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Next Steps for WalesThe role of the Third Sector

Ceri JacksonActing Director RNIB CymruChair Wales Vision Strategy Advisory Group

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Third Sector Wales

• 31,000 organisations• 400,000 volunteers• 51,000 paid staff• £1.2billion income

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Third Sector

• Flexibility and diversity• Timely• Independence• Collaboration• Skill base• Integrity• Funding

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Sight Loss Third Sector

• UK Organisations• Umbrella body• National Organisations• Local Societies• Clubs

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Sight loss is devastating

• Over 75 per cent live in poverty • 90 per cent more likely to fall• 3 times more likely to have depression• One of top three causes of suicide• 66 per cent are unemployed• Almost 50 per cent report feeling

moderately or completely cut off from people and things around them

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Do you know?

• £120m • £250m• double over the next 25 years • 50 per cent

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Did you…?

• NHS spending £120m on eye health in Wales every year

• Indirect cost of sight loss in Wales £250m

• Sight loss expected to double over the next 25 years

• 50 per cent of sight loss is avoidable

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Policy context

• Welsh Government Eye Care Plan • Social Services Bill • Public Health Bill• Over 50s Health Checks • Welfare Reform • Independent Living framework

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Collaboration

• Welsh Government Eye Care Plan • Next Steps Forum• Focus On Ophthalmology• Wales Vision Strategy

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Quote from Colin Powell

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

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Thank you for listening

Ceri Jackson Ceri.jackson@rnib.org

029 2045 0440www.rnib.org.uk/cymru