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RNIB Support

RNIB Support

By: RNIB Connect Radio
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 Finding out about the services that exist across the RNIB.


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  • Connie Evans (1921- 2025) - Seen Exhibition Audio Description

    Connie Evans (1921- 2025) - Seen Exhibition Audio Description
    Aug 30 2025
    About Connie Evans:

    Connie Evans was born in 1921 in London’s East End and was raised in Shoreditch. Living in wartime London, Connie worked in Dalston as a machinist making menswear, before later joining the Auxiliary Territorial Service. While serving, she met her partner, Ted, whom she married in 1943.

    In her later years, Connie supported people in need within her local community, supplying wheelchairs and becoming Chair of her local residents’ association. Eventually, she joined the Chelsea Pensioners at Royal Hospital Chelsea, where she gave talks to school children about her wartime experiences. In 2019, the Royal Chelsea Hospital published an article detailing her vivid memories of life on the home front.

    Connie passed away in 2025 at the age of 103. We wish to thank Connie and her family for her participation in Seen.

    Joshua Bratt’s reflections on photographing Connie for Seen

    “Connie was warm, kind and had effortless poise. It was lovely to shoot someone that had lived as long as her and seen so much during her life. She’s a wonderful example to us all.”

    For more information about the exhibition and to view more portraits by Joshua Bratt please visit     www.rnib.org.uk/seen
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  • Red Szell - Seen Exhibition Audio Description

    Red Szell - Seen Exhibition Audio Description
    Aug 30 2025
    About Red Szell:

    Red Szell is a writer, broadcaster and blind rock climber. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in his teens, he has been registered blind since 1989, and lives in London with his wife and their two children.

    In 2013, he became the first blind person to climb the Old Man of Hoy – the tallest sea-stack in the Northern Hemisphere at 450ft high. The feat was captured in a BBC TV documentary, and Red’s account of the adventure, The Blind Man of Hoy, was published in 2015. He continues to climb and use his platform as a blind athlete and broadcaster to promote the message that we should focus less on what we have lost and more on what we can still achieve.

    Red’s reflections on Seen

    “I was photographed at BethWall, a London Climbing Centre in Bethnal Green, during a weekly training session with my climbing partner, Carl.

    I hope that people will leave this exhibition with a greater appreciation of the wide range of jobs and activities that blind and partially sighted individuals can undertake – if we are given access and opportunity. We are natural problem solvers, because we have to be.”

    For more information about the exhibition and to view more portraits by Joshua Bratt please visit     www.rnib.org.uk/seen
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  • Mike Duxbury - Seen Exhibition Audio Description

    Mike Duxbury - Seen Exhibition Audio Description
    Aug 30 2025
    About Mike Duxbury:

    Mike Duxbury lost his sight to childhood glaucoma at the age of 6. Undeterred by his sight loss, Mike continues to pursue his wide range of passions – including attending and graduating from agricultural college, driving racing cars, travelling the world, becoming a confident public speaker and a talented musician, and above all, achieving his ultimate dream of becoming a farmer in his own right. Mike has spent the last 25 years developing projects to help people with disabilities in the telecoms industry, and most recently, the farming industry.

    Continuing in his quest for equality and inclusion, Mike created the first working farm built by a blind person. As CEO of Inclusive Farm Scotland at MacRobert, he aims to build a better world for disabled people and those with differences – using his drive and passion to create equal opportunities for all.

    Mike’s reflections on Seen

    “The moment this photo was taken, I was thinking about what farm jobs needed to be done and enjoying the surroundings that I had created for myself and others.

    I hope Seen challenges the stigma around the capabilities of blind people. No matter our differences, we are able to do the things that we are most passionate about and remember, dreams do come true.”

    For more information about the exhibition and to view more portraits by Joshua Bratt please visit www.rnib.org.uk/seen
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