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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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