Contact Details

Address: Victoria Park (Main Centre)
61 Kitchener Avenue
Victoria Park 6100

Tel: (08) 9311 8202 or
Toll Free: 1800 847 466
Fax: (08) 9361 8696
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Welcome to the Association for the Blind of WA – Guide Dogs WA

Leisure Program

image of a client in the leisure programOur Leisure Program provides clients with opportunities to express themselves and contribute to their local community through creative and sensory activities. The program empowers clients to actively take control and be involved in making decisions on issues that impact on their lives. 

Leisure activities include:

  • First and Second Click computer courses that teach keyboard skills, word processing, internet and email*
  • Table and word games
  • Discussion groups and speakers
  • Creative writing
  • Music appreciation with DVDs and musicians
  • Handicrafts encompassing scrap booking, cane work, knitting, spinning and sewing
  • Mosaics
  • Pottery
  • Woodwork
  • Cooking
  • Conversational Italian
  • Community outings to restaurants, musicals, museums, art galleries, markets, etc.
  • Women's Health Club with shopping, facials, foot spas, nutrition and visits to cafés
  • Short Holidays

*The First and Second Click computer courses are available in Victoria Park, Albany, Bunbury and Rockingham.

Activities and equipment within the Program are modified using markers, magnifiers, assistive technology and lighting and uses the 4 ‘B's' strategy:

  • Bigger
  • Bolder
  • Brighter
  • Being organised 

The Leisure Program is client centred. It uses the self management and welness approach and is designed and reviewed every three months in response to clients' needs and feedback.

Transport Service

Volunteer drivers and staff transport seniors who are not able to travel on public transport or access external transport agencies to travel from their homes to participate in our leisure, sport and recreation programs.