Doncaster Talking Newspapers

Doncaster Talking Newspapers We provide audio broadcasts of local Doncaster news and other material for people who can't use print - all free of charge. Tel 07530526654 for details.

We are a local charity run on donations and staffed by volunteers. Every two weeks we provide 90 minute digests of local news in audio form and short stories from the local press archives. These are read by volunteers and are sent to our registered blind or partially sighted listeners on digital memory sticks. (We provide players for these free of charge.) Every other month we
also send out a loca

l magazine. We use Freepost. We also make all our material available on the web with links via The British Wireless
for the Blind Fund so people who
aren't able to use Freepost (not registered blind or partially sighted)


can listen.

18/10/2024

To listen to our latest news broadcast please click on the link below.

20/03/2024

We have just subscribed to Doncaster's Charity Hub for a year. We hope that this will produce tangible benefits for our charity and others.

Far left. Phil the chairman and Jan the secretary are looking for contacts at the latest Charity Hub meeting.
06/03/2024

Far left.

Phil the chairman and Jan the secretary are looking for contacts at the latest Charity Hub meeting.

Photographs from the Xmas recording of the Talking Newspaper. The gentleman in the festive waistcoat is the current Civi...
13/12/2022

Photographs from the Xmas recording of the Talking Newspaper.

The gentleman in the festive waistcoat is the current Civic Mayor, Cllr Ian Pearson who is blind.

The current trustees.
04/11/2022

The current trustees.

On Friday 4 November 2022 Faye Mackintosh, a news editor for Doncaster and District Talking Newspapers for the Blind, pr...
04/11/2022

On Friday 4 November 2022 Faye Mackintosh, a news editor for Doncaster and District Talking Newspapers for the Blind, presented a Name-a-Puppy donation cheque for £2,500.00 to local Guide Dogs for the Blind fund-raiser Martin, seen here with his guide dog Stewart in front of Sprotbrough Community Library, where the Talking Newspapers are recorded

Faye has been a volunteer at Talking Newspapers for decades and, in her honour, the new puppy will be named “Mackie”.

For company Stewart brought along Chelsea, a trainee member of the Guide Dog team.

Earlier the trustees had met at the library to hold the Annual General meeting.

05/05/2022

With Jan Jackson from Doncaster Talking Newspapers for the Blind, talking about growing up in Doncaster and my experiences as an MP.

For reasons best known to Mr Zuckerberg this FB page has been labelled "grey" and we have been told that unless we take ...
31/03/2022

For reasons best known to Mr Zuckerberg this FB page has been labelled "grey" and we have been told that unless we take action it will be deleted at the end of April 2022. We think that we can save the page by adding a new administrator but if this doesn't work the page will disappear. If you are one of our listeners and you use this page to listen to our broadcasts you will now have to do this either via Sprotbrough Community Library's website - links below - or via Alexa and the Talking Newspaper skill. Good luck.

NEWS http://www.bwbf.org.uk/player/?url=http://www.bwbf.org.uk/localtns/doncastertn/TOPD_playlist.pls

MAGAZINE http://www.bwbf.org.uk/player/?url=http://bwbf.org.uk/localtns/doncastermag/TOPD_playlist.pls

British Wireless for the Blind Fund web player brought to you by BWBF streamed service. Download the Talking Newspaper app for Android & iOS here - https://bwbf.org.uk/tn-app/download/

22/11/2021

We are looking for someone who is comfortable with computers to join our team as an audio engineer. Roughly once a month they will be required to manage a two hour Friday morning recording along with a colleague. All training will be provided. Voluntary job - no salary., just coffee and biscuits.

Lunch at Whitby's for the Talking Newspaper unpaid volunteers, without whom there would be no service.
10/09/2021

Lunch at Whitby's for the Talking Newspaper unpaid volunteers, without whom there would be no service.

Doncaster’s Talking Newspaper (DonTNB) relies heavily on the generosity of The Doncaster Free Press to provide local new...
05/09/2021

Doncaster’s Talking Newspaper (DonTNB) relies heavily on the generosity of The Doncaster Free Press to provide local news items which inform and entertain our blind and partially sighted listeners
For once, here is a nice item FROM the Talking Newspaper TO The Doncaster Free Press
Outside the “recording studio” at Sprotbrough Community Library, representatives from Guide Dogs for the Blind (including puppy-in-training Bracken) received a cheque to sponsor a guide dog from DonTNB. The sponsored puppy will be called Victor to remember Victor Hext who produced, fund-raised and generally supported DonTNB for over 30 years

Encl. Picture of the recording and the subsequent cheque presentation.

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