Assess: Your current situation. Adapt: Plan your journey. Achieve: Realise your goals.  Sarah is our Life Ahead Project Coordinator and this service is available for any of SRSB/RSS’s clients. Life Ahead is based around a questionnaire designed to make the link between your goals (small or large) and helping you to get there by referring you appropriately to our range of services or those of other organisations.

This questionnaire is designed to take stock of your current situation and help you to identify some realistic outcomes, whether they are small steps or big ambitions. We will then be able to signpost you to the most relevant services or groups to help you grow your confidence and promote independence.

We will come back to this form at an agreed time with you and review whether you achieved your outcomes or whether your requirements and goals have changed. 

Our charity is there for your sight and/or hearing loss journey providing day to day support to our clients to help them live their best life. From your initial registration we will be there to support you when you need us, and always in the background when you don’t, ready to swing back into action if things change.

Even if things seem overwhelming at the moment, you will meet lots of people who want to encourage and empower you, that could be our staff, our clients, our volunteers or our supporters.

We have seen incredible change, reinvention and growth with so many of our clients and it is our goal to help you adapt to a new life or to changes or challenges that you are experiencing. We have heard so many people say that their life has taken a different turn and by accepting our support they have been able to grow, gain confidence, learn new skills, meet new people, experience things they had never thought of before (such as doing skydives and abseils!) and found out about support they didn’t know was there, equipment and technology to enhance their life, mix with others in a similar situation and made contacts with people who they may not have met previously. And, also made friends for life (we’ve even had some romances!!!).

If you would like to find out more about this service you can call Sarah for an informal chat with no commitment. The feedback we have had so far is that people have found it really useful, helped them to think things through and focus their thoughts on their Life Ahead.