- Love Your Lenses Week! It’s ‘Love Your Lenses’ week, organised by the General Optical Council to promote good practice for contact lens wearers! It’s easy to fall into bad habits, especially when you’ve been wearing contact lenses for a while but it’s so important to ensure you wash and dry your hands carefully before inserting or removing lenses. It’s Read more »
- Contact Lens Recycling is here! Our contact lens recycling box is here! So next time you pick up a batch of lenses, bring any of your old disposable lenses, blister packs & foils to our practice, pop them in the box & TerraCycle UK will do the rest! You don’t even need to be one of our patients, just pop Read more »
- Contact Lens Recycling Scheme! We are really excited to announce that we have signed up to the contact lens recycling scheme via TerraCycle UK! Once we have our collection boxes we will be able to take your used lenses, blister packs & foils. These will then be sorted, shredded and washed and turned into hard-granulated plastic granules which can be Read more »
- Christmas Opening Hours Please take note of our Christmas Opening Hours and ensure you pick up any outstanding glasses and contact lenses in time! We would also like to take this opportunity to wish all our patients a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!! Read more »
- Paint Purley Purple This year we again took part in the South East Cancer Help Centre’s fundraising week ‘Paint Purley Purple’. For every pair of glasses we sold during that week we donated £10 and this year we are very happy to say we raised £332.95 for the centre! Thank you to everyone who came in and bought Read more »
- Myopia Management for Children If you have been told your child is shortsighted (also called myopia), you are not alone. Myopia is increasing globally and over the past couple of decades alot of research has been undertaken to assess why the eyeball changes during childhood growth. As a result of these investigations, ‘Myopia Management Contact Lenses’ have been developed Read more »
- Paint Purley Purple!! We love taking part in the South East Cancer Help Centre’s annual fund-raising week, Paint Purley Purple and this year we pledged to donate £10 from every pair of glasses sold during that week. We are so delighted to announce that we raised £290 and would like to thank all the patients who came to Read more »
- Live Well In Purley – Saturday 22nd September We are delighted to be attending this year’s ‘Live Well In Purley’ event at Christ Church this Saturday (22nd September). Our Manager and Dispensing Optician, Neeta, will be there, along with our Optometrist, Bev and our lovely Receptionist, Debbie, to answer your questions on eye health, sight, lenses and……well anything to do with eyes! Entry Read more »
- New sight test checks for drivers Three police forces will test eyesight of all drivers stopped Image copyrightTVP Drivers who fail to read a number plate from 20m (65ft) away when stopped by police will have their licences revoked immediately in a new crackdown. Three forces in England are planning to test every motorist they stop in a bid to clamp Read more »
- Paul & Joe Open Day! We had such a great time at our Paul & Joe Open Day on Saturday 14th July! It was great to meet so many new faces and also to see some of our regular patients who popped in to say hello and buy some fabulous sunglasses! Here’s a few photos from the day with patients Read more »