Macular Society services in Northern Ireland

Peer support

You can access a range of Macular Society peer support services in-person, over the telephone or online.

Peer support includes local support groups, working age and young people and condition-specific groups; where you can receive tailored support. 

Regional societies

RNIB

The Royal National Institute of Blind People is the UK’s leading sight loss charity. It provides practical and emotional support to blind and partially sighted people, their families and carers. The charity raises awareness of the experiences of blind and partially sighted people and campaigns for change to create a society more accessible for all.

Guide Dogs

Guide Dogs provides mobility for the blind and partially sighted, whilst also supporting research, raising awareness, and campaigning for people with sight loss. The Northern Ireland team are based in Belfast and cover all of Northern Ireland, offering a range of services for adults and children with visual impairment. These include guide dogs, buddy dogs, life skills, sighted guiding, and information and advice.

Deafblind

Deafblind UK works closely with people with sight and hearing loss to ensure they can live life to the fullest. The charity creates connections and delivers quality support and information to ensure people who are deafblind can live more independently and with greater confidence and increased control. Deafblind offers practical support with things like daily living, getting out and about or finding information, and emotional support.

Blind Veterans

Blind Veterans UK provides rehabilitation, training, practical advice and emotional support to veterans regardless of how or when they lost their sight. They work to help blind veterans regain their independence and live their life to the fullest. Blind Veterans offers support remotely, via phone and video calls, at home, in the local community, and in their two centres of wellbeing.

Angel Eyes Northern Ireland

Angel Eyes NI is a Belfast-based charity that supports and advocates for blind and partially sighted children throughout Northern Ireland. Their goal is for every blind and partially sighted child and young person in Northern Ireland to have equal access to everything they need to flourish. Angel Eyes NI provides support to parents and carers with blind and partially sighted children from the point of diagnosis and provide them with the tools and knowledge to empower them to make informed decisions for their children and help them realise their full potential.

Sense Northern Ireland

Sense supports children and adults with complex disabilities across Northern Ireland. The charity offers residential care, virtual support, and has a network of centres in communities across the country. Sense provides lifelong opportunities for disabled people to be creative and active through holidays, arts, sports, and wellbeing programmes.

Age UK

Age UK is a national charity of older people. It works to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50. The charity’s mission is to inspire, involve and empower older people in the UK and influence others so that people in the UK enjoy growing older. Age UK offers a number of services, and works with groups and organisations across the country to make communities better places for older people.