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Kind Gallery

Archive photographs from across the 43-year history of KIND

Below you'll find archive images from across our 50 year history. It includes some of our children’s Christmas parties in the 1970’s, our various residential Centre’s in Scotland, Wales and the Lake District from 1976 onward, our home in Liverpool for 26 years our SEED Centre on Back Canning Street, as well as photos from our Christmas Appeals over the years and some of the staff who have worked for us over the last five decades.

Christmas

KIND has helped to make Christmas special for thousands of disadvantaged children and families ever since it was founded in 1975. In this gallery are photographs from some of our 1970's children's Christmas parties through to our annual packing of food hampers for local families in need.

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Balbeg 1

In this gallery are photographs from our Residential Centre on the Balbeg Estate, Straiton, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1990-2002

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Balbeg 2

In this gallery are photographs from our Residential Centre on the Balbeg Estate, Straiton, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1990-2002

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Lakeside

In this gallery are photographs from one of our residential visits to the YMCA National Centre, Lakeside at Lake Windemere. We held our residential programme here between 1976-82.

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Quarriers

In this gallery are photographs from our Residential Centre at Quarriers, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, Scotland, 1982-1987

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Lake District

In this gallery are photographs from our Residential base at the Field Studies Council, Castle Head, Grange Over Sands in the Lake District. We ran our Residential programme here between 2002 - 2007

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Hafoty Wen

In this gallery are photographs from our time at Hafoty Wen, Wales, 1987/88

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Back Canning Street

From 1997- 2003 we were based at our Environmental Centre in Back Canning Street, Liverpool. The archive photographs in this gallery show some of our work with local children over that period and illustrate how the site was developed over 23 years.

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Meikle Corsford

In this gallery are photographs from our Residential Centre at Meikle Corsford, Scotland, 1988-90

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Redridge

Though the majority of our work now takes place in Liverpool, we still run a summer residential programme during August of each year. Since 2008 we have used the Redridge Centre in Welshpool as our annual residential centre.

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Lyneal Wharf

In this gallery are photographs of our time on a barge for 6 weeks at Ellesmere, Shropshire, 1989/early 1990

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Staff

In this gallery are archive photographs showing just a few of the many staff and volunteers who have worked with KIND over the last 50 years.