About the Left-Handers Club
In 1989 a we undertook a major survey of our customers to
determine their degree of left-handedness and allow them to put
their views and experiences. From the enormous response to this
Survey, it became clear that many left-handers wanted a forum to
discuss aspects of left-handedness on a continuing basis.
To meet this need, the Left-Handers Club was formed in 1990. The
Left-Handers Club aims to keep members in touch with developments,
make their views known to manufacturers and others, provide a help
and advice line, to promote research into left-handedness and
development of new left-handed items.
Since its formation the Club has gone from strength to strength
with members all over the world and is highly regarded as the
foremost pressure group and advice centre on all aspects of
left-handedness. Most notably, campaigns by the Left-Handers Club
have been responsible for:
- The modification of potentially dangerous hand-held power tools
by a major manufacturer
- The introduction of left-handed cheque books by all major banks
in the U.K.
- The production of the only training video for teachers &
parents of left-handed children to show the best way to assist them
in attaining the vital basic skills of handwriting, cutting etc.
without difficulty or discomfort.
On 13th August 1992 the Club launched International Left-Handers
Day, an annual event when left-handers everywhere can celebrate
their sinistrality and increase public awareness of the advantages
and disadvantages of being left-handed. This event is now
celebrated worldwide, and in the U.K. alone there were over 20
regional events to mark the day in 2001- including left-v-right
sports matches, a left-handed tea party, pubs using left-handed
corkscrews where patrons drank and played pub games with the left
hand only, and nationwide "Lefty Zones" where left-handers
creativity, adaptability and sporting prowess were celebrated,
whilst right-handers were encouraged to try out everyday
left-handed objects to see just how awkward it can feel using the
wrong equipment!
These events have contributed more than anything else to the
general awareness of the difficulties and frustrations left-handers
experience in everyday life, and have successfully led to improved
product design and greater consideration of our needs by the
right-handed majority - although there is still a long way to
go!!
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