ACTIVITY GROUPS
As with the Social Groups, the Association actively encourages and
supports a variety of vocational interest groups such as crafts, rifle
shooting, boating, bowls, walking, gardening, fishing and pottery.
In the large conurbation of Lowestoft these activities are coordinated through:
- Lowestoft Visually Impaired Activities Group
- Lowestoft Live Arts
- Lowestoft Blind Bowls Club
Across the rest of East Suffolk they tend to be spin-offs from one of the Social Groups, and are largely self supporting.
Each year the Lowestoft Blind Bowls Club hold a week long competition,
which is attended by Blind Bowls Clubs from around the country.
This event is very popular and successful.
The Felixstowe Blind Shooting Club meet every 2 weeks and recently three of its members entered the national championship in Wolverhampton and one of them became English and UK Champion for 2010, which is a fabulous achievement.
It is also worth noting that increasingly, local
cinemas and theatres are putting on performances of shows using audio
description specifically for the visually impaired.
For cinemas, go to
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/ad.html
For The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, go to
http://www.wolseytheatre.co.uk
For
the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, go to
http://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/ol_brochure.php
For
the Marina Theatre in Lowestoft, go to
http://www.marinatheatre.co.uk/index.html