Coping with Christmas

The usual stresses associated with Christmas – like – ‘turkey or goose?’ ‘home cooked cranberry sauce or shop bought?’ seem so trivial now.

Many of us are wondering how to manage the big question ‘who are we going to spend Christmas with this year and how are we going to afford it?’

We have created four top survival tips.

You won’t be allowed to sit on Santa’s knee this year but you can still enjoy your festive shopping. The usual way we Christmas shop will be different but you can still get what you need, while keeping safe and hydrated. We have compiled our top tips:

• Research where you want to go before heading out
  
  
• Make sure you eat and take refillable water bottle with you
  
  
• read on for the rest of our tips.....

We are delighted that the UK Cabinet Office, RNIB, Business Disability Forum, Aldi UK, Visionary, Thomas Pocklington Trust, Heathrow Airport, Gatwick Airport, Age UK and the MS Society are supporting the Please give me space initiative.

The business and charity sector are embracing Please give me space as a way to increase confidence and awareness of social distancing.

RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell spoke to Gareth Davies, from RNIB, and Chantal Boyle, from Hidden Disabilities Sunflower, to talk about the wearables and how they are getting the message out there, to the public and business sector.

You can listen to the podcast here.

Almost as soon as the UK went into lockdown, RNIB began hearing from customers about some of the difficulties they were having. e.