It is with great sadness we have to announce the passing of one of our most treasured members, Teri Holmes, matriarch, inspiration and rock of our Ashville Family. On Friday 3rd July, we unexpectedly lost this amazing lady. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mike, her partner 0f 20 years, her daughters Claire, Fiona and [...]
Dear Member and Friends, We are very happy to inform you all that we now have our plans in place and have re-opened Ashville Lodge. Unfortunately, we are not able to run the social groups at this time but hope that once things settle we can re-introduce the social elements of the Society. We will [...]
Jo is doing the 2.6 challenge (which is replacing the London Marathon) she's doing 26 challenges (blindfolded or wearing sim glasses) starting on Sunday 26th April with a 2.6 mile run around Bidston Windmill. This is the Just Giving page I have set up to raise funds and awareness for WSBPS. Hopefully some of [...]
Our 30th year celebrations started with a fantastic and really enjoyable Garden Party held at Ashville Lodge on Saturday 29th June. We were delighted to welcome friends, supporters and members, old and new, to celebrate with us. One of our Founder members, Derek Beauchamp gave a lovely speech about the start of the [...]
Congratulations to Jo Tudor and her brother Ian for completing their 30 mile bike ride on behalf of our 30th anniversary. Even a couple out strolling saw us at Seacombe Ferry, they saw our banner and Jo having her pictures taken, they kindly gave £10 to her, the generosity of the public has been overwhelming. [...]
Brilliant start to 2019 with a grant Awarded from the National Lottery Community Fund. 2019 is a big year for us in celebrating 30 years of service provision; we strive to continue to work within the ethos of our founder members taking a positive approach to sight loss and supporting people to achieve and continue [...]
We are delighted to have been awarded a grant from the Awards For All programme in support of our ‘Celebrating Senses’ project that will work to acknowledge and celebrate 30 years of service provision in Wirral. This is part of the National Lottery Community Grants and we are really excited as this grant will help [...]
A donation pf £750 was made by “The Neston Rotary Club” last week. Huge thanks for all of their support!
Dear all,Welcome to our last newsletter of 2018. This has been a year of reviews and developments for the Charity as we move into our 30th year in 2019. We are planning a big year to celebrate this milestone and hope it will be a successful and productive year for us. We will be promoting [...]
We are lucky to have such a good and committed team of volunteers and we always ensure we recognise their support to our Charity. This year we held a thank you lunch where we presented four awards for outstanding achievement, volunteer of the year and our young people’s volunteering awards.Outstanding Achievement was presented to David Pearce [...]
