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RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning ( Formerly RNIB Rushton School and Children's Home ) was established in 1957 and is based near Coventry, Warwickshire.
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RNIB is redeveloping the existing Pears Centre site with new purpose-built facilities costing £ 30 million.
RNIB and for
Moon books for fluent readers can be borrowed from the RNIB National Library Service and books for children from Clearvision Project.
In October 2008, RNIB and Action for Blind People agreed in principle to combine some services across England.
The new arrangement began in April 2009, resulting in Action for Blind People becoming an Associate Charity of RNIB.
To this end, RNIB leads on the UK Vision Strategy, developed by a large eye health and sight loss alliance, to set the direction for the eye health of the nation.
RNIB provides support, information and advice for people affected by sight loss, as well as for eye health and other professionals.
In 2007 / 08 over 280, 000 people a month contacted RNIB for general information on sight loss, to lend their voice to a campaign, for expert advice, or to buy an accessible product.
RNIB runs a telephone Helpline ( 0303 123 9999 ) to provide information and support for anyone affected by a sight problem.
RNIB works to increase access to information for blind and partially sighted people.
RNIB owns three residential homes for older people who are blind, partially sighted or deafblind and require permanent or short-term accommodation.
The RNIB National Library Service contains more than 40, 000 titles, making it the largest specialist library in the UK for readers with sight loss.
The RNIB National Library Service was created in 2007 when the RNIB's library services merged with the National Library for the Blind.
In August 2008, following more than two-and-half-years of campaigning led by RNIB, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) issued new guidance on drugs for treating wet Age-related Macular Degeneration ( AMD ).
RNIB is campaigning for books to be produced in accessible formats at the same time as they come out in regular print, and for the same price.
RNIB is campaigning for this target to be doubled, and to make sure that accessibility is not compromised by the national switchover to digital TV by 2012.
The Elizabethan manor house in Condover, Condover Hall was sold to and operated by the RNIB as the residential Condover Hall School for the Blind until 2005.
Action for Blind People formed a partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People ( RNIB ) in April 2009 and became part of RNIB Group.
was a concert honoring theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh, performed as a benefit for the Royal National Institute of the Blind ( RNIB ) and the Combined Theatrical Charities.
RNIB and School
Before 2005 it was owned by RNIB and operated as Condover Hall School for the Blind, a residential facility for children aged between 5 and 18.
RNIB and was
The Royal National Institute of Blind People ( RNIB ) was founded by Thomas Rhodes Armitage, a successful doctor who suffered from eyesight problems.
In 2002, RNIB membership was introduced and the organisation's name changed to Royal National Institute of the Blind.
NLB was taken over by RNIB on 1 January 2007.
RNIB and is
The Royal National Institute of Blind People ( RNIB ) is a UK charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million people in the UK with sight loss.
RNIB is a national organization with branches and services throughout the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland.
RNIB is governed by a Board of Trustees.
RNIB College Loughborough is based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, and supports students with sight loss and other disabilities.
The merged service is now part of RNIB and incorporates all the library services formerly provided by the two organisations.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People ( RNIB ) is a UK charity which offers a Talking Books library service.
RNIB and based
RNIB's homes are based in Somerset ( RNIB Kathleen Chambers House ), North Yorkshire ( RNIB Tate House ) and East Sussex ( RNIB Wavertree House ).
RNIB and .
In 2002 RNIB became a membership organisation, enabling a greater proportion of blind and partially sighted people to get involved and have a say on how the organisation delivers services and what work it does.
RNIB works to eliminate avoidable sight loss.
As well as telephone advice, RNIB maintains an accessible website and print and audio publications.
To support people coming to terms with sight loss, RNIB organises ' Finding your feet ' weekend breaks.
RNIB runs a radio station, Insight Radio-Europe's first radio station dedicated to the blind and partially sighted community.
RNIB runs an Online shop and several Resource Centres, which sell accessible products, gifts and publications.
RNIB sources, designs and supplies products to help blind and partially sighted people live independently, and to make everyday tasks easier.
Pears and for
Pears have been cultivated in China for approximately 3000 years.
Britten's interests as a composer were wide-ranging ; he produced important music in such varied genres as orchestral, choral, solo vocal ( much of it written for his life partner, tenor Peter Pears ), chamber and instrumental, as well as film music.
Britten was also responsible, together with Pears and the librettist / producer Eric Crozier, for the founding of the Aldeburgh Festival, and the creation of Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
There, in 1940, Britten composed Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the first of many song cycles for Pears ( Britten composed his first individual work for Pears in 1937, as part of The Company of Heaven for the BBC ).
Both Britten and Pears applied for recognition as conscientious objectors ; Britten was initially allowed only non-combatant service in the military, but gained unconditional exemption on appeal.
Britten wrote Albert Herring for the English Opera Group in 1947, and it was while on tour that Pears came up with the idea of mounting a Festival in the small Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh, six miles from Snape, where Britten had now moved to a house on Crag Path.
In April 1939, Britten and Pears left for America together as pacifists, a few months before the outbreak of war between the British Empire and Germany.
There, in 1940, Britten composed Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the first of many song cycles for Pears.
Many of Britten's works contain a main tenor role written specifically for Pears.
Pears was co-librettist for A Midsummer Night's Dream, and created one of his few comic roles in it.
: In 1862 Francis Pears decided to expand his soap making business and bought land alongside the London Road for a factory.
Millais also achieved great popularity with his paintings of children, notably Bubbles ( 1886 ) – famous, or perhaps notorious, for being used in the advertising of Pears soap – and Cherry Ripe.
The cantata Boyhood's End, composed for Britten and Pears, reflected a common interest in Purcell.
Other works from this period are the Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles, commissioned in 1948 by the BBC, the song-cycle The Heart's Assurance, written in memory of Francesca Allinson and first performed in 1951 by Britten and Pears, and the 1953 Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli.
Naju Pears and muskmelons are popular as gifts for Lunar New Year and other holidays.
& F. Pears created a famous advertisement campaign for its soaps in 1886 using a painting by Millais of a child playing with bubbles.
Bream has also taken part in many collaborations, including work with Peter Pears on Elizabethan music for lute and voice, and three records of guitar duets with John Williams.
* Music for Voice and Guitar with Peter Pears, RCA LSC-2718
Rock of Gibraltar by Charles Pears for the Empire Marketing Board
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