27-614: Rachlin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ann Rachlin (born 1933), British music educator Ezra Rachlin (1915–1995), American conductor and pianist Howard Rachlin (born 1935), American psychologist Julian Rachlin (born 1974), Lithuanian violinist, violist and conductor Natan Rachlin (1905–1979), Ukrainian conductor Robert D. Rachlin , American lawyer References [ edit ] ^ "Rachlin" . Forebears.io . Retrieved 2018-04-25 . [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
54-693: A membership organisation . To coincide with the launch of the UK Vision Strategy in 2008, it was renamed the Royal National Institute of Blind People. In October 2008, RNIB and Action for Blind People agreed in principle to combine some services across England. The new arrangement began in April 2009, resulting in Action for Blind People becoming an associate charity of RNIB. It merged with RNIB on 1 April 2017. Anna Tylor, who
81-481: A series of cassette tapes and then CDs. Former students at her classes included Prince William , Prince Harry and amongst others, the children of Dame Judi Dench , Spike Milligan , Peter O'Toole , Barry Humphries and Edward Fox . In 1976, Rachlin founded the Beethoven Fund for Deaf Children, now incorporated with The Elizabeth Foundation for Deaf Children. She was President of both charities. During
108-418: A vast collection of accessible textbooks and materials – and Talking Books, a service first established in 1935, which offers thousands of audio books, both fiction and non-fiction. RNIB’s ECLO (Eye Care Liaison Officers) service aims to help patients understand the impact of a sight loss diagnosis and to direct them to appropriate sources of support. Since the 1950s, the children's puppet character Sooty
135-412: Is an exclusive feature on the charity's collection boxes. RNIB campaigns to change behaviours and perceptions around sight loss. It has been involved with several large-scale campaigns including calls for action to create a safer and more inclusive public transport system. In 2023, the charity played a key role in a national campaign to scrap plans to close ticket offices in train stations. In 2022,
162-558: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Ann Rachlin Ann Sybille Rachlin MBE (née Lyttleton ; 23 July 1933 – 20 November 2023) was a British musician, author of children's books and the founder of 'Fun with Music', a stream of online stories for children with music. She was an authority on Dame Ellen Terry , the Victorian actress, and her daughter Edith Craig . Ann Sybille Lyttleton
189-492: Is partially sighted, has been RNIB's Chair since 2020. Matt Stringer was appointed Chief Executive in 2019. King Charles III is the charity's Patron. His mother, Queen Elizabeth II , was RNIB's Patron throughout her reign (1952–2022). RNIB's helpline gives access to sight loss experts for questions and guidance. RNIB's extensive range of reading services includes RNIB Bookshare – a free library of over one million items, which supports students and others in education with
216-466: The 2024 general election RNIB delivered an open letter to 10 Downing Street highlighting that according to its research roughly 87% of the UK's citizens with visual impairments were denied their right to vote in secret. The campaign follows a 2019 court judgement that declared the UK's current voting arrangements for people with blindness or visual impairments to be unlawful. RNIB pointed out that in spite of
243-837: The London Symphony Orchestra , conducted by her husband, Ezra. When Ezra Rachlin died in 1995, Ann Rachlin continued her work with colleague Iain Kerr. In 1996 she was the subject of This Is Your Life when Yehudi Menuhin , Sir Georg Solti and Lord Runcie joined many celebrities, friends and former pupils to pay tribute to her life's work with children and music. In October 2022, she organised "Ukraine Reborn - A Concert of Words and Music", performed in Winchelsea's St Thomas's Church, with Raphael Wallfisch (cello) and as narrators, her former pupils, actors Freddie Fox and Emilia Fox . The concert raised £20,000 for
270-697: The Royal National Institute for the Blind ) is a British charity , founded in 1868, that serves people living with visual impairments . It is regarded as a leader in the field in supporting people in the UK who have vision loss. The organisation seeks to increase awareness of the lived experiences of people who are blind or partially sighted. Additionally, it campaigns to make services such as healthcare, education and public transport safer and more accessible to people with visual impairments. The Charity Commission for England and Wales investigated
297-410: The surname Rachlin . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachlin&oldid=838215112 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1732773286804324-548: The Embossed Literature of the Blind. The first meeting, which was held at 33 Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London , involved founder Thomas Rhodes Armitage (a physician who was partially sighted) and Daniel Conolly, W W Fenn and Dr James Gale (all three of whom were blind). Later, the organisation became the British and Foreign Blind Association for Improving the Embossed Literature of the Blind and Promoting
351-737: The Employment of the Blind – generally shortened to the British and Foreign Blind Association. In 1914, the organisation relocated to larger premises in Great Portland Street . From 2000 until 2023, RNIB operated from premises on Judd Street, in Bloomsbury, London , which it shared with Guide Dogs . In 2023, The Duchess of Edinburgh opened the organisation's new headquarters in the Grimaldi Building on Pentonville Road , London, which has been adapted to cater for
378-618: The Saint Nicholas Hospital for Children in Lviv , Ukraine , where injured children were being treated following the invasion by Russia . Rachlin's Famous Children books have been translated into different languages including Indonesian , Finnish , Czech and two Chinese versions. She was an authority on the Victorian actress Dame Ellen Terry and her daughter Edith Craig ; her collection of Terry memorabilia includes
405-432: The age of 90. In 1965, Rachlin started to teach classical music to children through her Fun With Music classes. In these classes she related stories over classical tracks. When EMI contracted Rachlin's skills, they launched Ann's Classical Music and Stories series with 10 LPs, which were widely popular. Immediately afterwards EMI released a further 10 LPs making a collection of 20 Albums. These were then expanded to include
432-506: The boxes on the paper. RNIB used to run a number of schools, homes, and other institutions. In 2018, an Ofsted report was highly critical of the RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning , near Coventry , which comprised a school and a children's home, founded in 1957 as Rushton Hall School. Ofsted described it as inadequate in three categories and requiring improvement in the other two. It highlighted failures in safeguarding
459-467: The charity from 2018 to 2020, finding multiple failings described by the Commission's chief executive as "one of the worst examples we have uncovered of poor governance and oversight having a direct impact on vulnerable people." The RNIB began selling all its eighteen schools, homes and other institutions. RNIB was first established on 16 October 1868 as the British and Foreign Society for Improving
486-524: The charity launched its largest-ever advertising campaign, See the person, not the sight loss , to raise awareness of sight loss and the support that people who have visual impairments might need. Along with other leading health charities, RNIB lobbied throughout 2023 for better disability support across the National Health Service (NHS). The charity has campaigned for mandatory secret ballots for people with visual impairments. After
513-489: The charity's care were put at risk or harmed. The Charity Commission's chief executive described this investigation as "one of the worst examples we have uncovered of poor governance and oversight having a direct impact on vulnerable people." The Commission stated that RNIB's corporate stewardship of services for children with complex needs fell far short of expectations and that the charity's board had been focused on narrow regulatory compliance and dismissive of criticism from
540-472: The judgement, the majority of the UK's visually impaired voters do so using technology that requires them to be accompanied into the voting booth and have their choices read aloud by an assistant. As of 2024 only one person living with blindness in the UK has voted in secret, using a device known as the McGonagle Reader. This comprises an audio player with headphones and a plastic template to locate
567-433: The needs of people who are blind, partially sighted or neurodiverse . RNIB's remit has always included reading and writing (e.g. Braille ), education and employment. From the 20th century, welfare/social support has been important. However, it was not till the late 1980s that eye health became a major focus. Previously, eye health was seen as the sole prerogative of ophthalmologists and optometrists . In 1914,
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#1732773286804594-454: The organisation changed its name to The National Institute for the Blind, or NIB, to reflect its status as a national body involved in all aspects of the welfare of blind people. The organisation was officially renamed the Royal National Institute for the Blind in 1953, having been granted a Royal Charter in 1949. In 2002, the organisation was renamed the Royal National Institute of the Blind ("of" rather than "for" blind people) when it became
621-567: The pandemic , due to the problems that lockdown created for families and schools, she made all her recording albums free to children worldwide. She also recorded her ten Famous Children books for the Royal National Institute for the Blind so that visually-impaired children could listen. For blind adults, she recorded The Tin Ring by Holocaust survivor Zdenka Fantlová , also for the RNIB. Rachlin's performances included "Funtasia" concerts in 1986 with
648-592: The regulatory organisations it was accountable to – the Care Quality Commission and Ofsted. It found failures in training, safeguarding, record-keeping, reporting, responding to complaints, and the administration of medication, as well as instances of harm. It was then reported that RNIB was selling all eighteen of its care homes and schools. The Charity Commission gave RNIB an official warning and required it to overhaul its governance, management and culture. In light of RNIB's progress in fulfilling
675-747: The reminiscences of Edith Craig, now published in Ann Rachlin's book Edy was a Lady . In 1986, Rachlin was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to music and deaf children. In 2010, Rachlin was awarded a Fellowship at Grey College in the University of Durham. Royal National Institute for the Blind RNIB (formally, the Royal National Institute of Blind People and previously
702-676: The vulnerable children and in training staff to support them. Later that year, RNIB announced that it had been unable to make sufficient improvements and was closing the Centre; RNIB's chief executive resigned. Also in 2018, the Charity Commission for England and Wales launched its own inquiry into RNIB following serious allegations of systemic failings within the organisation. In 2020, the Commission ruled that there had been significant management, oversight, and staffing shortcomings which had led to repeated incidents where young people in
729-589: Was born in Leeds on 23 July 1933. Her father owned a clothing manufacturing business. Her paternal grandmother was born in Wales , and her other grandparents came as immigrants from Poland and Lithuania . Rachlin married Neville Ziff, with whom she had two daughters and one son. They divorced after eleven years. In 1969 she married American conductor and pianist Ezra Rachlin , and they remained married until his death in 1995. Ann Rachlin died on 20 November 2023, at
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