October 2009
Children's
Department celebrates 10th Birthday!
BCBS launches its "Get Active" Sports Club for
children and young people, with the support of British Blind Sport.
Peter Mutch and Matthew Beasley ran for BCBS in the London Royal Parks
Foundation Half Marathon.
September 2009
Greenham
Common Sponsored walk raises over £1,000 for BCBS.
April 2009
Emma
Haworth, whose daughter Gracie is
one of our young members, took part in this year's London Marathon and
has so far raised over £1,650. Thank you Emma!
December
2008
BCBS
was awarded a Partnership Development Fund grant of
£6624 over 2 years
by the Berkshire West NHS Trust to support the development
its
activities programme. BCBS also secured a grant of
£1,050 from Sport
Relief to encourage visually impaired people to take part in a sport or
physical activity of their choice.
Another
recent donation was £1,300 from the Berkshire Community
Foundation to
develop a Road Show. BCBS will be taking it around the county to help
raise public awareness of both sight loss and the work of
BCBS.
September 2008
Our Walk with a difference around Virginia Water
Lake was a
resounding success, raising almost £8,000 thanks to the
generosity of our intrepid team of supporters including
Bakehouse
and Bank of Ireland Mortgages.
Staff at Computer
Associates, led by
Darren Butcher took part in the Windsor Half Marathon to raise over
£1,000 while, over in High Wycombe, Joanna Engle raised over
£300 by running in her local Half Marathon.
August
2008
In August the members of the Twyford Youth Club organised a Fun Day to
raise funds for BCBS. Sadly, the weather put many people off from
attending but they were still able to present BCBS with a cheque for
£170.
BCBS in the
news...
Baker's Boost for Children - August 2008
Thames
Water Team Challenge - May 2008
Sport
Relief Grant - January 2008
Royals welcomce BCBS Children's Group -
October 2007
Microsoft Makeover
Lottery
boost helps berkshire’s blind keep active - June 2007
Blind
youths take on sports stars - April 2006
AOL
Innovation in the Community Award August 2003
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