SALFORD TALKING NEWSMore About Us
Salford Talking News is a registered
charity offering a weekly newstape. It is staffed entirely
by volunteers. The service is entirely
free to listeners. If
anyone does not have a cassette recorder to listen to the
tape, we can provide one free of charge also.
We are over 80 volunteers! Some of us are readers who come
in on certain Thursday evenings to read onto the tape
articles gleaned from the local newspapers. In our Thursday
teams we also have editors (who organise the selection or
articles to be read) and technicians (who do the actual
recording onto tape). Others of us then use special
machines to make a large number of copies of the master
tape so produced, and then pack them in special pouches, to
be sent through the post to our listeners.
Yet others of us come into the office on certain days each
week to deal with the mail sacks of returning pouches and
to prepare everything in readiness for the next Thursday
evening. There’s a lot of other mail and paper-work to deal
with also! And there’s always the monthly magazine tape to
prepare and copy.
A management committee of volunteers, normally including at
least one visually disabled listener, has general oversight
of the organisation. There are also at least two external
trustees.
Would you like to meet some of us? Just click on the link
‘Here We Are’
and you’ll see us.
And to contact us call 736 8670
or email:
admin@salford-talking-news.org.uk.