Seminars, group discussions, activities for young people and an opportunity to share the experience of living with nystagmus are all on offer at the open day of nystagmus network (NN) being held in Birmingham on 16th October.
 

Warwickshire County Council (WCC) has launched a survey to gather views on changes to arrangements for providing concessionary travel schemes.

Currently, concessionary travel is funded by the Government who allocate resources to local authorities at district, borough and unitary council level to deliver the service. From April 1 next year the Department for Transport (DfT) is transferring responsibility for the administration to county level as part of a national £180 million saving.

For news on Disabled Living Allowance see RNIB website

Steve Scaysbrook, one of WAB's directors has put together a useful article on Disability Discrimination

Over 100 electronic textbooks will be available for print-impaired learners in September 2010.  Visit rnib.org.uk/textbooks for more details and mytextbook.org for more information on the DfE Accesible Resources Pilot Project

BT can offer billing in Braille, large print and audio CD which also contains an MP3 file and a text data-file that can be accessed from a PC.  They also have a very cheap telephone package which is attractive to people who are at home for much of the day and reliant on their phone.  For more details see link.

All members are invited to the 2010 Annual General Meeting to be held at Studley Village Hall, High Street, Studley, B80 7HJ (see Map) on Thursday 23rd September 2010 at 11.30am.   All WAB members should have received a preliminary notification and lunch booking form.  Please contact the WAB office if you do not hav

Major roadworks on Theatre Street and Bowling Green Street in Warwick will result in temporary traffic arrangements and changes in bus services.   Roadworks start on 31st July and last until 12th October or later.  Mercia website gives details. 

See individual pages for details of major exhibitions at Rugby,  Nuneaton and Stratford Drop-in Centres

See the atached poster for well being sessions in Dordon every 4th Wednesday evening of the month

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