An Art Deco gem on the coast: Behind the scenes at the Blind Veterans UK rehabilitation centre

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There's an Art Deco gem of a building set on the South Downs overlooking the sea close to Brighton. Unlike its architectural contemporaries, The Burgh Island Hotel in Devon or The Midland at Morcambe, this building offers more than a pleasant stay at the seaside. Within its white, geometric walls Blind Veterans UK's Ovingdean centre offers home, help and a new lease of life for its visually impaired residents and visitors.

It's two years since St Dunstan's, the charity set up in 1915 to help those blinded during the First World War, metaphorically dusted itself down and modernised to widen its remit to help all visually impaired people who had served in the armed forces at some point in their lives.