Meet the Team
Behind Essex Sight is a passionate team of staff and volunteers dedicated to supporting people living with sight loss across Essex. From service coordinators and outreach workers to charity leaders and trustees, every member of our team brings unique skills, experience, and compassion.
Together, we share one goal: to create a community where people with vision impairment feel supported, empowered, and included.
Jonathan Dixon
Director of Operations
Jonathan manages the overall operation of Essex Blind Charity. With a wide background of management from local government and charities, Jonathan is ensuring the Charity provides the best services for sight impaired people now and into the future.
Dawn Tracey
Development Manager
Dawn is based at the Colchester office, ensuring that Essex Sight is promoted within Essex and managing volunteers, resourcing for events and organising pop-ups around the county. Dawn has a background managing business support services.
Carol Massey
Community Outreach Practioner
Carol is a Community Outreach practioner. Carol has three sight centres, and spends her time between the office in Colchester and Chelmsford, Maldon and Brentwood Sight Centres, co-ordinating volunteers, equipment demonstrations and social activities. Carol is a fully qualified ECLO, and provides a home visiting service in the Mid-Essex area. When Carol is not running a sight centre she is in the office providing information, advice and guidance over the telephone.
Denise Sanders
Community Outreach Practioner
Denise is a Community Outreach practioner providing support in the north Essex area, looking after sight centres in Clacton, Walton and Halstead, and also providing a home visiting service in the Tendring areas. Denise is also a qualified ECLO, as a qualified Occupational Therapist, she is experienced in taking a ‘whole person’ approach to a persons physical and mental wellbeing by considering all their needs.
Christine Pratt
Eye Clinic Community Liaison Officer/Non Specialist Assessor
Christine is a full-time, qualified ECLO. Christine attends the eye clinic at Colchester Hospital on Mondays providing support to anyone struggling with sight loss, she takes patient referrals from other agencies and works in the community, carrying out home visits to assess a persons needs when living independently. Christine has a background in housing management and can draw on her experience to help people who may need advice or guidance with housing related issues.
Steve Massey
Community Outreach Officer
Steve is based at our Colchester office and also runs the Colchester Sight Centre on a Wednesday, providing support, advice and information as well as demonstrating our wide range of equipment. Steve has a background in community support working with public organisations and charities.