Read Daniel’s story about his challenges during his studies at secondary school and college, with his advice for other blind or partially sighted students.
Find out more about 'Daniel’s Story: Fight for Your Education'Read Sarah’s story of how music provided her with calmness following a sudden sight loss diagnosis while at university, and how she keeps playing today.
Find out more about 'Sarah’s Story: The Healing Power of Music'Mariwan Inferadi shares his journey through education into employment and how Thomas Pocklington Trust’s Works For Me programme helped him into employment.
Find out more about 'Overcoming The Final Hurdle to Employment : Mariwan Inferadi'Read Alex's story of the challenges she faced as partially sighted student in mainstream college, and her advice on how colleges could improve.
Find out more about 'Alex’s Story: Accessibility at College'To celebrate World Braille Day, we examine the use of braille today comparing the perspectives of people who actively use braille now and those who do not, as well as those who want to learn it now and those who perhaps wish they had done so earlier in life.
Find out more about 'Exploring the perspectives on learning and using braille'Here we speak to TPT colleagues Alex Henderson, Ashfaq Azim and Kevin Satizabal, who are visually impaired themselves, to discuss how they’ve been finding working from home and what tips they have for blind and partially sighted people in a similar position.
Find out more about 'Working from home: tips and advice during lockdown'Over the last 12 years, Daniel Dracott has worked his way up from starting as a graduate to his current role as a software company. We caught up Daniel to find out about his role, the adjustments that he needs and how supportive his company has been.
Find out more about 'Being Recognised For Your Skills: Daniel Dracott'Callum Stoneman is a Network Designer at BT through its graduate scheme. We share his story securing this role and a video one year later with what working means to him, the assistive technology he uses and advice to other blind and partially sighted people looking to progress their careers.
Find out more about 'Seeing Beyond Disability: Callum Stoneman'Kaukub Asia is a Social Worker working with young offenders in West Yorkshire at Kirklees Council. When she was training to be a Social Worker, she was told repeatedly by her peers she wouldn’t be able to succeed because of her vision impairment. Read her story
Find out more about 'Anything is Possible: Kaukub Asia'Being visually impaired (VI), Kate brought a new perspective to the company to streamline how the switchboard team operate. Read her employment story.
Find out more about 'Streamlining Company Processes: Kate Ramsden'Helpful, equal and open-minded is how visually impaired employee Lena Welch describes her employer. Read about her employment journey.
Find out more about 'Go for it: Lena Welch'Ines Higgins talks about her long journey into employment and how her supportive employer has helped her thrive in her role.
Find out more about 'Employers Getting it Right: Ines Higgins'How is someone with almost no sight able to scale climbing walls and large rockfaces? Jesse Dufton tells us about his passion for climbing and how his climber's perspective has helped in his career.
Find out more about 'Climbing Blind: Jesse’s Inspiring Journey'Laura Kennedy shares her experience of volunteering at Merseyside Sight Loss Council.
Find out more about 'Volunteering gave me my life back'Former communications Intern, Alex Henderson, shares his experience of interviewing for his role at Thomas Pocklington Trust.
Find out more about 'Always Ask a Question: Alex’s Intern Journey'
