navigation search galloway s society for the blind type charity founded 1867 headquarters penwortham morecambe chorley key people mr john j ward chairman peter taylor chief executive website www.galloways.org.uk galloway s society for the blind also known as galloways reg charity number 526088 is one of lancashire s oldest charities established in 1867 following a public meeting in the corn exchange preston england . it was originally the preston industrial institute for the blind then the institute for blind welfare and until 2000 the preston and north lancashire blind welfare society . it is now named after william wilding galloway a cotton merchant from preston who left 40 000 to local charities including 10 000 to the society when he died in 1936 . 1 2 the society renamed itself in july 2000 to avoid its cumbersome previous name which was commonly abbreviated to the ambiguous the blind society and to honour its greatest benefactor . 3 the charity now provides many services to over 7000 blind and visually impaired people across the county and has offices in chorley penwortham southport and morecambe . the charity has developed an extensive programme of adult education and works in partnership with lancashire college the adult college lancaster and lancashire county council . the provision of talking newspapers and magazines is another one of its services producing over 3500 usb memory sticks and cds each week . current titles include lancashire evening post ormskirk advertiser lancaster guardian & morecambe visitor longridge news garstang courier farmers guardian methodist recorder the catholic voice salvation army war cry and asian awaz in urdu . the charity provides blind awareness training to local organisations and undertakes braille and cd transcription services . galloway s operates 4 sight advice centres across lancashire at chorley preston southport and morecambe from where a range of specialist equipment is available the society relies on legacies and donations to fund its activities and needs to raise over 1 million each year . references edit fundraising and appeals legacies . galloway s society for the blind . retrieved 10 march 2012 . information about william wilding galloway and the first two names of the society was provided by the society on its facebook page 10 march 2012 new name for old charity . lancashire county publications news preston . 12 may 2000 . retrieved 10 march 2012 . available online through newsbank to subscribers external links edit official website charity commission . galloway s society for the blind registered charity no. 526088 . 140th anniversary celebrations pdf . penwortham town council newsletter edition 10 . 2007 . history of galloway s society v t e organisations for visually impaired people in the united kingdom charities action for blind people blind in business blindart bradbury fields british blind sport cardiff institute for the blind fight for sight galloway s society for the blind the guide dogs for the blind association henshaws society for blind people kent association for the blind leeds society for deaf and blind people listening books nalsvi national library for the blind royal london society for the blind rnib blind veterans uk seeability the royal school for the blind sightsavers site vista warwickshire vision support assistive technology dolphin computer access leisure traveleyes media insight radio schools and colleges dorton house exhall grange school jordanstown schools joseph clarke school linden lodge school new college worcester queen alexandra college rnib college loughborough rnib pears centre for specialist learning royal blind school royal national college for the blind royal school for the blind liverpool this article about a charitable organisation in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title galloway % 27s society for the blind & oldid 647212348 categories blindness organizationscharities for disabled people based in the united kingdomdisability rights organizationscharities based in lancashireunited kingdom charity stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 07 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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