GAB provides the following services and facilities to the 3200 registered blind or partially sighted people who live in the following areas:

Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen, Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent:

• Rehabilitation and mobility work: enabling independence for visually impaired people
• Social and sporting clubs: rambling, yoga, art etc.
• Comprehensive Resource Centre display of equipment and aids: talking watches, equipment for safe food preparation, leisure products, even gadgets to stop a walking stick falling
• Braille lessons, help with talking computers, training on the use of other high-tech equipment such as talking book machines
• Outings and activities such as group holidays to specialist hotels for the visually impaired, visits to local shopping centres, trips to garden centres etc.
• Awareness training for businesses, organisations, the care sector and local authorities: teaching others about eye conditions and how they can help people with poor sight
• Ring around: a weekly phone call for a friendly chat and help with problems
• Grants towards the cost of equipment
• Quarterly newsletter keeping people advised of activities, advancements in treatment and other information
• Transcription services into Braille, Large Print, Audio tape and computer disk
• Talking Book services and provision of radio/cassette/CD players on behalf of Wireless for the Blind
• Befriending schemes for socially isolated individuals. All our workers and volunteers are CRB checked regularly and are comprehensively trained in the work they undertake
• Work experience placements for people with a visual impairment