The National Blind Children's Society (NBCS) was founded in December 1995 by Roderick Carne, who himself is registered blind. His belief was that a child who has a visual impairment and their parents, having come to terms with the burden of a disability, should not also have to struggle in the search for help in gaining what is rightfully theirs. We offer help and support from the moment a child is diagnosed, usually at birth, through each key stage of their education to the age of twenty-five.