Visual impairment can lead to isolation and lack of social contact. Sport has been found to be the ideal antidote to this. Ten-pin bowling enthusiast Jo Dixon, a member of a blind ten-pin bowling team, claims that the sport has turned her life around.

Dixon, along with other members of a bowling team from British Blind Sports, joined hands with, U.K. charity, The Cambridgeshire Society for the blind and partially sighted (Cam Sight) to organise ten-pin bowling sessions for visually impaired people in Cambridge, in January.

British Blind Sports encourages visually impaired and partially sighted people to participate in sport at every level, from grassroots to the Paralympics. The charity believes sport can offer numerous benefits to blind people including improved health and mobility, the opportunity to make new friends and greater independence.

Cam Sight is hoping to hold regular sessions with the aim of forming a team to compete in ten-pin bowling leagues.