[Report 1960] / Glamorgan County Council, Welfare Services.

  • Glamorgan (Wales). County Council. Welfare Services.
Date:
1960
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Credit: [Report 1960] / Glamorgan County Council, Welfare Services. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Talking Books for the Blind Eleven machines are available in the Administrative County and, in the course of the year, were loaned with considerable benefit to 14 blind persons unable to read Braille or too ill to do craft work. Records are supplied directly by the Nuffield Talking Book Library for the Blind, for which no service charge is made. General Social Welfare of the Blind More than 1,600 blind persons and their guides enjoyed the 1959 summer outings. Parties journeyed from local Centres to Barry, Porthcawl, Port Eynon, Langland Bay, Cheltenham, Wye Valley, Llandrindod Wells, Llanstephen and Tenby. The cost of catering and transport for the programme of 14 outings, which were all outstandingly successful, was £1,172. During Christmas 1959, 1,593 blind persons and guides attended the 16 Christmas Parties arranged in various parts of the County and a hearty vote of thanks to the County Council for the fare and facilities provided was proposed at each party. To blind persons who, unfortunately, could not attend the parties because of infirmity or illness, you sent over 1,000 grocery vouchers valued 5/-d. each, exchangeable for Christmas fare at local shops. Supplementing these expressions of goodwill, every registered disabled person, blind and sighted, on the County’s Registers received from your Chairman a Christmas card expressing your good wishes and seasonal greetings. Throughout the year — but especially at Christmas — many offers are received from local people and organisations to provide entertainment and other forms of assistance to the blind, for example : The Pontypridd Townswomen’s Guild entertained the members of the Pontypridd Social Centre for the Blind with two play readings. The Caerphilly Social Centre for the Blind has received a gift of a piano from Mr. W. H. Compton, Fairwater, Cardiff. The Inner Wheel, Maesteg, Rotary Club, gave £1 in cash to each of 20 home-bound blind persons living in the Llynfi Valley. Mr. D. G. Woolley, Ynysybwl and Mr. Ivor Jenkins, Pontyclun, each made a gift of a wireless set for the use of a registered blind person. Mr. John Williams, Ferndale, donated a radiogram for use at Holly House Social Centre. It is my custom to thank on your behalf all who help so earnestly to make our work successful ; however I would like again to express thanks to the many persons who have helped in this work and particularly those who, throughout the year, voluntarily assist in running the Centres.