Stephen Fear was one of the judges for the Children’s Literature Festivals Poetry Contest 2020, to see who won the competition and more about the Children’s Literature Festivals Charity, please click here. The poems are included within a book called “#LockdownLife – A collection of poems about life in lockdown“
Stephen Fear chaired the Innovation Panel for 2017 Beacon Visionary+ Challenge. The below article was featured on the pos’ability magazine website on 13th April 2017, please click here to view the original article. Visionary device scoops £20,000 award An innovative device which will improve the quality of life of thousands of…
Stephen Fear chaired the Innovation Panel for 2017 Beacon Visionary+ Challenge. The below article was featured on the TradePoint magazine website on 13th April 2017, please click here to view the original article. Visionary device scoops £20,000 award An innovative device which will improve the quality of life of thousands of…
On 23rd March 2017 Lucy Air Ambulance for Children Charity held a Corporate Lunch at the London Capital Club in the City of London with Stephen, a Patron of the Charity, as Keynote Speaker. His talk was entitled “A Glass Half Full”, inspiring a positive attitude in spite of difficult…
Commenting on his appointment Dr. Fear said: I have been very impressed with the progress of this Charity, which I have followed keenly for some time. I am looking forward to being more closely involved and actively support the charity’s executive team wherever possible. We are delighted to welcome Dr.…
The region’s leading sight loss charity has launched a new social enterprise optometry service. Beacon Opticians+ offers a full NHS eye testing and spectacle dispensing service in state-of-the-art facilities within the charity’s Sedgley headquarters. Notable entrepreneur Stephen Fear performed the formal opening of the centre. The move marks a significant…
Last Friday we were invited to join Beacon Centre in Wolverhampton at the opening of their new Optician located within the Beacon Centre building, marking a very special occasion as this is the first opticians in the UK, and maybe even the world, owned and ran by a charity and…
I was privileged last Friday to be asked by Arwyn Jones, Chief Executive of Beacon Centre for The Blind in Wolverhampton, to cut the ribbon on the opening of the UK’s (and probably the worlds) first opticians owned and operated by a charity and to speak at their 140th birthday…
A Dudley charity’s 140th anniversary ball is promising to be a glittering success. The glamorous ‘Hollywood Ball’ being hosted by Sedgley-based sight loss charity Beacon will take place on Friday, October 9, at the Copthorne Hotel, Merry Hill. Beacon’s ball includes an appearance by guest speaker Dr Stephen Fear, an…
People often say when they see someone begging under a cash point, “Why doesn’t he or she just get a job?” My answer to the question is that something will have gone wrong in this person’s life, often many years before, which has yet to be put right. I liken…
People often say when they see someone begging under a cashpoint! “why doesn’t he or she just get a job”? My answer to the question is that something will have gone wrong in this persons life, often many years before, which has yet to be put right. I liken it…
Please click here to see the original article on the 8848 Agency’s ‘News, views and things to amuse’ section on 10th August 2015: ” By Caroline on 10th August 2015 Leading West Midlands charity Beacon is throwing a celebration ball to mark 140 years of support for local people with sight loss. The…
Bristol-born entrepreneur Stephen Fear, known as the phonebox millionaire, has become a patron of homeless charity Emmaus. Dr Fear, pictured, who created his first business aged 14 from a phonebox on his Bristol council estate, said due to hyperactivity as a child and the breakup of his parents’ marriage when…
Leon and I spent Monday morning at The Guildhall, the seat of the oldest continuous democracy in the World and which was established during the reign of Elizabeth The1st. As we waited for The Lord Mayor of London to arrive we chatted together about why the UK is so important…