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Hello and Welcome to Sight Life

Get Your Sight Life Charity Calendar: Limited availability!

Selling Fast! Sight Life's Charity 2026 Calendars are gorgeous Christmas Gifts. Click to find out more and order yours now!

Don’t miss the 2025 Christmas Big Give: 2-9 December!

We’re taking part in the 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge to raise £14,000. You can help us achieve our goal! Click to find out how.


New! Sight Life Christmas Jumpers and Merchandise

Find out about our new range of Sight Life Merchandise and Christmas Jumpers - available to buy online (or via us) now!

Sight Life, formerly known as Cardiff Institute for the Blind until October 2019, offers a wide range of local services to support blind and partially sighted people across much of South Wales. Our mission is to help people live independent, active, social, and fulfilling lives. Established in 1865, we are one of Wales' oldest charities. We are proud to have rugby legend Sir Gareth Edwards, CBE, as our President, and Wales' renowned female impersonator, Ceri Dupree, as our patron.

Case Studies

Some of our members share their stories.

Volunteer Steve and guide dog Jax on contact line

Steve’s story

Steve is one of our long-standing volunteers and service users at Sight Life from Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT). He started experiencing sight loss 12 years […]

Swansea Volunteer Trish

Trish’s story

Patricia “Trish” has volunteered for Sight Life for over 10 years now.  Trish’s sight loss was an unexpected complication from diabetes at age 49. She […]

Volunteer and member Andy outside Sight Life

Andy’s story

Andy, a Sight Life member, is a keen photographer and is active in several of our social groups, but he wasn’t always this way. Sight […]

Latest News

High Sheriff, Janet Davies, presents David Jones with a certificate for outstanding achievement in Volunteering

Successful Thanksgiving Networking Event

Thank You for Joining Our Thanksgiving Networking Event! We want to extend a huge thank you to all our corporate partners who attended our Thanksgiving […]

Photography Launch event

Congratulations to our Photography Group on the successful launch of their exhibition celebrating Sight Life’s 160th anniversary, proudly sponsored by Jane Hutt MS. The exhibition […]

Four Sight Life Christmas jumpers stacked and offset. The back one is navy, then green, then red and white. All on a dark green background. Underneath it says Sight Life Christmas Jumpers.

Sight Life Christmas Jumpers (and other merch) Available Now!

Get ready to spread some festive cheer! Our brand-new Christmas jumpers have just landed and are now available to buy in our online shop here. […]

We Are Social

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Sight LifeFriday, December 5th, 2025 at 10:41am
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Sight LifeThursday, December 4th, 2025 at 2:58pm
The party season has begun! Last Friday we held our annual Volunteer Christmas Party for our Cardiff and RCT volunteers, we also welcomed some of the volunteers from Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot area too!
We had a lovely afternoon with a plentiful buffet, a raffle and games, including play your cards right, and drawing snowmen on the top of your head!
There was lots of laughter and it was a great opportunity to welcome our new volunteers into the Sight Life volunteering family.

We have our Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot Volunteer party tomorrow!

This was also our opportunity to thank our volunteers for their dedication, skills and efforts throughout the year.
Our volunteers are essential to Sight Life, we really couldn't manage any of our activities without their input.

Thank you to all our Volunteers, you are amazing!
#GoSightLife!

If you are interested in volunteering please contact [email protected] or call 02920 398 900

Pictures of the party.
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Sight LifeThursday, December 4th, 2025 at 12:37pm
We’re excited to announce that, once again, we’ve been accepted to the Big Give’s annual Christmas Challenge.
This is a 7-day opportunity to hit our fundraising target of £14,000 and end 2025 on a high. But we need your help to achieve it!
All donations received during the challenge week (which runs from midday on 2 December until midday on 9 December) will be doubled. So, if you’d like to make a donation, please keep it safe until then and simply scan the QR code below or type in the link:
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006CSTMYA4
Thank you
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