at the Blind Foundation
- New Zealand Blind Rugby team makes history with first ever international test match.
- North Island Regional Tramp
- November South Island Tramp
- Out and about in the lower South Island
- Outward Bound course for Blind Foundation clients- 3 spots remaining!
- Peer Mentoring Programme – Christchurch Pilot
- Planning for Christmas? Listen to the entertaining second episode of ‘Perspectives’ now
- Planting the SEEDs for young leaders
- Premium retirement village to be built
- RNZFB 2016 Board Elections
- RNZFB Annual General Meeting 2016
- Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Act 2002 Repeal
- Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Board Elections 2017
- Sharing the gift of reading for 25 years
- Ski day out
- STAR award winners
- STAR Awards 2018 nominations open
- Strategic Plan 2020-2024
- Take on the 7 Day Challenge in 2017!
- Taupo 2018 Kids Camp: Applications closing soon!
- Taupo Summer Camp 2017
- That Blind Woman to co-present Arts Access Awards
- The 7 Day Challenge
- The Blind Foundation to welcome new Chief Executive John Mulka
- The Blind Foundation Year in Review 2016 requests
- Top Christmas gift ideas
- Transitioning to Blind Low Vision NZ
- Unexpected Crew Swap makes our services headline news
- Upcoming Equipment Display Days
- Video: New Zealand joins the Marrakesh Treaty
- Vote by telephone dictation voting in the 2017 General Election
- Working together to make public transport accessible for all.
- Youth Council voting is now open
- Youth feedback request
- Youth SEED Leadership Programme 2016
Community
- 7 day challenge
- 97-year-old says Alexa smart speaker ‘enables me to read again’
- A good start to spin
- A Passion for Talking Books
- A winter ride
- Access Matters: 3 down, 3 to go.
- Accessible Streets package disappointing for blind and low vision citizens
- Adaptive technology allows student to keep pace with his peers
- Adjusting to sight loss with humour: Josephine, 82
- Alexa makes a difference in Brenda’s life.
- Amblers celebrate their two-year anniversary
- Arts Access Awards 2016
- At work with Fatima Akehurst
- At work with Felicity Hutcheson
- At work with Latesha
- Attitude Awards finalists
- Auckland Arts Festival’s accessible programme for 2018
- Auckland Transport (AT) Total Mobility scheme and SuperGold update
- Auckland Southern New Network swings into action
- Bay of Plenty Blind Sports Festival
- Be part of history: Register for Nelson’s two day advocacy training programme
- Behind the scenes at the Touch Tour- ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by the Royal New Zealand Ballet 3/09/17
- Behind the scenes with Blind Foundation National Contact Centre Advisor Ivan Dodds
- Benny’s walking groups
- Blind employment gap needs focus
- Blind Foundation Chief Executive to step down after 12 years
- Blind Foundation Engagement Roadshow 2016 – North Island
- Blind Foundation Engagement Roadshow 2017
- Blind Foundation hosts international experts
- Blind Foundation member encourages the blind community to try fishing.
- Blind Foundation partners with Penguin Random House
- Blind Foundation Star Awards 2019 – nominations open now
- Blind Foundation’s online library service now available for Android
- Blind gardening
- Blind Low Vision NZ equipment services refreshed to improve experience
- Blind Mice – see how they walk
- Blind or low vision children can receive a braille response from Santa this Christmas
- Blind sector applauds NZ government’s progress on the Marrakesh Treaty
- Blind sector celebrates step closer to Marrakesh Treaty
- BookLink now available in the App Store
- Braille Mail April 2016
- Braille Music Retreat brings community together
- Breaking down blindness barriers
- Bringing the Australian Open to life for blind and low vision spectators
- Celebrating a milestone: Blind Foundation receives the Accessibility Tick.
- Chairman’s Award 2016
- Chantelle encourages anyone who wants to learn how to cook to ‘give it a go’
- Comedian gives insight into blind culture
- Community spirit enabled tandem biking couple to complete a ‘journey of a lifetime’
- Congratulations to 2018 New Years honours recipients
- Consumer SEED– Build Your Leadership Skills – applications closing soon!
- COVID-19 Blind Low Vision NZ response.
- E-scooters: Your voices making a difference
- Employment Services help Jill rediscover a sense of purpose
- Farewell to our colleague Neil Jarvis!
- Five point plan to improve digital accessibility
- Five tips to improve your digital accessibility
- Get your applications in for the Kids Summer Camp!
- Getting dotty on World Braille Day 2019
- Getting muddy at the Tough Guy and Gal Challenge
- Glaucoma: The silent thief of sight
- Good in the Hood 2016
- Good in the hood is back again for 2017!
- Guide Dogs survey results will help inform our five year business plan
- Happily-ever-after for Tauranga Blind Foundation client
- Helping hand at Guide Dogs
- Honouring Braille: How A 200 Year Old Invention Paves The Way For Literacy for the Vision Impaired Today
- How I got my power back baking blind
- In memory of George Phiskie, a Blind Foundation icon
- Information relating to the use of masks
- International Volunteer Day 2018: Thank you to our volunteers
- International Women’s Day 2019: Gender imbalance for blind and partially sighted women deserves attention
- Invitation to complete community survey from Auckland Disability Law.
- It’s never too late to challenge yourself
- It’s time for access legislation: Let’s make 2020 the year we advance human rights.
- Join us and Let’s Talk
- Join us and Let’s Talk
- Join us for Helen Keller Communication Day
- Kay’s “friend” inspires poem
- Keeping safe and navigating covid-19
- Lance Girling-Butcher named first SuperSenior Champion
- Launch of the Protect Your Eyesight brochure
- Leading-IT
- Let’s talk books: Rolling out the Alexa Smart Speaker.
- Life-changing experience at Outward Bound
- Light Nelson Festival audio described
- Lighting up lives in Vietnam
- Lockdown Stories: Thomas Bryan shares some tech tips
- Loie leads the way
- Māori Language Week 2017
- Marrakesh Treaty one step closer
- Martine Abel-Williamson presents at the National Federation of the Blind
- Mary Fisher applauds a step towards equality on Human Rights Day
- Meet Leyna Coleman, Braille Proof Reader
- Meet Marcel Oats
- National Volunteer Week: Recognising the Blind Foundation’s generous volunteers
- National Volunteer Week: Recognising the Blind Foundation’s generous volunteers
- New challenges to conquer for Hamilton’s Shannon Cleave.
- New documentary about blind card magician Richard Turner
- New Swiss low-vision watches now in stock at the Blind Foundation
- New Zealand Blind Organisations Statement Re: COVID 19 – the way we are going to get through this is together.
- Notes from a Canadian lakeside
- Observations of a volunteer
- Onkyo Braille Essay Contest
- Online shopping and financial assistance
- Optometry Students get the lowdown on low vision
- Orchestra Wellington season 2016
- Outward Bound course for Blind Foundation clients- 3 spots remaining!
- Pat’s cheese scones
- Peer Mentoring Programme – Christchurch Pilot
- Peer Mentoring Programme- Blind Low Vision NZ clients invited to apply
- People who are blind or have low vision can cast a secret vote
- Planting the SEEDs for young leaders
- Prize for blind adventurers and creators: applications now open!
- Prominent international disability advocate David Lepofsky visits New Zealand
- Race results phoneline
- Raising awareness on albinism
- Reading a breeze with BookLink
- Renee writes jingle to promote braille’s ‘vitality and importance’
- Rotary Camp highlights
- Seeking safety from e-scooters on our footpaths
- Sharing the gift of reading for 25 years
- Ski day out
- Smart Speakers: Using my voice to open the door to information, goods and services
- SPCA advise the following for all animal owners this fireworks
- St John Medical Alarm: Discount now available
- STAR award winners
- Student Volunteer Week 2016
- Student Volunteer Week: Celebrating those who dedicate their time to help their communities
- Survey shows blind people significantly underemployed around the world
- Taupo 2018 Kids Camp: Applications closing soon!
- Teaching with low vision
- Tech podcast Episode 7
- Ten things to know about Guide Dogs
- The white cane – a symbol of independence to be celebrated
- Three community members recognised at Achilles International New Zealand awards
- Tips for navigating COVID-19 from a blind and low vision perspective
- Tips on access barriers you may be facing
- Travel tips for packing your bag
- Travelling blind
- Trip to Tiritiri Maitangi Island
- Turning passion in to a business
- University of Auckland’s School of Optometry hosts a low vision learning day.
- Upcoming Equipment Display Days
- Upcoming trips and camps
- Using the white cane as a tool for advocacy
- Video: Judy Small, RNZFB Board member and Disability Advisor at Hamilton City Council.
- Volunteers share why they want to make a difference
- Volunteers weave communities together
- Vote by telephone dictation voting in the 2017 General Election
- Walking with Liz
- Welcome: Former Paralympian Mary Fisher joins the Blind Foundation
- Woman of the year
- Working together to make public transport accessible for all.
- World Braille Day with Julie Woods
- World Sight Day
- Youth feedback request
- Youth SEED Leadership Programme 2016
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Guide Dogs
- A guide dog gives John freedom
- Blind Foundation Guide Dog Facts
- Guide dog takes on the Tarawera Trail
- Guide Dogs survey results will help inform our five year business plan
- Helping hand at Guide Dogs
- Keeping safe on our streets
- Loie leads the way
- Meet Lydia Charteris, Guide Dog colony Health Manager
- Michele and Prentice’s story
- SPCA advise the following for all animal owners this fireworks
- Spotlight on Wendy Mellberg-Haecker
- Ten things to know about Guide Dogs
- Travelling with a guide dog – by Carmen Dobbie
- Walking with Liz
Library news
- A new and improved way to access our library: The Dolphin EasyReader App
- A Passion for Talking Books
- Blind Foundation library service now open to all Kiwis with a print disability.
- Blind Foundation’s online library service now available for Android
- Blind sector applauds NZ government’s progress on the Marrakesh Treaty
- Blind sector celebrates step closer to Marrakesh Treaty
- Booklink new version coming out soon
- Marrakesh Treaty one step closer
- Reading a breeze with BookLink
- Video: New Zealand joins the Marrakesh Treaty
Podcast Show Notes
Tech & Innovation
- A new and improved way to access our library: The Dolphin EasyReader App
- Alexa makes a difference in Brenda’s life.
- An improved way for new clients to request services
- Audio Game Hub nominated by Google Play for top global accessibility award
- Blind Foundation co-produces the first accessible interactive audiobook in New Zealand for people who are blind or low vision.
- Blind Foundation hosts international experts
- Blind Foundation library service now open to all Kiwis with a print disability.
- Blind Foundation to develop a new voice platform for the internet
- Blind Foundation’s online library service now available for Android
- Booklink new version coming out soon
- BookLink now available in the App Store
- First affordable braille reader launched
- Five tips to improve your digital accessibility
- Future political leaders tackle online accessibility
- Introducing: Tech podcast with Thomas Bryan
- Leading-IT
- Meet Leeanne Wojtowicz, Adaptive Communications Instructor
- New Swiss low-vision watches now in stock at the Blind Foundation
- Orbit Reader makes electronic braille affordable
- Reading a breeze with BookLink
- Smart Speakers: Using my voice to open the door to information, goods and services
- St John Medical Alarm: Discount now available
- Tech podcast Episode 3
- Tech podcast Episode 4
- Tech podcast Episode 5
- Tech podcast Episode 6
- Tech podcast Episode 7
- Tech podcast Episode 2
- Technology initiatives help people bridge the gap between disabled and abled
- Visit our ‘game-changing’ smart room
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- Advocating for a truly accessible Aotearoa
- Board Elections 2017
- Business planning day with consumers
- Creating an accessible website
- David Lepofsky on Radio New Zealand
- Experiencing the Kiwi way of life
- Final chance for Potential members to become Governing Members to vote on RNZFB Constitutional changes
- Make Vision Count photograph competition
- Meet Ellen Boucher
- New Issue Brief calls for more Asia-Pacific countries to join the Marrakesh Treaty, ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- New study on vision rehabilitation in New Zealand
- Planning for Christmas- Episode 2 ‘Perspectives’ podcast show notes
- Pre-Employment Programme 2017- applications are now open!
Youth
- Annual Taupo Summer Camp brings the fun
- Chantelle encourages anyone who wants to learn how to cook to ‘give it a go’
- Don’t judge what you see
- Future political leaders tackle online accessibility
- Get your applications in for the Kids Summer Camp!
- New Youth Council elected.
- Rotary Camp is back for 2018!
- Taupo 2018 Kids Camp: Applications closing soon!
- Taupo Summer Camp 2017
- Youth Council define their goals for the year ahead
- Youth Council voting is now open
- Youth feedback request
- Youth SEED 2017