This strategy provides a direction of travel to help the organisation navigate future opportunities and challenges. Through consultation with our stakeholders, NESS has identified a number of actions that will continue to help the organisation ensure that it is delivering our mission of achieving independence for blind and deaf people. Throughout the document, at the foot of each page, we have highlighted key milestones in the organisation’s growth since 1879. All of these developments have contributed to our current success and will continue to underpin the future evolution of the organisation as we head towards our 150th anniversary.