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Bradbury Fields
53°25′21″N 2°53′06″W / 53.4224°N 2.8850°W
Bradbury Fields is a charity based in Liverpool, UK, which works with blind and partially sighted people. It has been described by the BBC as "Liverpool's main charity for the blind" and is part of the 800 Group, a consortium of Merseyside health and care charities.
The organisation's main activities, as registered with the UK Charity Commission are:
Among the social activities provided to service users is a tandem riding club, featured in the BBC programme You and Yours. There is also an art group, running since 1997, which has held an exhibition at Liverpool Central Library, and an "online exhibition" in association with National Museums Liverpool.
In 2012, Bradbury Fields and OnThisROC started running a climbing club for visually impaired teenagers, allowing them to take part in the National Indoor Climbing Achievement Scheme.
The first formal meeting of what became Bradbury Fields was held in 1857 by a committee of 14 women, headed by founder Mary Wainwright, under the name "The Society For Supplying Home Teachers And Books In Moon's Systems or Embossed Type to Enable the Blind to Read". In particular, the organisation aimed to teach blind people to read scripture and the Bible.
In 1861 the Society merged with Liverpool Workshops for the Blind, then based in Liverpool's Bold Street, and was renamed the "Liverpool Society for Promoting the Welfare of the Blind". This saw a refocusing of the charity's aims to include providing employment and vocational training to blind people.
After going under a number of other names, including "Liverpool Home Teaching Society for the Blind", the organisation became "Liverpool Voluntary Society for the Blind" (LVSB) in 1970 in response to an increasingly large amount of the work of home teaching being carried out by Liverpool City Council.
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Bradbury Fields
53°25′21″N 2°53′06″W / 53.4224°N 2.8850°W
Bradbury Fields is a charity based in Liverpool, UK, which works with blind and partially sighted people. It has been described by the BBC as "Liverpool's main charity for the blind" and is part of the 800 Group, a consortium of Merseyside health and care charities.
The organisation's main activities, as registered with the UK Charity Commission are:
Among the social activities provided to service users is a tandem riding club, featured in the BBC programme You and Yours. There is also an art group, running since 1997, which has held an exhibition at Liverpool Central Library, and an "online exhibition" in association with National Museums Liverpool.
In 2012, Bradbury Fields and OnThisROC started running a climbing club for visually impaired teenagers, allowing them to take part in the National Indoor Climbing Achievement Scheme.
The first formal meeting of what became Bradbury Fields was held in 1857 by a committee of 14 women, headed by founder Mary Wainwright, under the name "The Society For Supplying Home Teachers And Books In Moon's Systems or Embossed Type to Enable the Blind to Read". In particular, the organisation aimed to teach blind people to read scripture and the Bible.
In 1861 the Society merged with Liverpool Workshops for the Blind, then based in Liverpool's Bold Street, and was renamed the "Liverpool Society for Promoting the Welfare of the Blind". This saw a refocusing of the charity's aims to include providing employment and vocational training to blind people.
After going under a number of other names, including "Liverpool Home Teaching Society for the Blind", the organisation became "Liverpool Voluntary Society for the Blind" (LVSB) in 1970 in response to an increasingly large amount of the work of home teaching being carried out by Liverpool City Council.