Wildlife artist designs humorous Christmas card for radios for the blind charity
Howard Lake | 3 December 2005 | News
Kent wildlife artist Brian Page has created a Christmas card for the Chatham-based British Wireless for the Blind Fund (BWFB), the charity that provides specially adapted radios for blind people.
The card features a cheeky robin popping in to listen to one of the charity’s old-fashioned radio sets.
“We really admire Brian’s work and asked him if he would come up with a special card for us”, said Margaret Grainger, BWBF chief executive.
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“We are delighted with the result. ‘Listen with Robin’ is a wonderful Christmas scene with a cheeky robin. The card features the R300 set made by Roberts we used to provide in the 1950s. It is more evocative of a traditional Christmas setting than the highly specified sets we use today.
“The card has proved incredibly popular with sales outstripping all our other card designs this year.”
Brian lives in Crockenhill, near Swanley, and spends his weekends making sketches and taking photographs of local wildlife.
The BWBF was launched by Winston Churchill in 1929 to loan radios to blind people in need. These days the Fund provides modern sets that include a new digital radio as well as sets that include CD and cassette players.
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