The Cheltenham Home Teaching Society was founded. Nine ladies from Cheltenham formed a society through which they endeavoured to provide meaningful occupation for the town’s blind people, and to teach them to read.

The charity acquired premises for a workshop at Clareville House, 47 Winchcombe Street. A variety of items were produced including baskets and wickerwork of every description, The workshops, continued in existence until as late as the 1950’s.

We became the Cheltenham Workshops for the Blind.

The Cheltenham Workshops for the Blind changed its name to the Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Society for the Blind.

Two hundred blind men marched from Manchester to London and held a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, calling on the Government to take steps to improve the general condition of the blind.

The Blind Persons Act made County Councils responsible for the registration and welfare of the visually impaired.

Gloucestershire County Association for the Blind was formed.

The Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Society for the Blind was taken over by the Gloucestershire County Association for the Blind. In 1925 there were 610 blind persons on the charities register.

The National Assistance Act was produced which further defined the responsibility of the Gloucestershire County Council towards blind welfare.

There were now 1058 blind or visually impaired people on the Gloucestershire register. GCAB funded 7 Social Welfare Officers (as home teachers had been renamed) who in the year of 1966 alone did 9500 home visits including 2000 lessons. In the same year 8 social clubs for the blind flourished, group holidays were organised and equipment provided or repaired all by GCAB volunteers.

A telephone and answer machine was installed in the Association office.

A kurzweil Personal reader (text to speech machine) was given to the Association so that people with visual impairment were able to come to the office and use the machine to read letters.

The Demonstration centre had an Eezee Reader for sale at £280.00

An appeal was launched to purchase and alter 81 Albion St, Cheltenham as the work of the organisation had grown out of its current premises, and HRH Prince Michael of Kent agreed to be our Royal Patron.

The new Centre was officially opened on 26th July 1996

81 Albion Street was once again altered inside to make better use of the space as the organisation continued to develop.

HRH Prince Michael of Kent our Patron at the time visited the premises. In the same year GCAB as we were known then had to begin fundraising in our own right for the first time. 2003 also saw our first website launched.

GCAB volunteers have always and continue to work tirelessly for the organisation and in June they received a Queens Award for Voluntary Service

Saw the launch of Insight our first information point away from Albion St.

GCAB celebrated its 150th Anniversary

Sir Henry Elwes our Patron stepped down after many years as our Patron.

We rebranded as Insight Gloucestershire in August with a celebration at the Pump Rooms, Cheltenham.

Insight Roadshows confirmed with 6 taking place around Gloucestershire.