Plea to get funds restored
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Cambridge Evening News (UK)
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Plea to get funds restored
A CHARITY for the blind and visually impaired has pleaded with county
councillors to restore its funding.
Cambridgeshire County Council decided to cut funding for Camread, which
totalled £10,000 last year.
The charity fears it may have to abandon the 500 people it helps, including
sending 90 volunteers to people's homes to read important documents and letters
to them and producing a free audio magazine so they can keep in touch with what
is happening around them.
Now Camread has presented a petition signed by 227 people to Cambridgeshire
County Council.
Bill Kirkman, chairman of trustees, said: "Please will the county council look
carefully at the requests and comments included in our petition. Please will
you take into account the support for our plea shown by many sighted and
visually impaired people, by letters and messages already sent to the leader of
the council and by many letters in the local press."
Coun Shona Johnstone, leader of the council, said funding for adult social care
was tight and that £3,000 had been made available to Camread for transition.
She said: "We recognise Camread's services and their unique nature, but they
were still considered to not be meeting our priorities."
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