The Royal London Society for Dark Humans (RLSB) is a UK alms that has existed for 175 years to advice dark and partially sighted adolescent humans in London and the South East through a alloy of sports, education, and artistic and adorning services.

History

On 12 January 1838, Thomas Lucas accustomed The London Society for Teaching the Dark to Read in the city-limits of London, area he alien his Lucas Type, an aboriginal anatomy of arresting text.
Funds for the academy were aloft abundantly through the efforts of the Ladies' Committee beneath the secretaryship of Mrs Lydia Johnson. Her husband, Percival Norton Johnson, architect of what is now Johnson Matthey plc, aswell took a arresting role in the diplomacy of the Society for abounding years.
Over the years the academy boring expanded, affective to locations beyond London, afore branch to Aylesbury during World War II and eventually Seal in Kent. A academy and nursery were after accustomed to acquiesce RLSB to ability out to added adolescent people.
To advice eyes broken humans accretion employment, RLSB aswell ran a home workers arrangement and workshops through the 1900s to acquiesce humans to apprentice a barter and acquisition work.
Since again RLSB has connected to advance and aggrandize to accommodated the needs of eyes broken adolescent people. Supporters and donors accept included the Royal family, author J. B. Priestley and Charlie Chaplin.

RLSB Connections

RLSB runs a arrangement for dark and partially sighted adolescent humans alleged RLSB Connections, through which they can admission a ambit of opportunities.
Working beyond all London Boroughs, RLSB provides abutment to advice humans who are dark or partially sighted acquisition employment. The alignment aswell works with active humans who accept apropos over their breakable eyesight, allowance them abide to plan in an able manner, as able-bodied as anecdotic application opportunities for audience and accommodate training and abutment casework to advice administration bigger accommodated the needs of their dark and partially sighted advisers and customers. Courses are offered exploring literacy, numeracy and ICT.
RLSB maintains a programme alleged Sports Without Limits, advised to accord visually broken adolescent humans age-old 8–25 the adventitious to acquaintance a ambit of antic activities including cricket, football, tennis, goalball, athletics, judo and even bedrock climbing. The programme appearance a array of action canicule that yield abode beyond London, Kent and Sussex and are accessible to accouchement aural boilerplate education. Anniversary Action Canicule are captivated during academy holidays and accord adolescent humans the adventitious to try up to three sports. Weekend Action Canicule yield abode on a account base in Sussex. Residential trips are captivated in an apparent apprenticed anniversary centre and action five-day antic breaks. Action canicule are run by coaches who accept played for the England Dark Candid team.
RLSB aswell works with agents and teaching administration in boilerplate education, attempting to accouter them with the abilities they charge to plan with dark and visually broken adolescent people