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Vision Aid Overseas is proud to have the support of a large number of organisations, associations and companies.
Business Supporters
Boots Opticians are a UK optical retailer with over 700 branches. They have been Titanium Members of Vision Aid Overseas since 2010. Dollond & Aitchison, the UK retailer, was acquired by Boots in 2009. Before the merger D&A were longstanding supporters of Vision Aid Overseas, loaning us their training centre in Birmingham and raising over £70,000 in 2008 for our work in Ethiopia. |
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Established over 40 years ago, Dunelm Optical is one of the UK's most successful suppliers of designer eyewear and fashion frames, spectacle cases, prescription glazing, sunglasses and eyewear accessories. Dunelm have been Titanium Members of Vision Aid Overseas since 1998. |
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DX provides a nationwide service conveying hundreds of boxes of recycled spectacles for Vision Aid Overseas every month. DX is the UK's leading private business to business mail company. Established in 1975, it provides more than 16,000 companies across the UK with reliable, overnight business mail and parcel delivery services. DX currently delivers over one million items per day and operates a UK-wide end-to-end network including collection, sorting and final mail delivery. |
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Published since 2000, Eyewear Intelligence remains the most authoritative and comprehensive business newsletter on the eyewear and optical market in Europe, focusing on suppliers, distributors and retailers operating anywhere in this important region of the world. Eyewear Intelligence is published in English a minimum of 15 times a year and can be received by e-mail or regular mail. It is only available by subscription. |
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Essilor UK is a long standing supporter and Titanium Member of Vision Aid Overseas. |
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HappyGlasses.co.uk is an exciting new website specialising in selling high quality sunglasses and spectacle frames for unbeatable prices, whilst helping those less fortunate in the process. We supply leading brands such as Calvin Klein , Elizabeth Arden , Jaeger ,William Morris of London to name a few, plus from the sale of every frame we make a donation to our friends at Vision Aid Overseas . Each contribution will be used to provide a complete pair of prescription glasses for a child or individual in the developing world. Never has looking cool felt so good. |
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Titanium member. Have stored spectacles and made substantial donations. |
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Titanium Members. |
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Mondottica was formed in 2002 by founder Michael Jardine - with over 25 years of experience in the eyewear industry - to design and distribute eyewear products under exclusive licence agreements. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Mondottica has offices in London, Paris, Amsterdam, New York and Sydney. |
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Titanium member. Kindly conduct preliminary sorting of spectacles for Vision Aid Overseas. |
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Vision Aid Overseas would like to thank Rodenstock who have supported our work for a number of years and make regular donation of lenses and frames to the charity. In 2011 they made a significant donation to support the cost of sending a journalist to Zambia. This donation has helped to keep the administrative costs of this visit to a minimum and supports Vision Aid Overseas' work to raise of avoidable uncorrected refractive error in developing countries. |
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Titanium member. |
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SEIKO is a revolutionary optical company that distributes high quality SEIKO products in the UK. SEIKO’s specialism in clearer spectacles lenses, progressive lens design technology and Titanium frame material has made SEIKO a popular choice on high streets all over the UK. |
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Specsavers Opticians, a Titanium member, is delighted to continue their support of Vision Aid Overseas. Specsavers stores throughout the UK have collection bins where customers can deposit their unwanted glasses so that they can be used to give people in developing countries the valuable gift of sight. Several Specsavers opticians have also visited Africa with Vision Aid Overseas to give sight tests and dispense glasses to those who would not normally have access to such services. Vision Aid Overseas and Specsavers have a major fundraising partnership aimed at developing eye care services across Zambia. In May 2013, Specsavers and Vision Aid Overseas were nominated for a prestigious Business Charity Award for best overseas project partnership. |
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Topcon have been Titanium Members of Vision Aid Overseas since 1998. They manufacture some of the most innovative and highest quality optical equipment in the world. |
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Trade Aid UK is the trading name for Trade Aid International Limited and its charitable arm, the Trade Aid UK Foundation. By providing a top quality sugar product, Trade Aid aims to give consumers a new choice for this most basic of commodities. At the same time, customers can be confident that they are making a real difference because profits generated are donated to help people who are deprived of the basic necessities of life, such as water, food, healthcare, education and housing. The Trade Aid UK Foundation has been supporting Vision Aid Overseas since 2011 and has helped to fund programmes in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. |
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Transitions Optical are proud Titanium members of Vision Aid Overseas. We are dedicated to improving the sight and eye health of people across the world with the help of variable tint lenses. They react quickly to sunlight to offer protection from harmful UV rays and the uncomfortable strain caused by glare. We look forward to working very closely with Vision Aid Overseas over the coming months and are excited at upcoming projects that will ensure everyone in the optical industry is aware of the fantastic work done by this charity. |
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Other organisations
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A long term supporter of VAO, the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) is the only professional body in the UK solely dedicated to the interests of dispensing opticians, both individually and collectively, and to the profession of dispensing optics. |
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Vision Aid Overseas is proud to be supported by the AOP who are kindly donating their exhibition facilities in London for our 2012 Conference. The AOP promotes the profession and development of high professional and clinical standards, as well as representing the needs and interests of individual optometrists and dispensing opticians. |
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A website dedicated to the history of spectacles and other optical aids. Including comprehensive information regarding the subject of the History of Eyeglasses. |
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The museum, housed at the College of Optometrists in London, is the world’s oldest specialist optical heritage collection open to the public. It assists Vision Aid Overseas to identify antique items of eye wear that have been donated and to find suitable homes for those items deemed unsuitable to send abroad. It also collects historic archival material relating to various eyesight charities and interprets their work via its public displays and temporary exhibitions. |
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The Clothworkers' Foundation was set up by The Clothworkers' Company in 1977 and aims to improve the lives of people and communities, particularly those facing disadvantage. Since its establishment, the Foundation has awarded grants totalling £82m. |
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The Federation of Manufacturing Opticians Every two years the FMO donates a free stand to Vision Aid Overseas at Optrafair. This high quality optical conference gives us the opportunity to engage with optical professionals and businesses from all over the UK and Europe. |
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The WCSM was founded in 1629 by Royal Charter to promote assistance to the visually impaired. Today, one of its key roles is to provide training and accredited qualifications for optical technicians and optical practice support staff. It also runs a charitable fund - The Spectacle Makers' Charity - which ranks Vision Aid Overseas highly amongst the many causes that it supports. |
