Activities
The following activities are open to people with sight loss living in the west of Scotland, although many of the Go! activities are held in the Glasgow area.
Go! Adult
Go! is a user-led project for adults who want to access social and recreational opportunities. There is a wide selection of activity groups, developed from the participant's ideas and held throughout the year. Currently the groups are held at Visibility's offices and cover a wide variety of interests as can be seen below.
- Arts and Crafts
- Book Group
- Singing
- Yoga
- Guitar
- Braille
Click here for current programme of activities.
The participants also take part in one-off activities such as off-road driving and canoeing. If you would like to receive information or be involved in the project, contact the number listed below or email us on info@visibility.org.uk.
Go! Youth
For young people who want to meet new people, try out some new activities or just spend time with others, the Go! Project may be for you. The participants get together on a regular basis to experience some of the following activities.
- Bowling
- Climbing
- Days Out
- Ski-ing
- Quizzes
New members are always welcome and young people are involved in developing the activities of the group so if there is something you really want to do, give us a call.
For further information contact 0141 332 4632.
Go Teens
Go Teens is the social and recreational group provided by Visibility for teenagers aged between 14 and 20 years of age. There are currently 24 activities in the year - one at the weekend and one weekday evening in every month. Go Teens encourages the participants to come up with the ideas for activities and from these recommendations the programme is developed.
New View
The New View project is for people with central vision loss who retain a degree of peripheral vision (mainly but not exclusively people with age related macular degeneration) and who wish to regain some functional reading ability.
We train people, with the aid of magnification, to use their peripheral vision to read. This technique is called Eccentric Reading and was developed in Sweden and America. People who have been involved in the training have found it exciting to develop this new skill. It does require concentration and can be a little tiring at the beginning, but the results are worth it.
Training can be done at our offices or at a place convenient to you.
For further information contact 0141 332 4632.
If you are interested in learning how to train others in this technique, go to Training.
