Vision Care for Homeless seeks more support

Optical charity Vision Care for Homeless People is on a drive to roll out its much-needed services across the country.

The charity provides free eye tests and spectacles to homeless people throughout the UK, and is now seeking support from individual practitioners and organisations to help it expand from its London base.

Last week, the charity held afternoon tea at the House of Lords, which was attended by representatives of several prominent companies. The event was hosted by the charity's patron, Lord Filkin, who praised the founding members of the Vision Care for Homeless People.

'These are people who identified a problem, then rather than just talking about it, they actually went and did something about it,' he said.