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New POLICE frame range in stock, including a free football and mobile phone power bank with every purchase. Call in or arrange an appointment with one of our friendly dispensing opticians to view the range and organise your new specs.

Huge congratulations to our dispensing optician Rena and her partner Simon, on the safe arrival of baby Robyn Faith, weighing 9lb 1oz. Mother and baby are both very well and 2 year old Ashley loves his new baby sister.  Look out for them around town.

A huge thank you to our patients and clients who helped us raise £411.42 for the Optometry Giving Sight charity. This should help over a hundred people, in under developed countries, to access eyecare.
If you would still like to make a donation, please call into the practice or email uk@givingsight.org

Huge congratulations to our receptionist Rose and her partner Trevor, on the safe arrival of baby Hope Lily-Rose, weighing 8lb 1oz. Mother and baby are both very well.  Look out for them around town.

We would like to welcome our newest team member Sally, who has joined us as a customer service apprentice / trainee optical receptionist. Sally is replacing Rose who is shortly departing on maternity leave. We wish Rose the best of luck with her baby and look forward to seeing them both soon.

We now have the 2014 new Police range of frames in stock, including sunglasses, as worn by the young Brazillian football star Neymar Junior. Frames for prescription lenses from £69. Non prescription sunspecs from £99. Please call in to view the range.

Oxford Spires Rotary Club organise the World Pooh Sticks Championships near Wallingford on an annual basis and will take place this year on Sunday March 30th at Days Lock, Little Wittenham. Patricia Hayselden and Partners are happy to sponser this fun family event by donating pens and pencils for goody bags, prizes for the raffle and a money donation too. Wishing all competitors the best of luck. Please visit www.pooh-sticks.com for more information.

Thank you for helping us raise a massive £441

Patricia Hayselden & Partners have once again taken part in the World Sight Day Challenge, the largest annual global fundraising campaign to address avoidable blindness caused by uncorrected refractive error – simply because of the need for an eye exam and glasses.

Throughout October, Patricia and her colleagues have donated a proportion of the eye examination fees to help more than 600 million people in the world who are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to an eye exam or glasses. The campaign is run by global charity, Optometry Giving Sight.

I have proudly supported Optometry Giving Sight for 7 years. The World Sight Day Challenge is a very positive campaign because preventable blindness is a solvable problem. Everyone can make a difference.”
– Patricia Hayselden

The World Sight Day Challenge also featured new ‘people power’ wristbands to encourage everyone who visited Patricia Hayselden & Partners to make a donation and publicly show their support for Optometry Giving Sight. Thank you for your support.

It can cost just £3.00 to provide an eye examination and a pair of glasses in some developing countries. This alone could be enough to save someone from the injustices of poverty.

Participating is easy – simply arrange a regular donation at www.givingsight.org or make a one-off donation at the practice, which we will forward on to Optomertary Giving Sight.

Thanks to past donations, Optometry Giving Sight has been able to fund 67 projects in 38 countries. These include El Salvador, where last year our local partner Fudem screened 64,000 school children in extremely poor communities.

Primary schoolgirl Carla (pictured) was screened at the Centro Escolar Las Brisas school, in a very poor community in the Soyapango region. With an eye examination and a pair of glasses, Carla’s vision was restored, renewing her potential for a quality education and a life full of opportunity.

Huge congratulations to our employee Rena Cimmermanis who has graduated as a Dispensing Optician. Rena has been studying for the qualification since joining us and all of her hard work has now been rewarded. We look forward to seeing the pictures of her graduation in November.

Welcome to Rose Bennion who has joined us as a Trainee / Apprentice Optical Recptionist and Administrator. Following several weeks of interviews, we chose Rose for this position as her abilities and personality stood out above other candidates. She will be working full time at reception and also studying for an apprenticeship in Customer Services.