About The Wilberforce Trust
The Wilberforce Trust are committed to supporting people with sight loss, we do this through our supported accommodation, low vision clinic, visual awareness training and activities within the living and learning zone.
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The Wilberforce Way is a 60.5 mile linear trail devised to mark the bicentenary of the 1807 Act of Parliament abolishing British involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Wilberforce was also a passionate supporter of other charitable causes including the education of blind and partially sighted people, which is where the modern day Wilberforce Trust emerges. He himself had poor eyesight which, in the days before large print and audio, meant he had to retire early from his post as MP for Yorkshire.
The trail goes from Hull (where William Wilberforce was born), goes through Pocklington (where he went to school) to York (where he was declared M.P. for the County of Yorkshire). The walks visit some stunning Wolds landscape as well as covering locations of special importance in the struggle for human freedom and dignity.
There are six interconnected walks, including one shorter accessible walk, for you to take part in which between them cover the whole of the Wilberf
