Enid Blyton & Joyce Pearce

[Maureen1954]

In 1959 Enid was having correspondence with Joyce Pearce one of the founders of the Ockenden Venture.

Below is a small extract from Joyce Pearce's files....*

(*The correspondence consisted with Enid Blyton regarding donations of foreign-language versions of
her books to Ockenden 1959 *)

The Ockenden Venture was founded in 1951 by three local
schoolteachers, and took its name from founder Joyce Pearce’s
family home ‘Ockenden’ in White Rose Lane, Woking. The
Ockenden Venture became a registered charity on 24 February
1955, under the War Charities Act 1940, its stated object being
to receive young East European people from post World War II
displaced persons camps in Germany and 'to provide for their
maintenance, clothing, education, recreation, health and general
welfare'. Within a few years, world events and the increasing
numbers of refugees world wide would lead it to widen both its
remit and its scope.

JOYCE PEARCE, OBE, (1915-1985)
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Apart form the charities that Enid was running herself she was also helping other charities,what a woman!!!