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Photo Exhibition for GCAB

Adrian Street, Norville Opticians branch manager in Dursley, Gloucestershire is an amateur photographer and is exhibiting some of his black and white images to raise money for a local charity.

Dursley Town Council run a scheme called On View that allows local artists to display their work in empty shop windows, and they have kindly given him some space at 29 Silver Street, Dursley for about 8 weeks.

Adrian says ‘I have never exhibited before and I’m hoping people will like my pictures as I’m going to donate the

money from any sales to an excellent local charity, the Gloucestershire County Association for the Blind. I would like to thank Norville

Opticians, who have paid for the photo printing, so that all of the money raised will go straight to GCAB.’ ‘Black and white is my favourite type of image and most that will be on display were taken around Gloucestershire. I don’t like altering my images with specialist editing software – I even prefer to take the photographs in monochrome – so apart from a bit of cropping what you will see is how the images were downloaded from my camera.’

For more information e-mail dursley@norville-opticians.co.uk

 

Brand New Computer Suite for Visually Impaired People!

We have 4 new computers that have software on them specific for people who are visually impaired to use them. The courses will start in the New Year and will consist of working with word, excel and using the Guide and Super Nova software. At the launch we had our patron Sir Henry Elwes, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire come along as well as Pete Wilson from BBC Radio Gloucestershire who pre recorded his show from our resource centre.

Photos are of Penny from Dolphin show the computer and software to one of our clients and Pete Wilson talking to Douglas Thomson and Sir Henry Elwes and Ann Lightfoot, our Chair of Trustees.

                                

 

 

Celebrating 150 years of GCAB

On Friday 5^th and Saturday 6^th September GCAB celebrated 150 years and we all had a great time doing so.

On the Friday special guests, our Patron Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire Henry Elwes and Dave Heeley, the Blind marathon runner attended to help celebrate the occasion and cut the cake with our Chair Ann Lightfoot.

Saturday’s open day was also a great success with around 80 people coming through the doors to help celebrate. We had a raffle on the day with first prize being a signed Richard Hammond t-shirt and book.

The lucky prize winners were

Signed t-shirt and Book – Dave Whittaker

Bottle of Sherry – Joyce Gilder

Calendar – Jim Baker

Book on 1950’s house keeping – Barbara Carter

The raffle raised a total of £113!

Good luck to everyone who entered our balloon race. Due to the bad weather conditions we delayed the release of the balloons to Wednesday afterwards. In total the balloon race raised £324.

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GCAB Invited to Buckingham Palace

Volunteer Stella Kent and Trustees, Hazel Holland and Mary Woolley were invited to represent GCAB at the June 2008 Garden Party.

 

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.

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.

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