Blindfolded World Sight Day awareness walk

A blindfolded walk was held for World Sight Day by Beccles & District Lions Club and Observatory the Opticians through Suffolk town to highlight challenges faced by blind and vision impaired people.

The walk started at Observatory the Opticians’ practice, continued through the marketplace, and returned via the King’s Head pub.

René Moor, optometrist at Observatory the Opticians, said: ‘We do a blindfolded walk every year to raise awareness of the difficulties that visually impaired and blind people face as part of their everyday routines, such as entering shops, crossing roads, negotiating kerbs and shopping in busy high streets. There are over two million people living with significant sight loss in the UK and 340,000 people who are registered blind or partially sighted.