Are you finding words appear jumbled on the page, or a little fuzzy around the edges? Are your perceiving colours differently? A free and simple ChromaGen™ colour blindness and dyslexia assessment at our practice could put your mind at rest.

ChromaGen™ is a unique system of coloured lenses of a specific density and hue that are worn as either contact lenses or spectacles. For people suffering from colour deficiency or ‘colour blindness’, ChromaGen™ haploscopic filters work by changing the wavelength of each colour going into one or both eyes, which enhances colour perception and colour discrimination.

The simple assessment and wearing ChromaGen lenses can:

• Rule out or help with colour blindness
• Help with dyslexia, dyspraxia, migraines, and glare reduction
• Assist with feeling comfortable reading from computer screens
• Flag up issues with tracking the position of words when reading
• Help notice when words are seen as ‘moving’ or having ‘fuzzy edges’ and ‘jumbling’ letters
• Spot when you might see 6 and 9 looking similar when reading
• Help you avoid missing words, loosing alignment, and having to use a ruler to keep position. 

The assessments are free of charge for children and adults of any age they will be carried out in the privacy of the examination room by trained ChromaGen staff.

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Rest assured that all minor repairs of your spectacles can be handled by us over the festive period. We’re just closing for the bank holidays so our opening times are as follows:

Christmas Eve – open
Christmas Day – closed
Boxing Day – closed
Tuesday 27th Dec– closed
Wednesday 28th Dec – open
Thursday 29th Dec – open
Friday 30th Dec – open
Saturday 31st Dec – open
New Year’s Day – closed
Monday 2nd Jan – closed
Tuesday 3rd Jan –– opening times as usual.

Happy New Year from J. Oliver Radley Opticians!

Winter can be tough on the body, so why not give yourself an MOT!

We offer:

• NHS and Private eye examinations
• Free hearing checks
• Professional footcare

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Oliver, Terry, Edel, Oliver Goldsmith, the Mayor of Buntingford and James.

The Buntingford Late Night Shopping event was a great success last Friday, with the community enjoying the festivities and fantastic lights that now adorn the shops and streets around the High Street. 

As part of the celebrations at our practice, we invited one of the top eyewear designers, Oliver Goldsmith, to visit us. The Oliver Goldsmith collection is a very popular range for us, and we’re one of only eleven opticians in the UK who have the Oliver Goldsmith Vintage Collection available. It was fantastic to talk to Oliver about his Vintage Collection, which includes styles that were worn by celebrities in films, including Michael Caine, Audrey Hepburn, John Lennon and Peter Sellers.

Also joining us at the practice for the celebrations was Buntingford’s Mayor, Stan Bull.

Our chosen charity for the evening was Optometry Giving Sight, who relies on practices like ours, to help fund training of local people and building of vision centres in the developing world. We raised £73.79 for the charity from the evening’s donations, and J. Oliver Radley Opticians doubled this to make a £150 donation to Optometry Giving Sight.

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We can provide gift vouchers from just £10 for a practical Christmas present. These can be spent on eye care, sports eyewear, foot care, hearing services or contact lenses.

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At the Late Night Shopping Event, we will be supporting the charity Optometry Giving Sight. This is a fundraising initiative working with practices such as ourselves to help fund sustainable projects in the developing world through the training of local people and building of vision centres.

To date Optometry Giving Sight has funded projects in over 21 countries, trained over 2,200 local people to become eye care professionals and this has offered over 3.8 million people an eye examination and the spectacles they’ve needed.

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It might be cold outside, but inside our practice we’ve selected the very best eyewear collections for winter sports from Oakley and Adidas. So come in, keep warm and see what we have to offer!

Oakley’s winter sports sunglasses come in a wide range of colours, styles and provide UV protection and clear vision during the winter.  You can customise your sunglasses to create the perfect look for the slopes, driving or out and about in town.

Adidas ski sunglasses and goggles give clear vision, UV protection, secure fit and durability during harsh conditions on the slopes. And if you’re driving in the fog where glare can be a problem, Adidas sunglasses come with interchangeable lenses making them an excellent piece of kit for the winter.

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The Buntingford Late Night Shopping event is on Friday 2 December. We’d love you to join us at the practice on the night for a complimentary glass of wine or orange juice courtesy of Andrew at the Wine Cellar, and cheese tasting from Toby at the Cheese Platter.

Late Night Shopping is an excellent community event. The High Street is illuminated and the shops stay open until 8pm. You can watch the lighting of the ‘Lights of Love’ tree in aid o f Isabel Hospice, join in with the carol service and the kids can enjoy the fun fair and Santa’s Sleigh.

Buntingford local businesses pull out all the stops to make the Late Night Shopping event one to remember and the window displays along the High Street get you in the Christmas spirit. This year our practice has an exclusive winter display of flowers by Crazy Daisy in the fireplace, and Country Flowers are creating a festive display for our front desk.

Celebrity guest, designer Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith himself will join us at the event to showcase his OG Vintage Collection. (more…)

For 25 years Vision Aid Overseas has been helping some of the poorest people in the world to gain better sight, and we’re pleased to be supporting them in their quest.

At the practice we collect donated pairs of spectacles to send to the cause, and this month we’re donating cash to a team of optometrists who will fly to Ethiopia for two weeks in September to set up a new optical clinic.

The project includes training local Ethiopian optical mechanics on how to carry out eye examinations, to screen for disease, to refer for eye surgery and to issue a prescription for glasses. Then, poorer people with eye problems can for the first time undertake paid work and be able to support their extended family.

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If you’re a contact lens wearer, have you tried Biotrue™ solution from lens specialists Bausch and Lomb? Biotrue matches the pH of healthy tears to make putting in your contact lenses more comfortable while protecting the health of your eyes.

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