Health Charities That specialise in Health condition

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.

TO RELIEVE THE BLIND, OR THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED, OR THOSE LABOURING UNDER SOME TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING A STRAIN, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE STROUD DISTRICT, BY THE PROVISION OF WEEKLY RECORDED MEDIA.

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;

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.

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'.

Enable deaf children and their families to join together to enable mutual help and encouragement through meetings, social occasions and advice. Provide a holiday playscheme for deaf children and their siblings. Purchase certain useful equipment for hearing-impaired children not provided by social services. To ensure local hearing-impaired children have equal opportunities with their hearing peers.

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.

We are a small local charity run entirely by volunteers. We provide blind and partially sighted people with a monthly audio magazine. our aim is to provide a variety of general-interest magazine articles together with a selection of factual and news-related items. By making full use of the Royal Mail 'Articles for the Blind' service we are able to provide this facility without any charge.

To promote the relief of Deaf people and their families, and to create opportunities for Deaf individuals to come together as a society, fostering community and reducing isolation. To raise awareness and understanding among the general public about the challenges faced by the Deaf community.

To provide on memory sticks, audio tapes, CDs and audio files on a website, local news for the blind or partially sighted, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, Purbeck and East Dorset area.

The charity provides support for cancer patients and their families and organises meetings and talks (by surgeons, oncologists and Cancer related services) every 2nd Thursday of the month at Marie Curie Hospice Solihull, B91 2PQ. Counsellor's are available on hand if needed. Telephone support and up to date information is also offered.

Leicestershire Deaf Children's Society (LDCS) is affiliated to the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS). We provide support on all aspects of deafness including communication, education, technology, social and behavioural and cultural issues. Membership is free. We provide social activities consisting of day and weekend trips, Christmas celebrations and youth activities.

We provide digital sound recordings, of the best achievable quality, of edited extracts from the "Hampshire Chronicle" on a weekly basis, and articles and information of a wider interest as a monthly magazine, to blind or visually impaired people in Winchester and surrounding areas.

relief payments after deaths. direct payments to registered charities e.g Bike Active, Heart Beat E.A.C.H .also any appeals we might receive from the public.We also give to the the saint elizabeth hospice. We have also given to the East Suffolk Assocciation for the Blind Also to the make a wish charity. these monies are raised mainly in house but we do hold race night quiz nights.

Providing a weekly 'Talking Newspaper' on U.S.B memory sticks for local people with impaired sight who live in The Forest of Dean and surrounding areas.

Provides a free weekly audio recorded digest of local news, plus a regular magazine edition and a regular information bulletin, each distributed alternately every three weeks, to sight impaired and severely sight impaired listeners. Provided on usb memory stick, CD, via BWFB, Amazon Alexa and dialup telephone. A free usb memory stick player is also supplied where required

To provide persons who are either permanently or temporarily blind or partially-sighted or otherwise visually impaired, weekly recordings based on the news and other items from local newspapers or other information sources, serving Windsor, Maidenhead, Slough and surrounding areas. Recordings shall be distributed through the free post facilities available under Royal Mail regulations.

PROVIDE EVENTS TO HELP AND GIVE ADVISE TO PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS. ARRANGE DAYS OUT AND ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN. PROVIDE FUNDING FOR A PLAYGROUP FOR THE CHILDREN TO ATTEND EVERY FORTNIGHT.

Recording and distributing news from local newspapers and items of general interest to those who have a disability which prevents them from reading written text for themselves. This is mainly in Banbury and the surrounding Oxfordshire district, but we have listeners in Northants, Warwickshire and further afield where ex Banbury residents have requested.

To ensure that all blind or visually impaired ex-Service men and women throughout the United Kingdom who become our members are given the emotional and physical support required to enable them to lead independent lives, in spite of their blindness or visual impairment.

Raise money to buy equipment and sundries for Solihull Hospital solely for the purpose of the welfare of the patients. We also provide a trolley service to all the wards serving sweets confectionary and non alcoholic drinks to the patients. We also run golf days, summer fete, social functions and a sales in the hospital for the visitors on a weekly basis.

We produce an audio version of our local weekly newspaper, The Wallingford Herald, and other community magazines. Volunteers meet each week to read articles onto digital media which are distributed the next day to up to 40 people with visual or reading difficulties. Each registered listener is provided by the charity with an audio player to listen the recorded news.

To provide a minor repair service of NHS Clinic-supplied hearing aids for deaf people with mobility difficulties and to provide advice and help about managing deafness and information about other deaf support services where necessary.

Quizzes, swimming, trips away, long weekends and days, theatre, cinema, ten pin bowling, raffles, skittles, meals out. walks, exhibitions - usually tactile, social evenings with various tspeakers or activities provided

THE TALKING NEWSPAPER PROVIDES AN AUDIO VERSION OF LOCAL NEWS AND EVENTS TAKEN FROM THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER SOURCES TO PEOPLE WHO ARE PRINT-DISABLED IN THE BOROUGHS OF RICHMOND-UPON-THAMES AND HOUNSLOW AS A WEEKLY SERVICE. A SPECIAL MAGAZINE EDITION IS SENT OUT AT CHRISTMAS.