The Erewash Valley Talking News (incorporating the Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper)
for the Blind & Partially Sighted
Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper for the Sight Impaired has been operating since 1978 and has close to 200 listeners within their geographical area that has grown to include Ashbourne, Chesterfield & Matlock, which has encouraged us to change our name to Erewash Valley Talking News (for marketing purposes) to reflect our enlarged area, although we will remain Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper for legal and financial purposes.
What we offer;
Every three weeks a pouch containing a memory stick with 90+ recordings of 40 hours of listening pleasure of news, articles, stories, Quizzical Quiz, and RNIB Magazines is posted out to our listeners. There are also many Sight Impaired people who listen to us on this LETN website (the name of which is unchanged for reasons shown above) and many who listen to us on ALEXA.
To access our recordings on ALEXA, firstly enable the Talking Newspaper App, and then say, “Alexa, open talking newspaper” and when asked “which town” say “Long Eaton”
Our Talking News service has 46 volunteers (be they edtitors, readers, contributors, tech support and administrators), that includes the Acoustic Band “Off the Record” from Melbourne, pupils from Redhill Primary School in Ockbrook and the Just Write Creative Writing Group that meet at the Elephant Rooms in Draycott.
Volunteer editors produce a script of 60 stories from around our extended geographical area and beyond that are sent to our 20 readers who use a variety of devices to record those stories in their homes.
In addition, Articles, Stories and a Quizzical Quiz are provided by other volunteer contributors and others deal with all Administration of listeners register, pouches and memory sticks.
Our Tech team review all story recorded files to ensure our editions are of the highest quality; create our master memory sticks that are used to create memory sticks for listeners every three week.
We proud to be able to offer a “Window on the World” for our cherished Sight Impaired Listeners.
Contact Details
Contact name: Martin Sykes
Telephone: 07970 914930
