We are a company who believes in delivering a friendly & professional service, providing memorable moments for your customers.

We will:

• Provide you with hassle-free services which increase accessibility for blind and partially sighted audiences
• Promote these services through our social media and online platforms
• Support your staff in offering the best welcome for visually impaired visitors
• Feed-back afterwards with an ongoing dialogue about how to improve services

We offer:

• Live and recorded Audio description
• Live and recorded Audio introductions
• Live and recorded Visual Arts and Museum Tours
• Training for Museum and Gallery Staff to enable them to offer visual description
• Training for Customer facing staff in how best to welcome visually impaired customers

Open up access to your venue or your project by ensuring equality of access for all your customers. Contact Mind’s Eye to help advise you how.

Our qualified team, dedicated to your needs

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  Anne Hornsby

  Drama graduate of Bristol University, & an Arts Marketer, Anne began audio-describing in 1988. Anne established Mind's Eye in 1992. Anne describes around 100 spectacles a year, from Opera to Burlesque, Fine Art to chimpanzees.

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  Jane Ensell

  Jane worked for eight years as an audio describer for Sheffield Theatres, before branching out, with Mind's Eye and Vocaleyes, to describe art and performance across the country. She is always on the look out for the different and the difficult.

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  Pat Hayes

  Pat has been a professional audio describer since 2005, working around the UK. She mainly does theatre work - drama, comedy, thrillers, musical theatre, pantomime, classics. She has also audio described other cultural events, for galleries and short films.

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  Theo Hornsby-Walsh

  Theo has been working in audio description for around five years now. Although his main focus is on theatre, Theo has also described circus shows, TV series, feature films and even boxing matches. He loves his job due to the variety it offers from day to day, and the chance to interact with users of audio-description. He aims to adapt his description to enter into the spirit of each show, with an emphasis on vivid realism in his depiction of characters, movement and action.

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  Chris Berry

  Chris has worked with Mind’s Eye since 2005 describing theatre, gallery and museum exhibitions, and conferences and events around the country. Involved in acting and writing for pleasure, Chris likes describing comedy, and particularly enjoys describing thrillers such as Agatha Christie’s works and The Classic Theatre Company productions, as it gives him the opportunity to study professional acting

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  Michael Hurst

  A musician from Liverpool Michael has been describing since 2005 in theatres, museums and galleries across the north-west of England.

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  Faith Florence Agaba

  Faith is a British-Ugandan working in education & refugee support in Liverpool. Since completing training with Mind’s Eye in the spring of 2023, she is thrilled to be providing audio-description at theatres & arts events around the North West. She can also be heard calling women’s regional cricket on livestream for Lancashire.

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  Paula Cookland Burns

  With over 20 years’ experience in theatre, Paula originally trained as an actor for stage, before going on to work in Theatre Front of House teams, Events and Box Offices.

  Paula currently works as a House Manager for a leading regional theatre, alongside freelance Audio Describer work for live theatre. Paula particularly enjoys describing Musical Theatre and is passionate about making theatre accessible for all. Originally from Northern Ireland, she is now based in Yorkshire.

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  Davinia Jokhi

  Davinia is currently the Artist Development Producer for Theatre at HOME Manchester and has a long history working in artist development with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme and Arts Council England. She trained in audio description with Mind’s Eye and has been providing Audio Description for performance for the last 18 months. Every show is a learning experience.

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  Remy Lloyd

  Based in the Midlands, Remy has led on Access and Community Outreach at Wolverhampton Grand since 2018, working alongside Mind’s Eye to support with audio described performances and touch tours since then. She trained to become a describer with Mind’s Eye in 2023 and has described a mixture of plays, musicals and pantomimes since then.

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  Maria Major

  Maria has been describing for Mind's Eye since 2023 and is based in the North West of England. Audio description fits beautifully with her portfolio of work including continuity announcing, theatre marketing and acting.

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  Nicola Williams

  Based in Oxfordshire, Nicola began audio describing for Mind’s Eye in 2023 with her first show being Around the World in 80 Days at Cambridge Arts Theatre. Nicola has been a qualified BSL Interpreter since 2010 and regularly interprets on stage around the UK. She is looking forward to describing more in the future.