Our plans
In 2017/18, the Specsavers partnership will:
The Nordics
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continue to recruit more stores to get involved in
our Give Sight Give Back project by raising money,
The UK and the Republic of Ireland and showcase our support through a newly
• created website
continue our partnerships with national and
international organisations, including Guide Dogs
for the Blind, Blind Veterans UK, Vision Aid Overseas,
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arrange eye camps to provide eye tests and glasses
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and Sound Seekers
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provide ongoing support to local charities through
fundraising and awareness activities in our stores
and support offices
•
pledge to raise £100,000 for the Royal National
for people in that country
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embark on a new partnership with the International
Glaucoma Association to help promote glaucoma
awareness
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raise €40,000 through local and national charity
activities
•
get more stores to engage in local charity projects,
with each store donating a minimum of €500
Institute of Blind People, to fund sight-loss advisors
around the UK
continue collecting frames for Tanzania and
to charity
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look into providing clinical expertise to the
Norges Blindeforbund charity project in Nepal,
which provides free medical treatment for people
with cataracts
support National Eye Health Week, promoting
awareness of eye health and the importance of
regular eye examinations
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raise £80,000 for anti-bullying charity Kidscape to
enable it to continue its vital work
•
continue to support the renovation of an ophthalmic
unit at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Ireland
Spain
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partner with the ONCE charity to raise funds that
help provide services for the blind, as well as people
with serious visual impairment
•
work with a national food bank charity to collect
food and support the cause
Northern Europe
Give Sight project in Tanzania
Our Nordic stores and support offices worked
together on our Give Sight project, assisting at
The Netherlands eye camps in Tanzania. Teams of opticians, optical
• raise at least €150,000 for local charities and inform assistants and ambassadors from the Nordics
our customers what these donations really mean to volunteered to provide sight tests for people in
their community rural areas who do not have access to eyecare.
•
work with our new national charity, Diabetes Fund,
and raise €50,000 that can be used to support
education, research and awareness projects
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Throughout the year, Nordic stores also collected
more than 30,000 pairs of customers’ unwanted
glasses, which were sent to Tanzania and
prescribed to those visiting the clinics.
encourage our teams to be involved in good causes Since the project in Tanzania was founded seven
and give back to our local communities through our years ago, more than 32,000 Tanzanians have
CSR approach received a sight test and spectacles.