Partners
Rolled Sleeves Foundation works with funders, companies, eye-care professionals and delivery partners to help school communities move from identifying vision needs to accessing appropriate support.
Partnerships are built around what needs to be delivered, not simply where a logo can be placed.
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A learner may be screened and identified as needing further support, yet still face barriers to examination, prescription correction, assistive tools, referral or follow-through.
Partners help Rolled Sleeves build the practical pathway between those stages.
The goal is not simply to fund an outreach day. It is to help make appropriate care reachable.
School-community partnership
Rather than funding isolated activities, partners can support a structured school-community programme built around the Rolled Sleeves Vision Pathway.
Depending on the programme, support may contribute to screening, professional examinations, prescription spectacles, low-vision or assistive tools, eye-health education, referrals, coordination, follow-through and impact reporting.
The exact programme is scoped before commitments are made.
Partnership pathways
Funding partners
Companies, foundations and philanthropic partners can help finance complete school-community programmes or specific components of the Rolled Sleeves Vision Pathway.
Eye-care partners
Rolled Sleeves works with appropriately qualified professionals and eye-care organisations whose expertise is essential to assessment, prescribing, referral and appropriate care.
Delivery partners
Some of the most important access barriers are practical. Delivery partners can help make agreed care and programme infrastructure reachable.
Our approach
Establish the school context, programme need and intended outcomes.
Define what the partnership would support, who is responsible for each component and what can realistically be delivered.
Document deliverables, funding, responsibilities, timelines, reporting and appropriate recognition.
Coordinate the agreed programme with school, professional and delivery partners.
Provide clear documentation of programme delivery, outcomes and outstanding follow-through where relevant.
Partner accountability
Depending on the partnership, Rolled Sleeves can provide a clear record of what support enabled and how the programme was delivered.
What was planned, delivered and outstanding.
Relevant programme-level figures and outcomes.
Appropriate recognition across agreed Rolled Sleeves channels and programme materials.
Approved programme photography and storytelling where appropriate and consented.
Insight into access barriers, programme delivery and future opportunities.
A direct connection to the development of a practical school-community vision model.
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Recognition
Where appropriate, funding and delivery partners may be acknowledged through agreed Rolled Sleeves channels and programme materials.
This may include website recognition, programme materials, social communication, impact reporting, approved press activity, programme signage and relevant stakeholder communication.
Recognition is agreed according to the nature of the partnership, the school environment and the dignity of participating learners.
Our principles
Partnership does not change who the work is for.
Rolled Sleeves will not design programmes around publicity at the expense of learner need.
What we report
Where information is incomplete, we say so.
Funding partners
For companies, corporate social investment teams and foundations, Rolled Sleeves can develop a defined programme around an agreed school community, geography or component of the Vision Pathway.
Professional partners
We welcome conversations with optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical practices, low-vision specialists, laboratories and other appropriately qualified eye-care organisations interested in supporting school-community access.
Rolled Sleeves coordinates the programme. Professionals retain responsibility for clinical decisions within their scope of practice.
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You do not need a finished proposal. Tell us enough to understand your organisation, the kind of support you are considering and where there may be a practical fit.
Partnership by design
The strongest partnerships solve a real problem.
Rolled Sleeves is building a model where funding, professional expertise, school coordination and practical delivery work together around one objective: helping learners reach the vision support they actually need.
