Arts Charities That specialise in Print media

Recording news for blind and partially sighted listeners.

The Charity gives money to individual people or organisations providing they reside in the civil parish of Shaw Cum Donnington. The Trustees only donate money if it is a deserving case. The Charity advertises on notice boards in the parish and the Church magazine.

Provider of audio entertainment for the visually impaired

Each week, a team of readers records the Hexham Courant, Tynedale's local newspaper, for distribution to blind and partially sighted people, and to other disabled people unable to read a printed newspaper. Recordings are copied onto memory sticks, and posted on Friday evenings. Listeners return the sticks to be re-used for the following week's recording. We normally have around 100 listeners.

Serving the visually impaired and blind residents of the London Borough of Merton by distributing free weekly audio recordings on memory sticks and as attachments to Emails. The recordings include local news (mainly from the free local newspaper) and a 30-minute audio Magazine on a wide range of topics of general interest.

Provision of weekly digital memory sticks of news for the blind

Create and supply audio versions of local news, weekly, for visually impaired people. Currently using USB Memory Sticks and the DAWN website: www.dawntn.org.uk.

The aim of the association is to provide, free of cost, to the visually impaired, local news and magazine type material on a weekly basis as reported in the appropriate local newspapers and other reliable sources.

The Crewe and Nantwich Talking Newspaper provides a weekly service containing local news to its listeners who, are in the main visually impaired. The USB sticks are sent out to listeners each week and delivered back to the Talking Newspaper Office by the Royal Mail, as part of a national service to the blind.

Relieves the visually impaired or those labouring under some permanent or temporary incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain by the provision of a range of materials in alternative formats and media. These currently comprise weekly local news and a magazine issued three times per annum in digital media format.

TALKING NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE

We provide weekly digital recordings of local news to all registered blind and partially sighted people in the Vale Royal district.

Provision of news and magazine recordings to the visually impaired in the Maidenhead area.

PROVIDING WEEKLY NEWS AND MAGAZINE CASSETTES TO BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE.

To promote through the awarding of annual bursaries, the development of, and research into, excellence in practice in the fields of public health, health care and community nursing. Currently awards are made each year, with the particular theme and application details and timetable being advertised in the magazine "Community Practitioner" and on the Trust's web site

Recording items culled from local press on tape (soon going digital), copying same and mailing to visually impaired residents in Thurrock plus a few ex-residents elsewhere.

Providing fortnightly local news and bi-monthly magazine recordings on USB sticks to blind and partially sighted listeners Sudbury and District and others with mobility issues;

Produce local talking newspaper on memory stick for visually and physically impaired people

Brentwood and District Talking Newspaper provides a service for the blind and partially sighted in the area. Every week a digest of news from the local paper is recorded and sent to our listeners on computer memory sticks. We also produce a periodic audio magazine - 'Sounds of Brentwood' - and a recording from the council's own magazine 'Vision'.

Recording weekly onto USB memory stick the local news for the blind and partially sighted of East Cambridgeshire

Providing weekly recordings on audio memory sticks from our local (weekly) newspaper for visually impaired and any people in the area who are unable to read for whatever reason.

Provision of recorded extracts from the weekly local newspaper for visually impaired listeners.

Providing local weekly news in a suitable format for blind, partially sighted or for people who for some reason cannot hold a newspaper

Assisting blind people and supplying news etc. by digital means

Provision of a weekly USB stick recording of local news read from the local newspaper. Player can be provided on loan. Both services are free of charge. Circulation is to sight impaired persons and other print disabled persons. Circulation obviously varies but is in the range 40-60.