Mike Hale: 20 years and counting

Anniversaries in optics come thick and fast with practices, companies, and people constantly passing notable milestones.

However, I would like to use some of this space to pay tribute to Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP), which is celebrating 20 years of providing free eye care and spectacles to vulnerable people.

The charity had been running for quite a few years when I joined Optician and one of my first assignments was to visit one of its clinics in London.

It was a genuinely inspirational experience to meet the volunteers enabling such a service to run and speak to the patients about the challenges they faced accessing eye care.