Evidence, Insights, Facts
The sector-wide VI Insight Hub is an accessible, up-to-date and authoritative source of evidence, insights and facts from research, literature and other sources relating to people living with, or at risk of, sight-loss.
Evidence, Insights, Facts
The sector-wide VI Insight Hub is an accessible, up-to-date and authoritative source of evidence, insights and facts from research, literature and other sources relating to people living with, or at risk of, sight-loss.
Welcome to the VI Insight Hub
The VI Insight Hub, or the Hub, provides a curated source of verified and trusted information and data that can be accessed, freely, by anyone looking for information that can benefit those living with sight-loss. It will provide a single, trusted source of truth for the whole sector and beyond, and will help to inform and stimulate research, policy development, improved service delivery, fundraising opportunities and journalistic enquiry.
2.2 million people are living with sight loss in the UK
Every day 250 people start to lose their sight
One in five people will live with sight loss in their lifetime
Only one in four registered blind and partially sighted people of working age are in employment
What we do
The Hub is one of the key strategic priority initiatives of the VI Charity Sector Partnership. The aim of this partnership is to provide strategic overview of initiatives that will lead to improving the lives of blind and partially sighted people and those at risk of sight loss across the UK.
Latest Research
The latest research on the Hub can be accessed below. For our comprehensive, and growing repository of research relating to people living with sight loss please see our Research page. To have your research considered for inclusion on the Hub please use the Contact Us page.
Latest News
The latest news stories from across the sight loss sector can be accessed below. For a roundup of all the news and stories from across the sector please see our News page. To have your news story considered for inclusion on the Hub please use the Contact Us page.
Get Involved
If you have research or other useful information to share or you wish to share a news story that might benefit people living with sight loss or the sector please do get in contact. You can use the details on the Contact Us page or click on the button below.
"The VI Charity Sector Partnership, which comprises eight of the leading charities in the sector are pleased to announce that the VI Insight Hub has become a reality. The Hub is a key strategic priority initiative of the Partnership. We hope it will become a single, trusted source of truth for the whole sector and beyond, and in doing so really benefit blind and partially sighted people."
Charles Colquhoun, Partnership CEO Sponsor for the VI Insight Hub