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In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have implemented this Privacy Notice to inform you, our Service Users, of the types of data we process about you. We also include within this notice the reasons for processing your data, the lawful basis that permits us to process it, how long we keep [...]
You are extraordinary. You have built this charity. We could not cope without you. Tributes have been paid – at a celebratory thank-you lunch attended by up to 150 volunteers – to the 261 volunteers who underpin every element of the work of N-Vision, the Blackpool Fylde and Wyre Society for the Blind, which supports [...]
Tributes have been paid following the death of a Blackpool businessman and charity volunteer. Keith Gledhill MBE, 86, passed away at his home on October 7, only a few weeks after his wife Margaret passed away. The businessman from Marton founded the cylinder manufacturing company Gledhill in 1972, along with his brother Houghton and was [...]
Anyone for VI tennis? Our own Mark Aylott – whose art will be on display at Solaris in October – took up the challenge after North East VI tennis legend and inspirational coach Wendy Glasper visited South Shore Lawn Tennis Club to host some trial sessions – joining forces with club coach Peter Hamadi. Such [...]
N-Vision is supporting National Eye Health Week (Sept 24-30) the annual campaign to raise awareness of the importance of lifestyle changes to support good eye health, and the need for regular eye tests – regardless of whether or not you think your vision is reducing. Eye tests, as our eye clinic liaison officer Linda Sethi [...]
Our 3 Piers event made it to the front page of the Blackpool Gazette (OK, it was only a p1 taster!) and was the cover picture (the Beaverbrooks Gems Talking Newspaper team) for the weekly FYI community supplement together with a two page picture special featuring some of our walkers, runners. – including four legged [...]
Tributes have been paid to one of N-Vision’s finest, our late great veteran volunteer Ivy Broadbent M.B.E. Ivy’s funeral is on Wednesday Sept 5 12.30 at Lytham Crematorium. Our charity has been nominated for any donations received. Our thoughts are with Ivy’s family and many friends. Stephanie Beasley, volunteers co-ordinator at N-Vision, formerly the Blackpool Fylde [...]
Stella give their star centenarian a treat… left: Alan Meadows who cans the lager Mrs Eileen Maher drinks, Amanda Stephenson and Stanislav Chulkov brewery manager. A picture story in The Gazette on Blackpool’s “LAGER than life” centenarian saw Princess Alexandra Home resident Eileen Maher, 100, go viral … even trending on online publishers UNILAD with 50k plus shares. The [...]
We are pleased to announce that Sainsbury's on Whitegate Drive, Blackpool, have chosen us to be their local charity of the year! https://www.sainsburyslocalcharity.co.uk/
Mrs Eileen Maher is 30 years older than the NHS – and just three months younger than the RAF. She proved you’re never too old to party or pucker up to pout for your very first ‘selfie’ at 100 years old! Indomitable Eileen, Blackpool’s brand-new centenarian, posed for a selfie with some of her ‘bezzies’ at [...]
