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A person's hand holding two similarly shaped door keys in front of a pale blue exterior door. One key has a horizontal line of black tacti-mark on it, the other has a smiley face marked in orange tacti mark

How can I identify keys?

Posted 31/03/25 | Advice

Making your keys easier to identify couldn’t be more straightforward, whether you want to tell them apart by touch or sight. Use Tacti-Mark, a liqu...

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Cover of April 2025's New Product Guide featuring an image of the WeWalk2 cane held by a white woman in office apparel

Download April's New Product Guide

Posted 19/03/25 | News

Spring into spring with the April issue of New Product Guide. Download your preferred format here – APDF, BRF, MP3 – to learn about our new talking...

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Three painted Easter eggs nestling in an alpine strawberry. One in the style of Van Gogh's Starry night, one is a cartoon smiling face wearing a knitted hat, the last has a thylacine (or Tasmanian tiger) painted on it

Banish Easter boredom!

Posted 11/03/25 | Advice

It’s time, once again, for parents and carers to make plans to occupy young hands and minds. We have some suggestions for rain or shine (which we’r...

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A person holding out their arm to show a tactile watch on their wrist. The case is open and the person's other finger is outstretched to read the time using the tactile markings on the watch face.

How do I tell the time?

Posted 10/03/25 | Advice

If sight loss means you can no longer read the time on your old watch, you should check out the accessible alternatives: easy-to-see, tactile, or t...

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Lorna walking with her guide dog. She has brown hair, is wearing a denim jacket, black jeans, and black trainers.

Make Mother's Day special

Posted 10/03/25 | Interviews

Mums come in all sorts of flavours – biological mums, step-mums, foster mums, carers, grannies, just-like-a mums – and we want to make sure this Mo...

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Meet our newest Ambassador

Meet our newest Ambassador

Posted 11/03/25 | News

We’re delighted to announce blind content creator, disability activist, award-winning presenter, journalist and author Lucy Edwards as RNIB’s lates...

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A black woman in a turquoise top tips her head back and uses an eye drop dispenser.

World Glaucoma Week

Posted 04/03/25 | Advice

It's World Glaucoma Week – but what is glaucoma? Put simply, glaucoma is the name of a group of eye conditions where there's damage to the optic ne...

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Susan and Jo cross the finish line at the Great North Run. Behind them are more runners, and supporters lining the route.

Ready to run

Posted 04/03/25 | Interviews

Running has lots to recommend it – good for your health, gets you out in the fresh air, (basic kit aside) free to take part in – but you might thin...

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Open tin with easy-to-see maths tools - including ruler, protractor, set squares, and compass - inside. Inside the lid is a yellow stencil with the alphabet in upper and lower case and numbers.

Take 9am double maths in your stride

Posted 18/02/25 | News

We don't promise that this tactile, easy-to-see maths set will make the hypotenuse your favourite animal, but it can make drawing and measuring ang...

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