Monthly Meetings
badg now meets the first Thursday of every month at the Nautical Club, from 7:05 PM till 9:05 PM then followed by a relaxing social drink. All visitors are welcome £3 on the door. For more up to date news of badg, meetings and discussions, Please check our Facebook page.
What is badg?
badg is a self-help dyslexic group. It was started in the mid 1990's in Birmingham. It is probably one of the earliest, largest and longest running adult self-help groups in the country. badg members meet once a month, funding permitting on an evening, and every Tuesday and Thursday during the day. badg's main aims are to help dyslexics emotionally and socially. We are also involved in informing people of the real issues of dyslexia, which are short-term memory and the positive attributes of dyslexics and not the negatives reading, writing and arithmetic. We are in the process of developing our website so it is dyslexic friendly. We are also raising issues in regards to the library and its failure to provide an adequate and reasonable service. We have over a number of years made certain suggestions and recommendations to resolve these issues and responses have not been forthcoming.
To promote positive awareness badg's chairperson William Ford decided to start a new group called Birmingham Dyslexic Art. Its aims are to repair the long-term damage that the education system and the negative social environment have brought about. With the support of the committee and badg members we have gone about encouraging adult dyslexics to become more involved in the arts. We started with photography, watercolours, acrylics and montages. Also designing t-shirt slogans using various materials such as felt-tip pens, acrylics, car paints, paper, CD's and other materials. We also provided dyslexic members and non-members with disposable cameras. This culminated in an exhibition at the Rep and at Central Library which can now be seen on this website. This has been the starting point. We aim to make this an annual event, encouraging all ages of dyslexics from the young through to the elderly. The interest so far has been overwhelming, so we are looking forward to a positive future for dyslexics in the arts.
