Welcome to the VISION 2020 UK website

VISION 2020 UK is an umbrella organisation which facilitates greater collaboration and co-operation between organisations within the UK, which focus on vision impairment and operate on a national, regional or international basis.

VISION 2020 UK is a supporting member of the VISION 2020 Global Initiative. For details of the worldwide programme or to make enquiries, please click anywhere on this text.

VISION 2020 UKs objectives are:

• To prevent avoidable blindness


• To improve the quality of services to visually impaired people


• To improve the training available to professionals providing advice and services


• To improve communication between organisations within the VI Sector


• To improve the availability of information to visually impaired people


• To ensure that the voices of the visually impaired are heard when planning services and their opinions sought on key issues affecting their lives


• To raise public awareness of the issues and problems relating to sight loss

In addition to the above, VISION 2020 UK will seek to provide a unified response on key issues affecting visually impaired people and to provide visual impairment sector representatives for consultation groups, working parties and project groups.

UK Vision Strategy
The UK Vision Strategy is a VISION 2020 UK initiative led by RNIB to develop a unified plan for action on all issues relating to vision, across the four countries of the UK.

For more information go to UK Vision Strategy Information