Everyone at the Dorset Blind Association is always delighted to welcome any new member to our extended team but late last year one person had even more reason than normal to celebrate the arrival of a new team mate We would just like to say a great big THANK YOU to all our members and volunteers who bought some of our raffle tickets or who cajoled friends and family into buying them Our general Service Provision Policy is to provide practical help and assistance for anyone suffering from sight loss, which enables those people to maintain full, healthy, independent and socially active lives for as long as possible, notwithstanding the impact of their sight loss Our main emphasis is to provide help and support directly into the community rather than expecting service users to come to us Tiffany Deacon has staffed our Help and Support Desk service at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital Eye Unit from when it was first set up in early 2009 and since that time has helped countless people, but what many of them may not have known or appreciated is that Tiffany herself is visually impaired