# Wildlife artist designs humorous Christmas card for radios for the blind charity

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/12/03/wildlife-artist-designs-humorous-christmas-card-radios-blind-charity/
- Published: 2005-12-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

“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.

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“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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