March Webinar

My name is Jonathan Ward and I’m currently employed by Thomas Pocklington Trust as a Development Manager in the employment team. My brief is to find ways and to develop services that support blind and partially sighted people who are furthest from employment and a little closer to their dream of volunteering or working.

I’ve been partially sighted for close on 50 years, but I can remember being able to pick up a newspaper and read the smallest print and being able to see people’s faces. I’ve a one-of-a-kind macular disease. This means I don’t see any detail, so no faces and I can read only the largest of text. I can see to move around.

For nearly 40 years I’ve been supporting blind and partially sighted people to live independently, both directly then as a manager of services. In my spare time I play sport and towards the end of the last century I competed in 4 Paralympic games. I even feature on Wikipedia!