Our Netherlands team has been fundraising and volunteering for charity De Zonnebloem
to help make public venues accessible for people with physical disabilities.
The UK and the Republic of Ireland
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More than £1.3 million was raised through store (SWOTY) competition we raised £88,000 for UK
and support office fundraising, as well as personal anti-bullying children’s charity Kidscape.
donations from Dame Mary and Doug Perkins, for a
range of local and national charities and Specsavers-
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in the UK through funding by Specsavers and a
Guide Dogs for the Blind, Blind Veterans UK, Vision
Screening for Schools campaign. This vision-screening
Aid Overseas, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, and
software will help to detect the most common eye
Sound Seekers.
problems among children, allowing them to be
corrected early on.
Through our marketing and PR activity we supported
the Eyecare Trust and National Eye Health week by
raising awareness of eye health and the importance
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writing competition aimed at raising awareness of the
great work done by carers in and around the UK.
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in Crumlin, adding a further €50,000 to the €100,000
already donated.
Specsavers Healthcall, our domiciliary company,
joined forces with Carers UK to launch a creative
Our Irish stores continued to support the renovation
of an ophthalmic unit at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital
of regular eye examinations.
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Free vision-screening software is being made
available to all 27,000 primary and secondary schools
supported partnerships. Beneficiaries included
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Through our annual Spectacle Wearer of the Year
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Specsavers is partnering with Modern Muse, a not-for-
profit enterprise that aims to give schoolgirls from
all walks of life an insight into the different careers
We embarked on a new partnership with the available to them when they finish their studies.
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), Many of our female colleagues have uploaded
commissioning a State of the Nation Eye Health profiles about their roles, to help showcase the varied
Report and pledging to raise £100,000 by June 2017 opportunities available at Specsavers.
to help fund sight-loss advisors around the UK.
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