In this weeks issue, on sale from vendors across the UK, and via subscription, we hear how Specsavers’ partnerships with Big Issue, Crisis, Vision Care for Homeless People and Northern Ireland’s Simon Community are breaking down barriers that prevent people with experience of homelessness from accessing eye and hearing care.
Since 2022 Big Issue has worked with Specsavers, who are our tabard sponsors, to offer all our magazine sellers vouchers for free eye tests, eye health checks and prescription glasses. And we are also offering ear wax removal to all vendors.
In this week’s issue
In this week’s special edition we also delve into the wider work that Specsavers is doing to make sure everyone receives the health care they are entitled to. Including …
➡ How Big Issue founder Lord John Bird is working alongside Specsavers to support calls for a National Eye Health Strategy for NHS England.
➡ Joining Specsavers CEO John Perkins on his travels as he hears first-hand from people with experience of homelessness how the frontline work that Specsavers is supporting through their partnerships is having a real impact.
➡ Spotlight on the growing number of out of hours and drop-in clinics and eye and hearing health services that are being offered in conjunction with frontline charities including Crisis and VCHP across the UK.
