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• Kent Association for the Blind and CRB Checks for Volunteers

    In a news item on 14th March on BBC News South East, KAB was criticised for carrying out unnecessary CRB checks for Volunteers. Here KAB's Chief Executive, Karen Osborn, responds to the item: KAB places the highest priority on the wellbeing of our ...

• Maidstone MP presents cheque at Sainsbury's

  On a recent visit to Sainsbury’s store at Romney Place in Maidstone, Helen Grant, MP for Maidstone, and Lea Pulling, Sainsbury’s Romney Place Store Manager, presented a cheque for £1,000 to Kent Association for the Blind (KAB). Maidstone MP Hele...

• Happy couple meet through KAB

  David and Sylvia met through KAB and were married on December 1st On Wednesday December 1st at 2.40, The Corn Exchange, North Gate, Rochester, Sylvia Hunt and David Edden both visually impaired residents of Gillingham, tied the knot in front of f...

• KAB plans for challenging times ahead

  KAB Rehab worker, Cheryl Curd working with visually impaired service user Dee Gillis November is 'Make a Will Month' – a scheme designed to encourage people across the UK to make a donation or to leave a gift in their Will to nine UK national c...

• Mayor's Charity of the Year Donation to KAB Bromley

  The presentation was attended by staff, service users and volunteers from KAB Bromley On Wednesday 20th October at The Bromley Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, BR1 3UH, Councillor Auld, former Mayor of Bromley presented a cheque to Kent Association...

• Eyes Wide Open with an Element of blind genius

  Creative art by sight impaired residents of the Medway Towns challenges perception at Rochester Cathedral in October. Rochester Cathedral is proud to host Eyes Wide Open, an exhibition of work by members of Kent Association for the Blind (KAB) and t...

• Sound the Trumpet!

  The celebrated Kent-based vocal ensemble Quintus has teamed up with Kent Association for the Blind to put on a fund-raising concert for the Association. Quintus vocal ensemble The concert, which will take place at 7.30pm on Saturday 13th Novem...

• KAB Canterbury holds ‘See it Our Way’ Sight Exhibition

  On Wednesday 25th August at Trinity Resource Centre, Margate, from 10am – 2pm, KAB will host an exhibition of ideas, advice and equipment to inform Thanet's local people who have sight loss. Rehab Worker Debs Fisher at KAB Canterbury comments: "It's sur...

• Priory School boys win £3,000 for KAB

  On Tuesday 28th June four 15 year old boys from The Priory School in Orpington, were presented with a cheque for £3,000, which they had won on behalf of Kent Association for the Blind. The money was presented by the Youth & Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) ...

• Sainsbury's select KAB to be its local charity of the year

    On Friday 16th and Saturday 17th July, Sainsbury's at Romney Place in Maidstone kicks off its partnership with Kent Association for the Blind, holding two days of in-store events designed to appeal to both Sainsbury's staff and customers and to raise ...

• KAB runs Microwave Cooking for Sight Impaired People

  Kent Association for the Blind is once again running its hugely popular and useful Microwave Cookery Class for people with a sight impairment. On Wednesday 4th and 11th August four people who are registered sight impaired with the Maidstone and Gravesend ...

• Sainsbury’s Romney Place raises over £800 for KAB

  On Friday 16th and Saturday 17th July, Sainsbury's Romney Place held a weekend of in-store events designed to appeal to both Sainsbury's staff and customers and to raise money for and awareness of KAB and its local services for people with sight loss. Co...