 Each and every week more than 100 visually impaired people in Braintree, Witham, Halstead, Dunmow and their surrounding villages receive audio tapes of local news FREE from the Mid Essex Talking News for the Blind.
They are produced by the registered charity’s team of dedicated volunteers who edit, read, record and copy the cassettes.
Each one has 90 minutes of local content because, while radio and television offers international, national and county news, it is only the local newspaper that tells you what is happening on your doorstep.
So, since 1981, volunteers have been taping news stories from the various editions of the Braintree and Witham Times,the Halstead Gazette and the Maldon and Burnham Standard.
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 events from dances to art shows and street collections to quizzes.
Their efforts mean everything is FREE for the listener. You have no membership fees to meet, postage to pay or cassettes to buy. If you qualify for our service and do not have a cassette player, we will even loan you one of those too!
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