Recycle for Sight

Lions clubs have been collecting and recycling unwanted pairs of glasses since 1967 and what started as a single club activity has grown to become a nationwide effort with clubs from across the UK collecting millions of pairs of spectacles over the last 35 years.

All the specs you donate are sorted by a team of volunteers in our recycling centres. Glasses are sent to the Lions run facility called Medico France in Le Havre. From the centre in Le Havre glasses are resorted and graded and shipped to many countries around the world, such as Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria and Nepal.

We support volunteers from the ‘Unite for Sight’ charity with a supply of spectacles to take with them on missions to countries across the world.

We also work with a variety of other charities using existing shipping routes to get glasses to those in need. We have worked with The National Police aid Charity, with various Lions Clubs in Ghana and The Gambia, The Army and other Charities working in Nigeria, Kenya and The Philippines.

Recycling of scrap material from broken and unsuitable spectacles yields funds which support the sorting operation and enable us to give financial support to eye related projects in the UK and overseas.

Donate your used glasses at:

Boots Opticians

Alton Hearing Care

Rawlings

Blinx Opticians (Kingsley)

Leightons

Specsavers

Amery Hill School

Eggars School

Treloars School and College

They can also be handed in at the monthly craft market on Cross & Pillory Lane (2nd Saturday of the month March – December)