Christine Wisdom Retires (20th June 2007) | 
| After nearly 9 years with GCAB, Christine has decided to retire. Ann Lightfoot, Acting Chair, presented her with some Orchids but too big to get in the centre was a Garden seat where she and husband Peter can relax in the outdoors. Muriel Smith, a past GCAB Chair, also paid tribute to Christine's work for the association. Celia Kelly is taking her place working with our volunteers. More pictures soon. | 
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| At the April 2007 Trustee meeting, Ann Lightfoot was voted Acting Chair of GCAB with Tim Rice and David Short agreeing to support her as Acting Vice Chair. |
| | Pam Graham has been appointed as one of our 3 Visiting Advisors, replacing Karen Smart who has decided to with her family, to emigrate to South Africa. Pam was previously in charge of the VIP Hester's Way unit of the Gloucestershire Library Service so has a wide experience of working with the needs of our membership. |
| Laurence Robertson, MP for Tewkesbury, receiving a donation from Adam Tugwell at the Cheltenham Sainsbury's (Tewkesbury Road) collection on the 21st April 2007. Thanks to all others who contributed and helped. |
Thank you Stroud (31st March 2007) |  | Pictured are (L to R) Stuart Bexon, David Drew MP plus Alf James and Glynis, his daughter. | Enthusiastically helped by Stroud MP, David Drew, we collected well over £950 at Waitrose supermarket in Stroud on March 31st. A big thank you to all who helped and to the generosity of the shoppers for making this a very welcome fundraising event. We rely heavily on donations for our income to help us support over 3,000 visually impaired people in Gloucestershire – a job we having been doing passionately since 1858. |
Mr Steve Martin - GCAB New General Manager | We are very pleased to announce that Steve Martin has been appointed General Manager of GCAB with effect from today, Monday 26th March 2007. Steve will report to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees; this position is currently held on a Acting basis by Tim Rice and David Short. Steve has several years of experience working with the visually impaired. In 2000 Steve held the post of Assistant Director of the Devon County Association for the Blind and in June 2005 was appointed General Manager of the Forge, the Forest of Dean Association for the Visually Impaired. Steve brings with him a wealth of management experience which will help GCAB develop its activities and support to all the visually impaired in the County of Gloucestershire. | 
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| Once again, a big thank-you to University Students, Daisy, Gemma, Hazel and Jo for helping us collect over £200 in the Regent Arcade, Cheltenham on the 17th December 2006. |
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Monday, 23rd October 2006Our director Marcus Green has decided to resign and go to pastures new. The trustees have decided to seek a replacement but as a General Manager post.The advertisement for this is to be published on the 25th October 2006 but can be here now.
Friday, 4th November 2005 Tory Leadership Challenger Visits GCAB  |  |  |  | | David Davis MP, the Shadow Home Secretary visited us on Friday 4th November 2005 at 2.00pm. David Davis came to visit Cheltenham as part of his National Campaign to become Leader of the Conservative Party. He launched GCAB's new fundraising challenge initiatives. (Bottom Left) |
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The challenges are:-  Parachuting in the Cotswolds
Running the Bath Half Marathon Hanoi to Saigon Bike Ride, (Vietnam) Everest Base Camp Trek, (Nepal) Mongolian Horse Riding Challenge (Mongolia) Rajasthan Tiger Bike Ride (India) Firewalking in Cheltenham (Full details here) |
| We are delighted to welcome Eve Crystal to the team who is to be visiting service co-ordinator for parts of Cheltenham and North Cotswolds. She has taken over from Claire Manigrasso who has moved on to pastures new. |
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| Martin Horwood - Newly elected MP for Cheltenham. GCAB was pleased to receive Martin to the Albion Street Resources Centre on the 31st May 2005 where he was very impressed with the facilities GCAB has to offer to visually impaired people in Gloucestershire. This was particularly relevant as he has only made his maiden speech in Parliament on the 24th May, the subject being Health and Education. | 
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| 18th May 2005 - Jennie Smart, Vice Chairman expressed great appreciation for the work done and presented certificates to many of the 30 volunteers attending. More pictures HERE |
| Doreen Langley seen here with husband, Ron has retired as a trustee after a busy 10 years service. Doreen was particularly active in connection with blind clubs and was the the staff's trustee representative. Jennie Smart, Vice Chairman, presented her with flowers and gifts as a token of our appreciation. |
|  | We were fortunate to welcome Denise to our headquarters today accompanied by her husband Mark. She has been blind all her life and since co-winning the English National Opera/Channel 4 competition ‘Operatunity' in 2002 Denise has had a full diary of concerts, recordings and other professional engagements. She had appeared at Cheltenham Town Hall the previous evening with her co-winner, Jane Gilchrist. | It is no exaggeration that Denise thoroughly enjoyed her visit and particularly, all the goodies in the display and demonstration room. This is likely to make her poorer as she particularly took to one of the screen readers on display. She said that Gloucestershire was most fortunate to have such a facility and be able to experience the various equipment before buying.Her comprehensive website can be entered by clicking here. |  |
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