Focus Birmingham | Charity for sight loss and complex needs

Birmingham charity helps train future optometrists as sight loss rises

A partnership between disability and sight loss charity Focus Birmingham and Aston University is helping prepare the next generation of optometrists in a real low vision setting. Read more
Focus Summer Fete 2026

Join Focus Birmingham's Summer Fete in Harborne for family fun, with stalls, games, tombola, delicious food and a raffle—raising vital funds to support people with sight loss and complex disabilities. Read more
Focus Spring Appeal

Support our Spring Appeal to help people with complex needs and visual impairments thrive. Your donation funds vital services, independence, wellbeing and brighter futures for the people we support across Birmingham. Read more

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Focus Birmingham - Making Lives Better

For help call our SupportLine on 0121 393 4849 Monday to Friday: 9:00am – 4:30pm Email us at [email protected] Read more

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Sight Loss Support

We are the local charity providing support, care, advice and guidance to all those affected by sight loss across the whole of Birmingham. Sight Loss Support Service SupportLine 0121 393 4849

Our Complex Needs Day Service provides Monday to Friday support for adults from the age of nineteen upwards, to deliver stimulating programmes of activities which are tailored to the needs of the individual.

Supported Living

We provide a specially adapted supported living scheme in Kings Norton providing 24 hr care to support adults with visual impairment and other disabilities to live independently

Our impact

24,087	Service Occasions - that's the number of times we came into contact with the people we support this past year
1 in 5	people will live with sight loss in their life time
75%	of disabled people have more than one impairment

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Focus Summer Fete - Recap

A joyful community day with games, music, stalls and more—supporting people with sight loss and complex needs. Summer Fete Recap Saturday | 12 July 2025 12 - 3pm Read more
Start: 12^th July, 2025 at 12:00pm

End: 12^th July, 2025 at 3:00pm

Published: 3^rd April, 2024

Updated: 30^th September, 2025

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Location: 48-62 Woodville Road, Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9AT
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Garretts Green Social Hub

Want to mingle with other people with visual impairments/sight loss. Join our Social hub at Garretts Green, every Monday from 1st of September. Sign up below or call - 0121 393 4849. Read more
Start: 11^th January, 2026 at 1:00pm

End: 27^th December, 2026 at 3:00pm

Published: 19^th August, 2025

Updated: 25^th February, 2026

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Location: St Thomas Church, 239 Garretts Green Lane, Garretts Green, B26 2SAJoin
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Longbridge Social Hub

Join us at a social group at Longbridge Retirement Village every Thursday from 2:00 – 4:00pm. Read more
Start: 12^th January, 2026 at 2:00pm

End: 31^st January, 2027 at 4:00pm

Published: 29^th October, 2024

Updated: 25^th February, 2026

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Location: Longbridge Retirement Village, 2 Austin Way, Longbridge, B31 2FZ
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Focus Birmingham brings festive magic with city’s only purpose built sensory Santa’s Grotto

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Focus Birmingham brings festive magic with city’s only purpose built sensory Santa’s Grotto

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Focus Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Week 2025

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Our impact

24,087

1 in 5

75%

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