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CHARITY: How many labradors can you fit in an articulated lorry? Castell Howell finds out for Guide Dogs

A Welsh food company has come up with an ingenious solution to an unlikely logistical puzzle – how to transport 30 life-sized labrador-shaped collecting boxes from near Wigan to South Wales, where Swansea prison inmates were waiting to restore them.

Castell Howell Foods, one of Wales’s largest family-run food wholesalers based in Cross Hands, stepped in after Guide Dogs charity found itself facing a 220-mile transport problem. The charity’s iconic collecting boxes – which help raise vital funds to support people with sight loss – had been awaiting repair at the Guide Dogs centre near Wigan and needed to make their way to HMP Swansea, where a prison workshop had agreed to restore them.

The solution was elegantly simple. One of Castell Howell’s empty lorries was diverted to its satellite depot at St Martin’s near Wrexham, collected the canine cargo, and brought all 30 boxes safely back to the company’s Cross Hands headquarters before onward delivery to Swansea.

Martin Jones, Castell Howell’s Director of Transport Operations, said the company had not hesitated when it heard of the charity’s predicament. “The Guide Dogs charity raises vital funds to support those with sight loss, so when we heard of their predicament we didn’t hesitate to offer a solution,” he said.

He added: “It was a real team effort, with staff at our St Martin’s depot playing a key role in ensuring the safe collection and delivery of the precious cargo to our headquarters in Cross Hands. We’re looking forward to seeing the restored collection boxes and wish the charity continued success with its fundraising.”

Natalie DeMaid, Regional Fundraising Community Manager for Guide Dogs, said the charity was grateful to Castell Howell for finding such a creative solution. “These collecting boxes bring in vital cash to help Guide Dogs provide its life-changing services to people with sight loss,” she said. “They are bright, colourful, and lifelike, and we look forward to placing them in key locations so the community can enjoy them.”

Once at HMP Swansea, the boxes will be washed, filled, repaired and repainted by prisoners to a high standard before being returned to public locations across the region. A prison spokesperson said the project provided meaningful rehabilitation opportunities, allowing prisoners to develop practical skills and build confidence.

“Prisoners gain a strong sense of pride and responsibility by taking part in work that directly benefits the wider community,” the spokesperson said.

The partnership between HMP Swansea and Guide Dogs has seen the prison workshop become a key part of the charity’s restoration operation in South Wales, with inmates learning valuable trade skills while helping to keep the charity’s fundraising infrastructure in working order.

Castell Howell, which is headquartered in Cross Hands and delivers food to pubs, restaurants, schools and hospitals across Wales, has a long track record of supporting community and charitable causes across the region.

The restored boxes will be placed in key public locations once the work at HMP Swansea is complete, where they will once again be collecting donations to fund the charity’s life-changing work with people with sight loss.

Guide Dogs supports people living with sight loss to have the confidence, skills and support they need to live life to the full. Anyone wishing to support the charity can find out more at guidedogs.org.uk.

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Young people with sight loss gain cooking skills

Cooking lessons are giving young people with sight loss new skills in Southampton. This summer, the participants, supported by Tesco’s The Sun Healthy Eating for All campaign, have been practising cutting, dicing, and preparing various meals. T…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #AngelaWood #cookinglessons #essentialskills #sightloss #Southampton #Tesco
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2259159/young-people-with-sight-loss-gain-cooking-skills/

Young people with sight loss gain cooking skills https://www.diningandcooking.com/2259159/young-people-with-sight-loss-gain-cooking-skills/ #AngelaWood #Cooking #CookingLessons #EssentialSkills #SightLoss #Southampton #Tesco

Preordered Unseen: How I Lost My Vision But Found My Voice ebook by Molly Burke on Apple Books. It’s published next month.

https://books.apple.com/gb/book/unseen/id6741886838

There is also an audio book narrated by the author. Apple Books link: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/unseen-how-i-lost-my-vision-but-found-my-voice/id1822876209

#Books #MollyBurke #SightLoss #Blind

Molly Burke seems like a good human. And funny.

She’s also been blind since the age of 14.

Here she is doing facial expressions to camera.

YouTube short: https://youtube.com/shorts/HyxqDnHlJyw

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mollyburkeofficial?igsh=Y3JqbW13cDR3aHRj

#SightLoss #Blind

Sight loss is a deeply personal journey, and perspectives on it can vary widely. Watch the full discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ag_fGG7E3M
#LowVision #Perspectives #SightLoss

@dgar

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MAKING WAY FOR THOSE WHO MAKE WAVES!

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Majima Goro is hot —
now in Hawai’i!

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Good couple of days doing #RNIB training on #counselling for #SightLoss

UPDATE, POSTPONED: Orkney Destination for Race Across the Libraries to Highlight Accessible Reading Options https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/03/15/update-postponed-orkney-destination-for-race-across-the-libraries-to-highlight-accessible-reading-options/ #Libraries, #OrkneyLibraryAndArchive, #Reading, #RNIB, #SightLoss, #SimonSavidge, #TrishSail

Blindness from some inherited eye diseases may be caused by gut bacteria – study https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/blindness-cell-china-b2502692.htmlan interesting discovery, although the problem does seem to relate a rather small number of specific eye conditions. Still, the more science discovers, the sooner we may see sight loss prevented for some people. #Science is amazing.
#Blindness #SightLoss

This is an interesting initiative. As long as they aren’t merely talking shops and they can actually influence local decisions, they could make a huge difference for visually impaired people.
#Scotland #SightLoss #Blind #Accessibility
Sight Loss Councils set to amplify voices of blind people in Scotland https://www.thenational.scot/news/23741669.sight-loss-councils-set-amplify-voices-blind-people-scotland/?ref=rss

Eye Care Liaison Officers (ECLOs) from RNIB Scotland will be visiting Orkney from July 29th – 31st to offer emotional and practical support to those living with sight loss.
#Orkney #RNIB #sightloss
https://theorkneynews.scot/2023/07/16/support-for-those-with-sight-loss-in-orkney/

Dear editor | We are local groups of blind and partially sighted people, known as Sight Loss Councils, calling for a halt on the proposed mass closures of rail ticket offices which would have a devastating impact on our community ...

#TicketOffice #Accessibility #SightLoss
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/letters-to-the-editor-6/

Question:are there #screenreaders that substitute a little beep instead of the word #hashtag #visuallyimpaired #blind #blindness #visualimpairment #accessibility #lowvision #disability #disabilityawareness #sightloss #visionloss #legallyblind #whitecane #disabled #love #braille #k #partiallysighted #legallyblind
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#i#visualimpaired #art #abandoned #inclusion #blindartistsww #blindphotographer #blindmusician #blindviolinist

Question:are there #screenreaders that substitute a little beep instead of the word #hashtag #visuallyimpaired #blind #blindness #visualimpairment #accessibility #lowvision #disability #disabilityawareness #sightloss #visionloss #legallyblind #whitecane #disabled #love #braille #k #partiallysighted #legallyblind
#whitecane
#disabled
#braille
#partiallysighted
#visualimpaired
#abandoned
#i#visualimpaired #art #abandoned #inclusion #blindartistsww #blindphotographer #blindmusician #blindviolinist

Question:are there #screenreaders that substitute a little beep instead of the word #hashtag #visuallyimpaired #blind #blindness #visualimpairment #accessibility #lowvision #disability #disabilityawareness #sightloss #visionloss #legallyblind #whitecane #disabled #love #braille #k #partiallysighted #legallyblind
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#abandoned
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Are there blind UX designers? I'd expect so, I just launched a icon based mobile app for wireframing and visual/2D-spatial brainstorming.

Would you use something like that? How could I make it work for you? And do you have ideas on how I can preview/explain how it works?

Other tips?

#accessibility #disability #inclusion #blind #accessible #blindness #visualimpairment #sightloss #visualimpaired #a11y

Age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of sight loss 👁️ ? ERC grantee @pablo_artal is developing an innovative tool to assess macular density! @UMU @CORDIS_EU

To discover more 👉 https://bit.ly/3DOLky2

#macularpigment #MPOD #sightloss #EUfunded

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1587414181988696065

Age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of sight loss 👁️ ? ERC grantee @pablo_artal is developing an innovative tool to assess macular density! @UMU @CORDIS_EU

To discover more 👉 https://bit.ly/3DOLky2

#macularpigment #MPOD #sightloss #EUfunded

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1587414181988696065