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Mission statement To advocate, develop and provide, services and facilities which enable people who are blind or partially sighted, achieve independence with dignity, in all aspects of life and sectors of society. |
| Registered charity no. 508914 Telephone: 01904 636269 |
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Welcome to the York Blind and Partially-Sighted Society's website!The Society is the primary agency in the City of York, England, that caters for blind and partially-sighted residents of York, and its visually-impaired visitors. 
YBPSS New Location! We are absolutely delighted that, with effect from December 2007 York Blind and Partially Sighted Society has moved to new premises. Our new address is: Holgate Villa, 22 Holgate Road, York, YO24 4AB Our new premises are much more spacious which will allow us to have a bigger and better Resource Centre. Alongside the Resource Centre will be a drop-in area where you can have a drink while you wait, if the Resource Centre is busy when you come. We will have our own meeting room and, in the long term, we want to provide activities and computer training opportunities. There are so many options open to us, now we have the space available. Holgate Villa is just off Blossom Street and is well served by public transport. Our premises are all on the ground floor, and there is ramped access into the building with two blue badge parking spaces at the front. Pedestrian access is from Holgate Road itself, vehicular and level access is from Lowther Terrace, just off Holgate Road. The building has a staffed reception desk. There is a door entry button on the right of the entrance door, and the receptionist can see you as you approach, so don’t worry if you can’t manage to find the button first time. Nearly all of the buses that go from the city centre to the Railway Station continue on to Blossom Street. If you would like someone to meet you at the Railway Station, or on Blossom Street, to show you the way to Holgate Villas, please give us a ring and we will arrange it. If you are walking from the Station we recommend that you use the footpath opposite the station, (the Bar Walls side of the road) until you get to the top of Queen Street, and then cross over the road there, onto Blossom Street. This will avoid the busy station entrance which doesn’t have a green man crossing point. If your bus doesn’t go as far as Blossom Street, you can change to a number 1 bus, from Haxby, which goes every 10 minutes from York Theatre Royal, and Station Rise. Our telephone number will stay the same, that is 636269. PLEASE do give us a ring if you are at all uncertain about finding Holgate Villa, we will be only too happy to meet you.
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This site will be added to on a regular basis. Plans for content for the near future include: a directory of useful web links a directory of resources and equipment with prices and availability a copy of the Society's constitution a staff page with information about their roles in the Society local blind and partially-sighted news stories possibly a member's forum If you have any ideas for content please email webmaster@ybpss.org. It is hoped to add new content each week so please bookmark this page and come back soon. |
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York Blind and Partially-Sighted Society is indebted to the former webmaster, Mr J Doherty, for most of the content of these pages Please email comments to webmaster@ybpss.org | ||||||