The Eye Fund A charity to support people losing their vision.
What a great night we all had at Ashville Lodge, home of The Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted. Although there were only 35 ‘Punters’ (health and safety) we made over £428 between the two charities.
Thanks to all who attended and many thanks to the volunteers who did a remarkable job looking after the visually-impaired.
We had a great race night on Saturday 16th April. It was a joint effort with the Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted and between us we raised £594.80.
Many thanks to those who took part and many, many thanks to the volunteers who helped. They can’t wait for the next one.
Once again Simon’s art is being exhibited but this time in a more prestigious place, at the Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, from 11th May to 5th June.
It will also be at Ashville Lodge, Birkenhead on 14th and 15th May. Hope you can make it along to either.
On Wednesday 10th July, Carol and Paul went to Ashville Lodge, home of the Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted, to present a Samsung Synapptic tablet to Karl Thompson.
Karl is 17 years old and has failing sight. He is a very bright boy and will be helped at school with his new tablet.
The Eye Fund trustees wish him lots of happy and successful hours.
On the 24th November Carol and Paul joined their good friends from the Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted at their annual Christmas Fair. This is always a great occasion and is as much fun as hard work.
£227 was raised for The Eye Fund.
While attending the launch of Vis-able (Visually Impaired Students Accessing Business, Learning and Enterprise) at Ashville Lodge, home of The Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted, we took the opportunity to present Montse Benitez with one of The Eye Fund’s favourite canvas prints, and one that she had commented on during her last visit.
The Montse Benitez Foundation has donated money to Ashville Lodge to enable them to buy a firing kiln for their pottery production.
I think the people in Birkenhead must be getting fed up with us by now. Only kidding—they have been very generous.
This was a new craft fair that hadn’t been there before and we were offered a free table as we are a charity. We couldn’t miss this opportunity to get to know other stall-holders and raise even more for the charity.
It was over the 2 days but only from 11:00am to 3:00pm. We finished the weekend taking £225.00.
We really had our work cut out that day. 10:00am we landed at Central Station in Liverpool, set up the banners, started to collect until 12:00 noon when our relief crew arrived. Then we dashed to Ashville Lodge in Birkenhead to take part in the Craft Fair.
We had arranged to set the stall up on Friday and for someone to attend the stall for us till we arrived at 12:30pm. By 4:00pm we had had enough and were glad to see other stalls packing up. Altogether it was a very successful day; £341.80 from Central Station and £221.50 from the craft fair.
Once again back to the Pavilion in Birkenhead Park. This time it was for World Sight Day, and we were there mainly to raise the awareness of the charity.
Among those there were The Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted, The Liaison Officer from The Eye Clinic, Arrowe Park Hospital and his assistant, the RNIB, and various commercial firms with their goods for sale.
This was not a day for selling but it was very interesting meeting all the different people involved with helping those with vision problems. As such, it was successful.