After a British Summer that meant if you blinked, you quite literally missed it! The Eyecare Trust has teamed up with Rubicon Exotic to launch a sunglass collection scheme.

The Save our Sight (SOS) campaign will ask the public to recycle their old sunglasses in collection boxes located in optician practices across the UK. All donated shades will then be checked to ensure they provide adequate UV protection before being distributed at free eye camps throughout India, where 77 per cent of all blindness is due to cataracts. For more information about the campaign visit:

Will you answer our SOS? More than 4,000 opticians have already been invited to participate in the Save our Sight campaign. However, if you’d like to take part and haven’t received a recycling box and marketing kit please email your details to: pr@eyecaretrust.org.uk Click here for more information about the campaign.

Over 3.8 million female motorists put vanity before safety by failing to wear their prescribed specs whilst driving.

Over a quarter (27 per cent) of female motorists should wear glasses whilst driving but do not always do so...

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A vision screening clinic run by the Trust was recently filmed by the BBC for a programme on eyecare on the NHS.

The clinic highlighted the importance of regular eyecare and raised awareness of NHS entitlements.

Dominic Littlewood (pictured above with ET Trustee, Rosie Gavzey) presents the programme which is due to be broadcast on BBC1 Daytime during w/c 22 September.

Here’s a date for your diary! National Eye Week 2008 will run from 24 - 30 November.

Watch this space for more information about our exciting plans for the week and how you can get involved.