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AND SON Professional Joiner & Carpenter Established over 30 years Complete Building Services 8 Charles Ashmore Road, Sheffield S8 8GJ Telephone 274 9671 Mobile 07946 752393 St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats email: office@stchads.org Church Offices: 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB Page 12 website: www.stchads.org Tel: (0114) 274 5086
For many years now I have been involved as a reader with Sheffield Talking News (STN) which is a small charity, producing, each week, over 500 audio cassettes and 100 CDs of local news for subscribers who are blind, visually impaired or unable to read a newspaper. Arrangements with the Sheffield Star, Sheffield Telegraph and Yorkshire Post allow STN to include the content of their publications without infringement of copyright. An occasional magazine is also produced throughout the year. There is no charge for the service and it is delivered free by Royal Mail. Every Monday an editor, who has been carefully reviewing the local papers, produces reading material to the correct length (one hour). By 6.30pm that evening a team of readers (two male, two female) supported by a recording technician, is ready to record. The recording, now computerised, is usually finished by 8.30pm that evening. On Tuesday morning, the duplication and despatch team (one of whom is St Chad’s member Vicky Harris), again through the help of a computerised system, copies and despatches the tapes and CDs to subscribers. These are sent in distinctive yellow pouches (which are returned by listeners after use). At the moment all of this activity is taking place in the temporary home of the Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind in Davy Markham, Darnall. STN is S T keenly waiting to return to the refurbished headquarters in Mappin Street. It is very satisfying for the many of us who volunteer for STN to get feedback from listeners who regard the weekly recording as a lifeline. We get a strong sense of putting something back into the community. The process is much modernised now and the organisation has leapt into the 21 st century. With this in mind, it is worth noting that many of the volunteers are OAPs (I am one of the youngest!) so STN is an excellent example of the third age encompassing new technology! The one thing we can’t change, I am afraid, is the news itself, but our editors strain themselves to ensure that we give a balanced flavour of what is going on in Sheffield. Occasionally we readers have to do a little last minute editing ourselves, when, for example, there are just too many stories of the cat who travelled six miles under the bonnet of a car, or when we feel that several stories of muggings and robbery on a cold November night are just a bit too much. We do have fun with some of the pronunciations too! If you know of someone who would benefit from this service, please telephone 0114 244 6164 or have a look at the website www.sheffieldtalking news.org.uk. David Manning St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats email: office@stchads.org Church Offices: 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB Page 13 website: www.stchads.org Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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