📅 Wednesday 15th April 2026 | 🕐 13:00–14:00
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See Cymru Differently – Hiraeth’ is a three-year National Lottery Community funded project led by the RNIB in partnership with Tirweddau Cymru / Landscapes Wales. The project began in April 2025 and is already delivering new ways of thinking around inclusive access and wellbeing in our Welsh Designated Landscapes.
There are two main aims of See Cymru Differently:
- To make Wales’ National Parks and National Landscapes truly accessible for blind and partially sighted people. This will include a number of exciting initiatives, from mapping accessible and sensory walks to exploring ways in which we can improve access and connection to our Landscapes and visitor centres, including testing a number of innovative tech solutions, and providing sight loss awareness training for staff and volunteers to better support colleagues and visitors with visual impairments.
- To raise awareness of eye health and sight loss in rural communities by engaging with organisations like Yellow Wellies, our Ffermio Bro advisors, Young Farmers Cymru, local vets, and farmers’ unions. This will include the delivery of short, fun and impactful training events across Wales to ensure that people living in remote rural areas and engaged in traditional occupations such as farming are aware of the importance of eye safety, learn practical ways to look after their eyesight, and where to go for support, hopefully reducing preventable sight loss and eye injuries across Wales.
About the Speakers
Gareth Davies works as the See Cymru Differently Lead at the RNIB. With over 25 years of experience within the social justice & disability sectors, Gareth is now focused on collaborating to make Wales and the UK’s National Parks and Landscapes as accessible for all especially those living with sight loss. At the same time, raising awareness of the challenges sight loss is rural communities brings with a particular emphasis of reducing the number of farmers losing their sight needlessly.