Welcome

Hello, and welcome to the website of Mid Essex Talking News, a registered charity run entirely by volunteers to provide a FREE weekly service of local news to the blind and partially sighted living in Braintree, Witham, Halstead, Dunmow and their surrounding villages.

Since 1981, volunteers have been recording stories from the editions of the Braintree and Witham Times,the Halstead Gazette and the Maldon and Burnham Standard. They now also add selected items from the Essex Chronicle and a number of other sources providing information services for the visually impaired to the mix.

None of the team receives any payment for their work and the charity receives no national or local government grants. All the money needed to run it is raised by the same volunteers who carry out the weekly production tasks through fundraising events.