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Bruce, age 9, is a creative star! He cut a star shape from Christmassy paper to make his decoration. He tells us "The star says 'Happy Christmas' in braille in the centre. It has beads to make it more tactile and bells so you can hear it twinkling." #TreeForTreats

These magical decorations were made by Dexter (9) and Ethan (4)! Dexter "decorated a wooden Christmas bauble with lots of tactile gems. I like the gems as they feel nice and sparkle in the light.” Ethan made a wonderful paperchain decorated with smiley faces. #TreeForTreats

“Jingle bells tactile Christmas tree.” by Eitan, age 8. This is such a wonderful way to create a tactile tree! Eitan laced white ribbon through black paper to create the shape of a tree and topped it with a golden gift bow. Well done! #TreeForTreats

Shining at the top of the tree is Felicity's shiny, silver, tactile Christmas star! She took a lot of care adding details to make her star tactile and accessible, and we love that it's covered in tactile VICTA rainbows. Well done! #TreeForTreats

Brodie's reindeer is full of Christmas magic! He transformed a wooden disc into a shimmering reindeer's face with snowflake sequins, a pink pom pom nose, wobbly eyes and antlers made from gold and silver pipe cleaners. #TreeForTreats

Flo's glittery cinnamon dough teddy bear is a joy for all the senses! With a green, glittery finish, bells to make him jingle and a cinnamon stick to bring the Christmas scents. Well done Flo! #TreeForTreats

Our winning secondary school is Moor End Academy Academy! Their reindeer are bursting with Christmas character with fun poses, expressions and orange slice tummies. The students won a pizza party, we hope you had lots of fun celebrating! #TreeForTreats

Our winning Primary School is PriestleySmithVISch, Birmingham. The children made reindeer transforming our trees into a reindeer wonderland! From decorated pine cones, to plates with weaved wool, they used different materials to make their decorations tactile and fun! #TreeForTreats

Secondary children at PriestleySmithVISch made colourful reindeer heads! They used all sorts of materials to make tactile reindeer full of personality. The have used collage, pens, paper shavings, glitter & corrugated card to create lots of textures & colours. #TreeForTreats

It's time to celebrate our winners! Runner up Stevie's reindeer is so special & full of wonderful details! Her tactile 'Norbert the Green nosed Reindeer' hangs from a tactile VICTA rainbow, the braille reads “Norbert the green nosed reindeer had a very runny nose”. #TreeForTreats

Our second runner up is Oscar (8). We loved how much colour and sparkle he has used to decorate his trees and hanging them from the tinsel really makes the decoration stand out! Well done to Oscar! #TreeForTreats

The winner of this year's competition is Dayzie, 15, who crocheted her reindeer without a pattern! He jingles & smells of grape soda & has a cotton bud white cane, the reindeer is the perfect friend to represent VICTA’s sensory Christmas! victa.org.uk/christmas/ #TreeForTreats

Our Patron Clarke Reynolds is here to launch our Braille Art Competition 2025 as we celebrate 200 years of Braille! Clarke (AKA the Blind Braille Artist) has set you is very own challenge! Find out more & how to take part at: victa.org.uk/victa-calendar… Clarke Reynolds #WorldBrailleDay

Check out the details for the Mersey Sharks Goalball Academy Aspire Day: ⏰Sunday 9th February - 12:45pm - 4pm 🌍Anfield Community Sports Centre, Lower Breck Road, Liverpool, L6 0AG Find out more info via the self-nomination form: forms.office.com/e/i602QRPKGn

Join the elites this February half-term & challenge yourself at our VI Athletics Taster Day with England Athletics. All abilities welcome, free to attend but you do need to apply for your place in advance. Put your name down at: victa.org.uk/victa-calendar… Leeds Beckett

Thrilled to be included in the #BSW25 community pack, watch out for our online Science Fair coming soon!

It's amazing to see the Street2Stadium programme in action at our Leeds hub as the participants tried out running, jumping and throwing events! 🏃‍♀️ The Street2Stadium programme was relaunched with the main goal of increasing the number of para athletes accessing regular athletics

A warm thank you to The Primary Club who are supporting our Sports Family Weekend through a generous donation thanks to their Murray Fund. Their funding will enable blind and partially sighted children to access a range of VI sports & find new passions!

Happy #WorldBookDay! Join our celebration for VI children age 0 to 10 years to receive a wonderful Voxblock audio book reader (while stocks last) thanks to British Wireless for the Blind Fund! For all the terms and conditions and to find out how to take part, visit: victastudents.org.uk/world-book-day…

When she was younger, Ruqaiya Asim was told she can't be an artist because she's visually impaired. Now, her exhibition "Can You See Me Now?" challenges stereotypes and is on show at London's Dagenham Learning Centre until Saturday. Barking and Dagenham Council VICTA UK