RNIB Connect

For our regular browse through the RNIB online shop here on RNIB Connect Radio this time our Toby Davey is joined by Claire Maxwell, RNIB Shop’s Buyer, to highlight some great lighting options including desk lights, floor lamps and head torches that are currently discounted through the shop’s lighting sale.
Also for anyone who wants to get hands on with a number of HumanWare Braille displays there is a drop-in event on Monday 19 October 2026 from 10am to 12noon at the RNIB’s Grimaldi Building in London where you could get lucky and be in the running to come away with a Brailliant Braille display.
For more about those highlighted lighting products plus many other great products that you will find in the RNIB online shop do visit - https://shop.rnib.org.uk/connect
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RNIB’s Let’s Play is a sensory‑play guide designed to help parents, carers and professionals create fun, accessible play experiences for blind and partially sighted children.
Barry Snell caught up with RNIB’s Education and Children Information Resources Officer Tom Norton, to find out more.
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Paralympic Champion Lizzi Jordan is campaigning to have VAT removed from Tandem bikes.
Amelia learned more about the Tax free tandems campaign…
Learn more on the British Cycling webiste - Tax Free Tandems
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Could Braille labelling on food packaging  be something that can come in across the UK? Hubert is finding out about the research that helps to build evidence to have this happen.

Each week, RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell sits down with Simon Antrobus, CEO of RNIB, to look at some of the big stories coming from the UK sight loss charity.
This week Simon talks about RNIB’s Accessible Streets campaign, pavement parking, and enhanced audio commentary on Premier League football.
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