charity No.: 1064730

Newsletter No. 18 February 2006

The Jubilee Sailing Trust owns

and operates two tall ships,

LORD NELSON, and

TENACIOUS. These ships are

the only two vessels in the

world that have been purpose-

designed and built for crews of

mixed physical abilities to sail

side by side on equal terms.

With some fifteen applicants,

we had an impressive

response to our 10th

Anniversary Competition.

The winner was Mrs Ruth

Hollingshead,, of Carisbrook,

An active member of the Isle of

Wight Society for the Blind.

She won the prize of a 5 day

trip in July, on the sail training

ship the Lord Nelson.

The Best Read Book Club

Channel Four's Richard & Judy show

has joined forces with the National

Library for the Blind (NLB) to

include blind readers.

Now in its third year, the book club

will feature ten books for viewers to

read and then join a national debate

with the famous pair.

However, for the first time blind fans

will be able to take part as all

publishers involved will fund the

transcription of their books into

braille by the NLB

The NLB is producing each braille

book in time for the appropriate

Richard and Judy programme. Blind

people wishing to borrow or buy a

copy, or who wish to find out more

about the initiative, should contact

theNLB on

01614062525

or email:

Large print or audio versions of the

books may be in public libraries or

available through RNIB's Talking Book

Seivice, but remember only 5% of all

books are published in accessible

formats. The website:

www.revealweb.org.uk

will tell you what the books are

You may have heard that by the

14th February

retailers will only accept

debit and credit cards

that have a chip. That

doesn't mean that you

have to use a PIN if you

find it difficult to use.

However if you do want

to carry on signing,

instead of entering a PIN

into a machine, you must

ask your bank or credit

card company to issue

you with a Chip and

Signature card instead

a Chip and PIN card.

Some retailers are

getting confused but

when you insert your

Chip and Signature card

into the machine at the

Till it will actually tell the

staff to request a

signature rather than a

PIN number. If you have

any queries or problems

please contact RNIB's

Helpline

0845 766 9999

RNIB's Open Your Eyes

campaign aims to bring an end to

preventable sight loss in the UK

by 2020. Open Your Eyes

reveals that more than half of all

sight loss is avoidable and that

1.9 million people with diabetes

and 250,000 people with early-

stage glaucoma are at risk of

losing their sight. This is in

addition to the two million people

in the UK already with sight

problems.

The situation is going to get much

worse with the explosion in the

numbers of people with diabetes

and as a result of the ageing of

our population. RNIB wants the

Government to invest in a large-

scale public eye health awareness

campaign on the importance of

regular eye tests. Regular eye

tests are vital for everyone & can

save your sight. Open Your Eyes

states nine out of ten people fear

losing their sight above any other

sense but one in three still failed

to have an eye test in the last

two years.

Last year HAUGBPS carried a

similar message into local schools

with its EYE CARE project.

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