Financial support for our work

ClearVision depends on donations large and small from our supporters, including RNIB, various charitable trusts and some generous individuals. We have very low overheads, so we are able to make excellent use of any money we are given.

Unless they request otherwise, individual supporters will usually receive a newsletter once a year giving information about our progress and plans. No other letters or appeals are sent as we know many people object to their donations being spent on frequent mailshots.

Charitable trusts and other organisations have helped in the past by making donations either to our general funds or to pay for specific projects, items of equipment or collections of books. Please contact us if you think you might be able to help us in this way.

Online Donations by Credit or Debit Card

You can make secure online donations to ClearVision through the Just Giving website. Click here to make a donation. For sponsored runners, etc, Just Giving can provide you with your own personlised webpage. Click here for more information.

CAF Charity Card Donations

If you have a Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Charity Card you can make a secure donation online. Clicking this link will take you to the CAF Charity Card donation page. How do Iget a CAF Charity Card?

BBC Radio 4 Appeal

At the end of July 2006 one of Britain's most popular writers and performers made a Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of ClearVision children's braille library - with the help of a young braille reader. Gervase Phinn is best known for his four autobiographical novels set in the Yorkshire dales, The Other Side of the Dale, Over Hill and Dale, Head Over Heels in the Dales and Up and Down in the Dales.

The appeal raised £14,000 for ClearVision and occasional donations are still coming in.

We are very grateful to the BBC for giving us this opportunity and to Gervase Phinn for giving up his time to present the appeal.

Read the full text of the Appeal.

Sponsoring a Book

Some people choose to sponsor a ClearVision book and this is also popular with schools, Cubs and Brownies, Churches, etc. £15 sponsors the brailling of a new book for the library and sponsors can choose from the following categories:

• humorous books
• animal stories
• non-fiction: the natural world
• non-fiction: people & civilisation
• stories for under-fives
• stories for school children
• poems/stories in verse
• any book the library needs

A sticker giving the sponsor's name is put in each book and the sponsor is sent a certificate showing the books sponsored.

If you would like to sponsor a book or books please request a sponsor form - or send the following information with your cheque:

• Your name
• The name to appear in the book and on the certificate
• Type of book(s) you wish to sponsor
• Name and address to which the certificate should be sent